MP Landcare

Walking tour - Buckleys Reserve
2019-11-24 10:00 - 11:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | VIC
Join your local Landcare Group for a stroll around some of the lovely reserves in our neighborhood. Learn more about the history of the area and the indigenous flora and fauna.

We suggest you wear sturdy shoes, long pants and shirt and hat. Please bring your own water bottle and if you wish to stay and chat after the walk BYO cuppa (thermos), cake supplied.
Walks will take around an hour, they are not difficult but please consider the weather of the day. Friends are most welcome.
Location provided upon registration.

Sheepwash Creek Catchment Landcare working bee Arthurs Seat
2019-11-24 09:30 - 11:30 | VIC
Hi everyone,
Sheepwash Creek Catchment Landcare working bee
When: Sunday 24th November. 9:30-11:30
Meet 490 Arthurs Seat Rd and walk down.
RSVP essential to mdelacoeur@gmail.com

Working Bee - Koala Reserve, Somers.
2019-11-23 10:00 - 13:00 | VIC

Grazing Management for Horse and Land Health
2019-10-19 13:00 - 17:00 | 80 Valley View Lane, Main Ridge VIC, 80 Valley View Lane, Main Ridge, VIC, 3928, Australia
Stephanie Orive, of Holistic Equine Grazing specialises in grazing management for horses and beef cattle.
In this four-hour interactive workshop, Stephanie will cover:
-How to grow MORE, horse safe grass
-Preventing laminitis and other pasture-related metabolic diseases
-Using animal management to control weeds (no herbicides!)
-Reducing worm and parasite burden
-Reducing feed and supplement costs
-Reducing farm labour such as poo picking, slashing, weeding
-Mud, dust and erosion control
Please register using Evenbrite and pay $40 pp online using your surname as a reference
MP Equine Landcare Group BSB: 633 000 Account No. 151 35 6722

Working bee Merricks North
2019-10-19 10:00 - 13:00 | VIC
Helping Michele on her property, planting out native grasses.
10am start to 1 ish.
Michele Sabto
m. +61 (0)402 459009

+61 (0)3 5989 7391
e.msabto@optusnet.com.au

7 Kentucky Rd
Merricks North

Tootgarook wetlands walk
2019-09-23 10:00 - 12:00 | VIC
Boneo Park,
312 Boneo Rd, Boneo.

Indigenous nursery workshop/tour, Bittern
2019-09-21 10:00 - 13:00 | VIC
Peninsula Bushworks Indigenous Nursery
16 Hunts Road Bittern
A great opportunity to learn about seed collection, propagation and choosing the right plants for the local areas.
10am cuppa, 10.30 start.
Finish with lunch.

Composting Workshop
2019-09-08 10:30 - 14:30 | 9 Century Drive, Mt Martha VIC Australia, 9 Century Drive, Mt Martha, VIC, Australia
Come and join Balcombe Moorooduc Landcare members to exchange learning with Soil Health specialist and seasoned composter Gerhard Grasser.
Learn about the new NPK of soil, composting and compost tea brewing. Using compost microbes, you can build soil carbon and soil health for improved farm and home garden outcomes. Understand and undertake a variety of composting techniques for rejuvenating your soil for improved productivity, quality and health of plants and animals.
$30 per person. Please bring cash or cheque on the day.

Cool burn & fire biodiversity talk
2019-08-11 13:30 - 16:00 | 5 Firth Rd, Morooduc VIC, 5 Firth Rd, Moorooduc, VIC, 3933
Balcombe & Moorooduc Landcare Group invites you to a Cool burn working bee & fire & biodiversity talk.
Come and join our Landcare members and hear from a CFA speaker about fire and its benefits for biodiversity. Learn about how to conduct a cool burn and the reasoning behind this ancient land management tool at a practical working bee in Moorooduc.
Come for the talk, working bee and stay for a cuppa afterwards.
Join B&ML Group members at or Treasurer Lee’s rural Moorooduc property and learn how cool burning promotes growth of indigenous species and controls invasive weeds with practical demonstrations and group participation. Listen to an experienced CFA member give a talk about how important fire can be to biodiversity. Wear comfy clothes and closed toe sturdy shoes and roll up your sleeves and meet your fellow Landcare neighbours.We invite you to stay after the working bee for light refreshments.
This event is free to members of Balcombe & Moorooduc Landcare and interested locals.
RSVP to this FB page or text me on 0429 806 888

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Help restore Koala habitat in Main Ridge
2019-08-04 09:30 - 12:30 | Macphersons Lane, Main Ridge, Cnr Baldrys & Macphersons Lane, Main Ridge, VIC, 3928, Australia
HELP WANTED!
WORKING BEE TO RESTORE KOALA HABITAT along MACPHERSONS LANE MAIN RIDGE
9.30 –12.30 SUNDAY 4 AUGUST
Enquiries:
Michelle Stacey on 0409 031 108 or email: admin@wildman.net.au Main Creek Catchment Landcare Group
ALL WELCOME
REMOVING TREE GUARDS, PLANTING & RUBBISH REMOVAL.
Wear strong boots, gloves, weather appropriate clothing.
Park on cnr Baldrys Road
& Macphersons Lane,
Main Ridge.
Melways Map 171, F1

Reptiles of Victoria Presentation
2019-08-02 19:00 - 20:30 | 90 besgrove Street, Rosebud, MP Shire offices, 90 Besgrove Street, Rosebud, VIC, 3939, Australia
Mornington Peninsula Shire in conjunction with Friends of Chinamans Creek invite you to:
An illustrated presentation by Peter Robertson.
Where: Mornington Peninsula Shire Office– 90 Besgrove Street, Rosebud
When: Friday 2nd August 2019
Time: 7:00pm
Cost: Gold coin
Register: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/an-illustrated-presentation-by-peter-robertson-tickets63542546467
All profits raised will go towards the protection of the endangered Swamp Skink and conservation works
at the Boneo Primary School Wetlands Education Centre.
Norman Mckinlay
03 59885616
swampskink@gmail.com
Discounted copies of Peters “Reptiles of Victoria” will be available to purchase
Peter Robertson presentation_Fullpage

National Tree Day - July 28, 2019
2019-07-28 09:30 - 13:30 | 2 Gibb Rd, Red Hill, 2 Gibb Rd, Red Hill, 3937
July 28, 2019 National Tree Day – Dunns Creek Biolink
at “Sussex Farm” 2 Gibb Rd, Red Hill (off Dunns Creek Rd) 9.00am for a 9.30am start – bbq lunch to follow.
Flyer: https://www.dropbox.com/s/xphaewjuioom0in/National%20Tree%20Day%20Flyer%2028%20July%202019.pdf?dl=0
Please join in !
