Our AGM will be held on Wednesday 13 May at 7.30pm at Castlemaine Community House. Click here to see the details including the Agenda and Reports. The formalities will be pretty brief and we have a great guest speaker – Karl Just will talk about “A Special Frog: The Ecology of the Bibron’s Toadlet”.
ONGOING FOR 2026
Our own immediate response includes to keep working along our creek-lines – for us, Forest and Moonlight Creeks – under the grant received from the Federal Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW). Together with our partners, we have completed the first year of the grant and will build on that until February 2028 as we work with nature to achieve quality improvements along our waterways.
Our usual working bee days will remain the 2nd and 4th Sundays of the month with a change or two to get around other events. We will send details of upcoming working bees well prior to each date and encourage you to attend when you can because every stage of a working year – including the much-unloved maintenance – requires lots of assistance and allows good chats, a swig of quality coffee and a chomp on a delicious savoury scone (or BYO).
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The purpose of our group is to enhance the natural environment of Castlemaine and Mount Alexander Shire and increase community enjoyment of our natural assets. We aim to restore the urban waterways of Forest and Moonlight creeks, to provide a healthy aquatic environment and create thriving habitats for local flora and fauna. We have regular working bees to prepare for planting and manage weeds. Depending upon annual conditions, we plant from late autumn to early spring. We plant indigenous species from local native plant nurseries with a view to survival under a changing climate.
We would like some more committee members – if you are interested please email or ring Christine on 0418 325 350.
Castlemaine Landcare Group 