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Monthly Meeting: Friday 9th May 2025, 7.30pm, Uniting Church Fellowship Room, Lyttleton St.

Graham is President of Turtles Australia Inc. A retired train driver, he has been devoted to freshwater turtle conservation for around 15 years. His talk will cover the three species of freshwater turtles we have in Victoria and will outline some of the conservation work Turtles Australia is engaged in. To allow attendees to get […]

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Speaker: Graham Stockfeld - "Talking turtles"

Excursion: Saturday 10th May 2025, 1.30pm, “Photographing flowers, grasses and insects for effective iNaturalist identification”, Red White and Blue Mine

An opportunity to join with expert field naturalists to gain experience in photographing fauna and flora species including key characteristics to maximise the likelihood of getting your observations identified from photos submitted to iNaturalist. Whether you prefer to use a smart phone, a point and shoot digital camera or a digital SLR camera with interchangeable

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Leader: Jill Williams

Roadside Clean-up: Monday 12th May 2025, 9am

Join us for a pleasant walk along some interesting roadside bush as we check our section of the Pyrenees Highway. This will be the second of our four clean-ups for the year. Meet: 9am near Tait’s Decorative Iron, corner of Willy Milly Rd and Pyrenees Highway, Castlemaine. Bring: Gloves, water, sturdy footwear. Garbage bags and

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Time to check our stretch of the Pyrenees Highway!

Monthly Meeting: Friday 11th April, 7.30pm, Uniting Church Fellowship Room, Lyttleton St.

Steve calls himself a “mothylated spirit”, meaning he studies moths. He records moths on a light sheet every night at home and rears moths from their eggs. These activities help him answer questions like: What is there? What and where is it feeding? What and where is it at each stage in its life cycle?

Monthly Meeting: Friday 11th April, 7.30pm, Uniting Church Fellowship Room, Lyttleton St. Read More »

Speaker: Steve Williams, “Mysteries of the Life Cycles of Moths”

Excursion – Saturday April 12th, 1.30pm, “Forest Creek Restoration by Castlemaine Landcare Group”

This excursion is rescheduled from March due to the high temperature. Christine will take us for a walk along the Great Dividing Trail path beside Forest Creek (now named Leanganook Track) to see first-hand the remarkable transformation of a gorse-infested, tree-less valley to a productive native riparian strip following over 20 years of work by

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Leader: Christine Kilmartin (President, Castlemaine Landcare Group)

AGM and Monthly Meeting: 7.30 pm, Friday 14th March, 2025, Uniting Church Fellowship Room, Lyttleton St.

The 2025 AGM will be held before the usual monthly meeting on 14th March. Meeting papers are available from the following links:2025 AGM Agenda and Minutes of the 2024 AGMPresident’s Report and Financial Report 2024/25CFNC Committee Nomination form All positions on the committee will be open, so you are strongly encouraged to consider joining the

AGM and Monthly Meeting: 7.30 pm, Friday 14th March, 2025, Uniting Church Fellowship Room, Lyttleton St. Read More »

Speaker: Christine Kilmartin (President, Castlemaine Landcare Group) Learnings and leanings from two decades of Landcare