Re-Vamp Fords Creek - Volunteer Program
Join our new monthly volunteer program, Re-Vamp Fords Creek! Whether you come to one session or all of them, you’ll be part of a casual, feel-good morning helping to care for this special local waterway.
Willow Control Workshop
Learn how to manage willows on your property. Join our free workshop at Gonzaga Reserve on the Broken River. 10am–1pm. Tea & coffee provided.
Feeding Livestock in Dry Times
Join Agricultural Consultant Lisa Warn for a practical half-day workshop on managing livestock nutrition in dry conditions.
Women in Ag: Animal Health in Dry Times
Up2Us’ Women in Ag presents Animal Health in Dry Times with Dr Anna Manning.
Garden from the Ground Up: Soil Health & Urban Food Growing
Join award-winning horticulturist Craig Castree for a morning of practical, inspiring workshops that will transform the way you think about gardening and sustainability.
Re-Vamp Fords Creek - Volunteer Program
Join our new monthly volunteer program, Re-Vamp Fords Creek! Whether you come to one session or all of them, you’ll be part of a casual, feel-good morning helping to care for this special local waterway.
Upper Broken River Community Planting - Gonzaga Reserve
Come along for a social morning of planting at Gonzaga Reserve in Barwite. Help the Upper Broken Landcare group to plant shrubs and small trees followed by tea and coffee.
Farm chemical and pest animal baiting courses
Up2Us Landcare is offering a two-part, subsidised training course designed specifically for landholders wanting to safely and effectively manage pest plants and animals using agricultural chemicals and baits.
Rail Trail Planting Day
Join the Friends of the Great Victorian Rail Trail for a community planting day to help restore native habitat along the trail at Maindample.
Nocturnal Neighbours
Join us for an exciting series of spotlighting events to discover Mansfield’s nocturnal wildlife! We will be on the lookout for arboreal mammals as we explore local habitats after dark.
Market Outlook for Cattle and Sheep Producers
Join us for an evening with Simon Quilty, a Churchill Fellow with over 35 years’ experience in the meat and livestock sector.
Re-Vamp Fords Creek - Volunteer Program
Join our new monthly volunteer program, Re-Vamp Fords Creek! Whether you come to one session or all of them, you’ll be part of a casual, feel-good morning helping to care for this special local waterway.
National Tree Day
Come help Mansfield Shire Council and Up2Us Landcare Alliance for National Tree Day.
Soil Biology & Climate Resilience Field Day
Delatite Landcare Group would like to invite you to this interactive field day as we explore how understanding soil biology and maintaining living ground cover can transform your farm into a cooler, more productive, and resilient agricultural system.
Subsidised Stock Proof Tree Guards
Up2Us Landcare Alliance is offering a limited number of stock proof tree guards and indigenous eucalypt seedlings at a subsidised rate of $32 each.
Mushroom Encounters
This interactive workshop includes an overview of the major fungal groups, the basics of identification, ecology and history of fungi. We will then partake in an exciting foray to search for species of interest. Fungal specimens from the local area will be displayed and examined.
Feral Rabbit Control Workshop
To address increasing rabbit presence, Up2Us Landcare Alliance is hosting an informative field day on Sunday, 11th May in Bonnie Doon. The event will feature guest speaker Sam Armstrong, Vertebrate Pest officer from Ag Vic, who will discuss the rabbit lifecycle, their environmental impacts, and best practice control methods.
Discover the fascinating world of native bees & pollinators!
Join Karen Retra, naturalist and Citizen Scientist, for an insightful presentation followed by a walk-and-talk exploring the incredible diversity of native bees and other beneficial insects. Learn how these vital pollinators support our environment and practical ways to attract them to your garden.
Frog Pond Creation Workshop
Discover how to create a frog-friendly oasis in your own backyard!
Join Up2US and David DeAngelis (zoological consultant) for a hands-on demonstration on designing and building a backyard frog pond. Learn simple steps to attract frogs and support local biodiversity while enjoying the benefits of natural pest control and a vibrant, lively garden. Perfect for backyard enthusiasts or anyone curious about our amazing amphibian friends!
