This Sunday, come help us celebrate another year of our landcare good works with several activities followed by lunch. The weather forecast is perfect: a dry day, not too hot (a top temperature of 19°C). We’ll be helping manage the lower parts of Forest and Barkers creeks where they join to form Campbells Creek. Our local …
December 2025 end of year celebration, working bee and free BBQ Read More »
Activity: More fun in the creek and nearby. NOTE different start time! Weather forecast: 19° - 25°C, mostly sunny, light SSE winds Description: Today we’ll return to the area near Princess Street where Ranters Gully runs into the creek. Here’s photo of what it used to look like before we first intervened in the 2000s. …
All welcome. Agenda TBC.
Come and help to clean up rubbish along the creeks and trails, followed by a social morning tea. Meet: We’ll meet here at the bus shelter next to Winters Flat Footbridge, Johnstone Street (Midland Highway), Castlemaine, and then spread out to various locations to gather rubbish and return to Winters Flat. Early Start: We’ll start …
Activity: Propagating tussock grasses. Description: Today we’ll be propagating a few thousand more tussock grasses for use in our revegetation along the creek. Growing our own saves us about $7,000.00 in purchase costs. You’ll have some fun and learn how easy (and inexpensive!) it is to grow these plants from seed. Where: 51 Main Road, Campbells …
Agenda motions to be put to vote: 1. That the Friends of Campbells Creek seeks to become an incorporated association under the name “Friends of Campbells Creek Inc.” 2. That the Friends of Campbells Creek secretary (Kya Moore) is authorised to incorporate the association, with President (Rob Law) as delegate. 3. That the Friends of Campbells Creek adopt the …
Every year some members of the Friends collect seed for the nurseries to grow our plants, and for direct seeding. This time we’ll collect from shrubs including Hakea decurrens, and if they haven’t yet shed their seed, Sweet Bursaria (food for the Eltham Copper Butterfly), Silky Tea-tree and Burgan. When: 10:00 a.m. Tuesday the 7th …
Big clean up at Fords Road, Campbells Creek As part of our platypus focused project, we plan to revegetate a section of Campbells Creek that few of us have ever visited. The creek here is a wide and long pool, probably quite deep. Used for farming for many decades, the adjoining parcel of public land is …
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Nationally endangered Eltham Copper Butterfly in Campbells Creek? Yes, and some populations are only about 2 km from where we’re expanding its potential habitat on Creekside public land. Activity: planting food plant seedlings for Eltham Copper Butterfly (ECB) Description: Connecting Country has funded us to establish one of the butterfly’s essential requirements: the Sweet Bursaria (Bursaria spinosa) plant. The …
May 2026 working bee for the Eltham Copper Butterfly Read More »
Activity: Planting to link Habitat Description: During the next few months we need to plant over 4,000 tubestock along upper Campbells Creek and Lower Forest Creek as part of the Forest Creek Revitalisation project. We're linking this with similar habitat upstream which the North Central CMA and Castlemaine Landcare are establishing, and downstream with our PlatyPatch …
All welcome. Agenda & Details to be confirmed
