Congratulations Beth & BLG Events

We are so proud! Beth Ross took out the Women in Landcare Award as part of the Victorian Landcare Awards last week at Marvel Stadium in Melbourne. Beth contributes so much to so many conservation groups across the Bellarine Peninsula. We are grateful for her work with the Landcare Nursery where she plays an essential role of supporting Nursery, and she's the Nursery Rep on the BLG Committee. She's also Vice President of Bellarine Catchment Network, Secretary of Friends of Ocean Grove Nature Reserve, and she contributes to other groups including Friends of Edwards Point. Beth's passion and dedication to the natural world inspires all of us who have the pleasure of weeding, propagating or spending time in nature with her. We value Beth's work educating the community through workshops and technology such as the local plant website, Nature Search and through iNaturalist. Beth's sense of humour, care for people and wise, earthy approach is gold. Congratulations, Beth, and thank-you, Blacky for your support of Beth which enables her to do what she does so well.

Calling All Artists

Let's celebrate our local wetlands and their life through art! Artists, find out more and submit an entry form by 23 August.

Landcare Nursery Plant Sale

Sun 28 July, 10am - 1pm, last Sunday of July Sale. Indigenous plants $3 each. Contact Nursery Manager Fiona Love: 0439 392 369 / landcarenursery@bigpond.com

Celebrate Landcare Week

Join Corangamite landcarers and the CCMA to celebrate Landcare Week with a book launch and movie "Just a Farmer" in Colac.

Wed 7 Aug 5:30pm for 6pm start 'Small Blocks Big Dreams' Healthy Hectares Landholder Guide Launch
Pick up your free copy of this beautiful and informative guide to land management. Colac Otway Performing Arts and Cultural Centre Registration here

And afterwards for the movie 'Just a Farmer' at 7:15pm. Register via QR code.

The Rabbit Sweep

Wed August 14, Marcus Hill Hall, 6.30pm An important discussion session hosted by Bellarine Landcare Group

For more than a hundred years, Victorians have been battling invasive animals. There is a high cost associated with feral animals including cats, pigs, foxes, rabbits and now deer. We are all affected - our ambiance is altered, our health-promoting environment is not as it should be, agriculture has extra costs, and we are losing indigenous flora and fauna.

Just why do we need to ‘deal with’ invasive species, and why is it so hard to deal with them? What do we need to do and why? Are there things we are not seeing in the landscape that can make a difference? Who needs to be involved in managing the environment?

You are invited to join us as we work our way through a very good presentation by Euan Ritchie, Professor of Wildlife Conservation and Ecology, discussing what he thinks are important things to understand from the scientific perspective. He joins others in warning us that success in one aspect can mean unwanted consequences in another.

We will have panelists leading the discussion and we will encourage you to offer your perspective and critique our plans and activities with respect to invasive species.

6.30 pm, August 14, 2024, Marcus Hill Hall, corner Bellarine Highway & Banks Road. Make it a date! There will be tea and coffee and some snacks.

Please bring your neighbours, friends, anyone who is related to the special landscape of the Bellarine Peninsula.

Stock Sense Livestock Workshop

Our local Drysdale vet, Dr Will Maginness will lead an information packed workshop suited to owners of all farm sizes and all types of livestock. All welcome.

Mannerim Memorial Indigenous Garden

Sun 18 Aug, 10am - 11:30am Join the Friends' Working Bee at the Mannerim Memorial Indigenous Garden,

Swan Bay Rd next to the Bellarine Rail Trail. All welcome. BYO gloves. Join us here.

Friends of the Basin / Belchers Reserve, Drysdale

Tues 27 Aug, 10am - 12noon. Meet at the Nursery, Belchers Rd. We will assist CoGG Natural Reserves Team with the regeneration of these Reserves. Let us know you'd like to join the Group here.

Geelong Nature Stewards

Learn how to understand the natural world by joining this 10 week part time course, starting 31 August. Information / registration here

Springdale Environment Group Talk

And a few other things...

Biolinks Alliance 'Rewilding Central Victoria Symposium' 13 – 14 September, Latrobe University, Bendigo.
And check out Biolinks Alliance webinars including 'Large Old Hero Trees and their life-Sustaining Hollows'

BLG is a member group of the Geelong Field Naturalist Club which means you take a deep dive into all kinds of aspects of nature by joining in with their activities

So many local groups doing inspiring work, caring for the Bellarine: Bellarine & Geelong Environmental Volunteering Calendar

For further information
Sophie Small Bellarine Landcare Facilitator, ph 0457 333 727 / facilitator@bellarinelandcare.org.au

Bellarine Landcare Group Inc.
865 Swan Bay Road, Mannerim 3222
PO Box 431, Drysdale, 3222
W: www.bellarinelandcare.org.au

We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which we work, the Wadawurrung people, and pay our respects to their Elders, past, present and future.

BLG is supported through the Victorian Landcare Facilitator Program

Bellarine Landcare Monthly Update August 2024