Other Activities

Come along and help do our bit for the community.  More hands, quicker work.  And you never know what treasure you might find! Meet: 9am near Tait’s Decorative Iron, corner of Willy Milly Rd and Pyrenees Highway, Castlemaine.   Bring: Gloves, water, sturdy footwear. Garbage bags and safety vests supplied. Contact: Geoff Harris (mob 0418 […]

Join us for another beautiful Wildflower Wander this week.  We will see the rare Goldfields Grevillea (Grevillea dryophylla), a large bank of the locally rare Dusty Miller (Spyridium parvifolium) as well as many other wildflowers including native orchids. Meet: in the Car Park north of the Railway Goods Shed in Kennedy St ready to leave

A beautiful walk circling up the Monk will be our next Wednesday Wildflower Wander. We will enjoy those wildflowers that enjoy a higher terrain, and maybe even see some stunning spiders! Meet: in the Car Park north of the Railway Goods Shed in Kennedy St ready to leave at 4 pm, returning by about 5.30

Our September Wednesday Wildflower Wanders will continue this week with a visit to the Muckleford Forest.  In addition to a magnificent show of different wildflowers including several orchids, we hope to see the rare Grevillea micrantha. Meet: in the Car Park north of the Railway Goods Shed in Kennedy St ready to leave at 4

During September each year, we arrange late afternoon excursions on Wednesdays to nearby sites to enjoy the wonderful wildflower show in our local Box-Ironbark woodlands. Our first walk for the season will be a loop walk in Kalimna Park in an area that is well known for its wildflowers. Other walks in this series will

Connecting Country have teamed up with Barkers Creek Landcare & Wildlife Group, Balangara Films, BirdLife Castlemaine and the Theatre Royal for a special fundraising event featuring the award-winning film The Message of the Lyrebird, along with live music and conversations with local Landcarers and ecologists. All proceeds from tickets sales to this event will go

After a wonderfully successful 2023 effort Castlemaine Field Naturalists Club is again hosting the Great Southern Bioblitz for the Castlemaine region. GSB24 runs from September 20th to 23rd 2024 with citizen scientists from across the Southern Hemisphere photographing and audio recording as many living species as possible within their regions.  Join us to help showcase

Our club has been allocated a section of the Pyrenees Highway to keep clean, west of Castlemaine from the top of McKenzie’s Hill to Woodman’s Road. We do this four times a year. It is always a pleasant walk along some interesting roadside bush. Come along and help do our bit for the community.  Meet:

The second South East Australian Naturalists’ Association (SEANA) camp for this year will be held from Friday 25th – Sunday 27th October in Marysville.  This is an excellent chance to meet fellow naturalists from around SE Australia and explore a new region under the guidance of local experts.  The Ringwood FNC is hosting this camp

Aquatic ecologist, Dr Peter Rose, from the North Central Catchment Management Authority, will explain this plan at the AGM of Castlemaine Landcare Group (CLG).  CLG invite anyone interested to come along to the Castlemaine Community House (30 Templeton St) on Wednesday 22 May at 7.30pm to listen and enjoy the hospitality. Peter will describe the