Extension Training with Landcare 2025
Ideal for young adults who are currently studying or recently graduated from Agriculture or Natural Resource Management (NRM) who would benefit from extension training in drought preparedness and recovery.
Native Pasture Identification and Management
Join us and Dr Meredith Mitchell for a day of native pasture ID and management. Topics covered include:
Native grass identification
Resilience of native grasses to drought
management of native pastures, particularly during droughts
The day will begin at MACE, followed by a site visit in Mansfield. Lunch and morning tea will be provided.
Ecological Monitoring on Farms - Dam Enhancements
Join Angelina Seigrist from Sustainable Farms and learn about the benefits of why's and how's of enhancing farm dams for increased production and biodiversity.
Explore a local beef farm and see where the knowledge has been put into practice.
Angelina will discuss techniques for monitoring and assessing dams to best understand your dam health and how it can be improved for the benefit of livestock and water retention on farm.
Follow the link to register for this event. For further information contact Up2Us at landcare2@up2us.org.au or call 57791593
Feral Pig Control Workshop - MANSFIELD SHOWGROUNDS
Have you got feral pigs accessing your property?
Come along to this informative session and hear how you can control feral pigs on your property.
DATE: October 28th 2024
TIME: 10am-2:30pm
LOCATION: Mansfield Showgrounds
COST: FREE
Hear from guest speakers on:
- Biosecurity risks
- Best practice control methods
- Pig traps and demonstrations
- Opportunities for landholder support to control and monitor
- The use of Feralscan
- Feral pig biology
- Speak to Invasive species staff from DEECA about your pest pig issues
The session is free, with lunch provided.
This project is supported by the Victorian Government through the Agriculture Victoria Partnership Against Pests Program.
Delatite Landcare's Annual Wildflower Walk
Delatite Landcare Group invite you to a spring wildflower walk with local botanist Sue Ablitt from North East Ecology.
Don’t miss this opportunity to explore our lovely part of the world and discover native wildflowers right on your doorstep.
BYO Picnic Lunch!
Location to be announced. Registrations essential.
Feral Rabbit Control Workshop
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED! Stay tuned for new date.
Fun Fact; a pair of rabbits can turn into over 180 rabbits in just 18 months!
Come along to this FREE workshop to understand how you can reduce Rabbits and their impacts on your property.
Guest speaker, Neil Devanny, Deputy Chair of the Victorian Rabbit Action Network will guide participants through:
- Rabbit lifecycle
- Rabbit impacts
- Best practice control methods
- Practical demonstration on rabbit control
DATE: Postponed
TIME:
COST: FREE
LOCATION: TBA
Agriculture Chemical Training
Up2Us Landcare Alliance, along with Go TAFE is offering residents in Mansfield Shire the opportunity to take part in a 2-day training course, Agricultural Chemical Skill Set - AHCSS00074.
The course will be delivered in Mansfield. Upon completion of the course Landcare members will be eligible to be reimbursed course costs and materials.
Get in quick, strictly limited to 17 people!
Click HERE to register your interest in attending this subsidised and nationally accredited training course.
For further information contact the Up2US office on 57791593 or email landcare2@up2us.org.au
Paterson's Curse Control Workshop
Paterson's Curse is an extremely widespread crop and pasture weed throughout the Mansfield District.
Come along to this FREE workshop to understand how you can reduce the prevalence of Paterson’s Curse on your property.
The workshop will cover Pasture management
Herbicide use and timing
Available Biocontrol’s
DATE: Sunday 15th September
TIME: 10:00 - 12:00PM
COST: FREE
LOCATION: TBA
Click HERE to register to attend this event
Upper Broken Community Planting Session
The Upper Broken Landcare group invites you to join them for a morning of tree planting at Gonzaga Reserve in Barwite.
Date: Sunday September 1st 2024
Time: 9am-11am
Location: Gonzaga Reserve, Old Tolmie Road, Barwite (just before the bridge at the Broken River.
