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Merricks Coolart Catchment Landcare group - one of the Landcare Groups of the Mornington Peninsula

17/09/2026

This Saturday we return to Buckley’s Reserve to tackle the pittosporums.

Spring has sprung and pitto’s are doing their best to create more of themselves. As an invasive species and significant environmental w**d on the Peninsula, more of them is absolutely NOT want we want!

So, please join us this Saturday:
- Saturday 19th September
- 9–11am
- Buckley’s Reserve, corner Balnarring and Myers roads (but please park a little further south than the corner opposite Jackalope/Rare Hare vineyard)

As always, bring sturdy boots, good gloves, and some secateurs/loppers if you have them.

Thanks!
MCC Landcare team

13/09/2026

What a perfect day to put in the last 950 shrubs for the year! Thanks to all who came out to volunteer their time on this important Peninsula project at Saltbush Balnarring Beach. A big thank you to Mornington Peninsula Koala Conservation for supplying yesterday’s plants and squeezing our event into their crazy calendar. We wanting this thing to go smooth, and by the numbers, and that’s exactly how it went!

🌳 ➕ 🐨 🟰 💪

Looking forward to 2027 (and all the background work leading up to it ;)

Special thanks to our long-term enablers Community Bank Balnarring & District without whom this project would not be possible 🫶

12/09/2026

All set for tomorrow’s final community planting day for 2025. We had busy beavers out in the field yesterday at Saltbush Balnarring Beach putting in (or taking out?) 950 holes ready for the 950 plants that’ll be put in by ALL YOU enthusiastic environmental volunteers!

Spring forecast looks perfect for a day of improving the Peninsula, with the thermostat pointing into the 20’s!! Definitely bring water, sunscreen, and a hat along with your sturdy boots and gloves. Register at this eventbrite link: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/koala-food-tree-planting-day-saltbush-balnarring-tickets-1999239175191 👍

Special thanks to our planting partners Mornington Peninsula Koala Conservation for the collab (and I believe it’s the Koalas’ final planting day also so huge double event to finish off the year.) And many thanks to Community Bank Balnarring & District who have helped us every step of the way on this huuuuuge project :)

- Tomorrow/Sunday 13 September
- 9am sharp
- Saltbush, 122 Balnarring Beach Rd, Balnarring VIC 3926

See you tomorrow (Sunday) at 9am

24/08/2026

Time for some w**d whackin!
Biolink 1 path at Balnarring skatepark needs some attention. With recent rains and bouts of intense sunshine our friends/foes (w**ds) are up to no good again. Come help us tackle this current wave of environmental crime from 9am this Wednesday (tomorrow!), perhaps for the last time… 🤫

Today’s rain should make tomorrow’s task easy 🤞 😇 🤞

- Wednesday 26th August (tomorrow)
- from 9am
- Balnarring skatepark

Please bring sturdy shoes, gloves, and w**d whackin’ tools.
See you there ✌️

12/08/2026

Please note, this Saturday’s community planting day has been postponed. We received ~40mm rain in the last week at the Saltbush Balnarring Beach site, and while the wildlife is loving it, it’s too wet to hold a productive and enjoyable planting event.

We still have time left in the panting season so stay tuned to this channel for a rescheduled date.

In the meantime, enjoy a Saturday morning sleep in 😉

Thanks
MCC Landcare team

07/08/2026

As part of Landcare Week we’re going to hanging out in the breezeway at Balnarring Village today from 10am–12pm.

If you’re Landcare-curious, or want to know about your w**ds, or want to know how a bunch of locals are making Balnarring greener, or want to know the secret recipes to our outstanding morning tea treats, stop by and say g’day!

Ask us about the stuff we’re d**g:
- the multi-year Balnarring to the Bay Biolink (Biolink 1) project
- the Balnarring Bush Food Garden
- the new Biolink 2 initiative
- and more!

See you a bit later 😎

29/07/2026

Next week is Landcare Week, August 3–9!

Not just for our little Landcare corner of the Peninsula but for Landcare Victoria and Australia as a whole. If you’re not part of a Landcare group (consider joining ;) there are many ways you use Landcare principles and apply them to your own backyard or streetscape.

As part of Landcare Week we’ll be setting up a stall near Balnarring IGA next Saturday 8th August from 10am–12pm to chat about all things Merricks Coolart Landcare. A few members and volunteers will be on hand to answer any questions you have about the work being done by our little group, including:
- the multi-year Balnarring to the Bay Biolink (Biolink 1)
- the Balnarring Bush Food Garden
- the Biolink 2 initiative ending at Buckley’s Reserve

Come down and chat to us about what we’re doing to make our corner of the Peninsula the best place to live, work, and play :)
- Saturday 8th August
- 10am–12pm
- in the arcade between Balnarring Village and Ritchies IGA

See you *next* Saturday ✌️

25/07/2026

Speedy work and the fastest/earliest morning tea eva!

Last Saturday 16 volunteers and MCC Landcare members flocked to Saltbush Balnarring Beach for some tree maintenance. 120 short tree guards were removed and their taller, triple-staked, less wallaby-nibbly replacements installed.

120.
Took less than an hour! 😳
We’re getting quite good at this stuff!

So what then? We decided to move to the next paddock back across the creek. But before that, and because we’d traipsed all the delicious goodies across the creek in the first place, morning tea had to be …had. Probably the shortest work-time to tea-time in MCC Landcare history. And what a spread it was!

Bellies full and re-caffeinated we entered the paddock planted out last year with the fresh task to restake guards that had blown over or been knocked over by wildlife. This was a large task given the size of this paddock and 2025’s 7500! Of course we made short work of that task too. The morning tea sugar high is a helluva drug ;)

We finished at noonish with much accomplished.

Thank you to our volunteers for donating your precious time, and special thank you to some new faces (and subsequent new and official member!) for coming out and frolicking out in Balnarring’s newest and youngest forest :)

See you at the next one!
Saturday 15 August (mark your calendar :)

14/07/2026

Free this Saturday morning? Like tea, coffee, and cake? We have a little bit of tree guarding this Saturday morning at Saltbush Balnarring Beach. Join us!

In this episode of MCC Landcare working bee, we’ll be tackling the wallabies. Yes, you read that right (sort of). The back paddock plantings from 2024 need some love, specifically replacing the short corflute guards on the trees with taller mesh guards to prevent wallabies from nibbling the tops off. Many of our committee preferred to literally and physically *tackle* the wallabies but they were overruled due to it’d probably be asking a bit too much of our lovely volunteers.

So, installing tall tree guards it is :)

- (THIS) Saturday 18 July, 9–11am
- @ Saltbush, Balnarring Beach
- 122 Balnarring Beach Rd, Balnarring VIC 3926
- Morning tea for the hardest workers ;)
- Please bring warm clothes and waterproof boots/gumboots. Weather’s looking dry for Saturday but no doubt it will be dewey in the morning.

See you Saturday!

19/06/2026

👍 Planting day going ahead!!
Forecast for today looks patchy, so there will be a gazebo to shelter beneath if there’s a shower :) Please bring sturdy boots, coat, warm gloves, good vibes :)

- 181 Bittern-Dromana Rd, Merricks North, 3926
- 9:00 - hole digging and laying out of plants
- 10:00 - planting and staking
- 11:00 - morning tea and chit-chat

See you at 9!

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Frankston-Flinders Rd
Balnarring, VIC
3926

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