From October through to autumn we will be back at the Lancefield Farmers Market. We are able to give advice on a range of land care matters. We also sell booklets and nest boxes and can chat to you about joining our Landcare group or Wildlife Gardens, which operates under our umbrella. At the market on Saturday, October 25 we will be joined by Cameron O'Mara from the Biolinks Alliance. He will be on hand to give advice to landholders. We will also give away two indigenous plants to market goers to encourage residents to attract pollinators to their garden. Examples include, the long flowering swamp everlasting daisies (pictured) and common everlasting daisies.

On Saturday, September 13 we returned to Dowie Court to continue our part in rehabilitating Five Mile Creek in Romsey. Over the last three years the landholders have worked with Melbourne Water to remove the willows and replace them with indigenous trees, shrubs and grasses. On Saturday we added another 500 mainly grasses (poa and lomandra) to the site. We planted the Tee trees in the photo (below left) during the first stage in 2023.

October 

19-10-25   Lancefield Show

25-10-25  Lancefield Farmers Market

29-10-25   Planting at Bolinda PS  with students/staff

29-10-25   Bring &Brag -informal gathering of local Landcare and environment                           groups. 6:00 pm Clarkefield Cricket pavilion Station St

31-10-25  working bee   Lancefield Park planting St Mary’s PS and Lancefield PS. 

November

10-11-25    meeting            7:30 - 9:00 Lancefield Mechanics Institute

13-11-25    working bee to finish planting on eastern side of Lancefield Park from 31/10 and clean up Anniversay Garden.

20-11-25   End of Year Celebration Lost Watering Hole

22-11-25  Lancefield Farmers Market

29-11-25   Deep Creek Biolink drop in Information Session Lancefield Mechanics                       Hall 9:00 - midday

30-11-25   Seed Collection Workshop

In the Lancefield Mechanics Hall on Saturday, July 5 a Bush Dance was held with over 100 people in attendance. We worked with the host, Willowmavin Landcare to organize the dance which was sold out a couple of days prior. It was pleasing to see quite a few of our members enjoying the evening. We are currently conducting a review and assessing feedback. We hope that we can do it again next year. A big thank you to Macedon Ranges Shire Council, The Lost Watering Hole and Coles in Romsey for their support.

We are one of 110 groups that participate in Keep Australia Beautiful's Adopt A Roadside program. Twice a year we conduct a working bee to clean up along the Lancefield-Kilmore Rd from the service station in Lancefield to Doggetts Bridge.

We dedicated our July working bee to cleaning up along Lancefield-Kilmore Rd. With 10 hardworking participants we also managed to clean up a section of Grahams Rd. The trailer load of trash is evidence of the unfortunate need to clean up along our roads! With more help we can do even more!

Upper Deep Creek Landcare Network employs a Junior Landcare facilitator, Emma Stevens, whose primary whose primary role is to connect schools, and youth groups, and provide a link to the landcare community when extra support and encouragement (e.g Schools Tree Planting Day) is required. Strengthening and supporting these relationships is what helps to keep the the Landcare movement thriving. For example, Romsey Primary School recently finished a 5 year planting project in an area along the school boundary fence that provides habitat for pollinators. The project was completed with the help of the Deep Creek Landcare Group and and coordinated by the Junior Landcare Facilitator. Plant selection was guided by the Junior Landcare Learning Centre Biodiversity module. The UDCLN Junior Facilitator is available for 1 day per week and supports schools that fall within the UDCLN area. 

In August/September we have a number of working bees coming up with the local schools. To attend the working bee members of the public require a current Working With Children Card.