For more information contact Rhiannon at landcare2@up2us.org.au or 57791593
Register here:
Rehydrating Farm Landscapes with David Hardwick
Join us for this workshop to explore strategies to rehydrate farm landscapes with David Hardwick!
David’s passion is agroecology and empowering farmers with knowledge and skills that make a difference. He has over 20 years’ experience in rural landscapes, farming and food systems. He develops and leads Soil Land Food's extension and consulting project delivery across Australia.
David has had a wide-ranging career in both management and technical roles, including Landcare extension, revegetation, agronomy, soils, agribusiness, biofertiliser research and development and manufacturing, organics, training, and consulting positions.
He has worked on numerous soil and regenerative agriculture project across Australia. helped develop learning resources and deliver training to landholders in landscape rehydration and the rural landscape restoration at the Mulloon Institute in NSW.
This introductory workshop introduces the basics of the water cycle in rural landscapes and the science behind landscape rehydration.
Farm hydrology: the water cycle on your property
Surface and groundwater systems
How properties, catchments, regions and the planet are all connected by water & energy
Healthy and unhealthy water cycles
The basics of landscape rehydration
The range of strategies for rehydrating your farm’s landscape
Building resilient landscapes
Seasonal Outlook and Hydrological Data with Dale Grey
Join Dale Grey, Seasonal Risk Agronomist, for a presentation on seasonal climate.
Dale Grey has worked with Agriculture Victoria for 29 years in crop and pasture agronomy, climate and weather. He is well known for his Fast Break newsletters and Very Fast Break climate updates on YouTube in which he delivers easy to understand seasonal interpretations of climate models.
Dale will focus on the current seasonal climate outlook for Victoria, climate driver activity and soil moisture.
When: Friday 16 August 2024
Time: 10:00am-12:00pm
Where: MACE, 145/147 High St, Mansfield.
Cost: Free. Morning tea provided.
Register below:
Mansfield Community Vertebrate Pest Control Group - Public meeting
Community feral pig control program in the Mansfield District
The State-wide Invasive Species Program at the Department of Energy, Environment, and Climate Action (DEECA) in partnership with Up2Us Landcare Alliance is starting a new feral pig program in your area. The program aims to support community efforts, and is based on similar pest animal programs across Gippsland and the North-East.
What’s next…
A community meeting will be held at 6:00pm on Thursday 15th August at the Delatite Hotel in Mansfield to provide further information and detail around the program and what you can get out of it. We will follow-up with training and provision of traps with a process in place for trap collection.
Click HERE to register for this FREE event.
For further information:
Mick Freeman - DEECA State-wide Invasive Species
Email - Michael.freeman@deeca.vic.gov.au
Phone - 0477358061
Rhiannon Quigley - Up2Us Landcare Alliance
Email - landcare2@up2us.org.au
Phone - 57791593
National Tree Day
Come help Mansfield Shire Council and Up2Us Landcare Alliance for National Tree Day.
When: Sunday 28 July 10:00am-12:00pm
Where: Len Lynch Walk, Mansfield Botanic Gardens.
Please BYO planting equipment, if available, and water bottle. Wear weather appropriate clothing and footwear.
Registration essential.
Understanding Carbon and Climate Change on Farms
Join us for an informative event where we will discuss carbon and emissions on farm. Cam is a director of Nicon Rural Services, a consulting business near Geelong working with the grazing and cropping industries.
Date: Wednesday 17th July 2024
Time: 9:30am - 3:30pm Lunch included
Location: Delatite Hotel, Mansfield
Cam has worked in pasture agronomy and soils for nearly 40 years and has been involved in many farmer programs for the GRDC, MLA, Landcare and the current Future Drought Fund. He provides consultancy advice to farmers and lectures on animal and pasture systems at Marcus Oldham College.
Some of his recent work has been on helping farmers understand where a farm business should be positioned in the rapidly evolving carbon market.
He and his wife Fiona also run a 400 ha beef and sheep farm on the Bellarine Peninsula turning off cattle for the long fed feedlot market and fine wool.