20 July 2014 – Invitation to Connecting Country planting day

Posted on 9 July, 2014 by Connecting Country

You are warmly invited to join Connecting Country’s second community planting day for 2014. The first of these was a great success (click here for info about the first planting day). These planting days are a great way to meet other local people involved in Connecting Country while also creating valuable habitat linkages for native wildlife such as the threatened Brush-tailed Phascogale.

This second community planting day will be on the Sunday 20 July 2014. We will be providing a free bus ride to a beautiful property in Elphinstone. The bus will depart from Castlemaine outside the Ray Bradfield room in the Maxi IGA car-park at 9am for a 9:15am departure. Pick-up from outside the Elphinstone pub can also be arranged.

After the planting and over a BBQ lunch, the landholder will give a talk about the property and the work he is doing with Connecting Country. Jarrod Coote from Connecting Country will then talk about the property in the context of broader biodiversity issues. We will be returning to Castlemaine (via Elphinstone) by bus, arriving back at 1:30pm.

Please RSVP by Thursday 17th of July to bonnie@connectingcountry.org.au to secure a place on the bus, and for further details about the day.

If you miss this planting day, or want to get involved in more of them, National Tree Day is on Sunday 27 July. Many local groups have planting events on this day. One of these is being held at Powlett Hill (click here) and others will be publicised here over the next week or two.