Events calendar

The SGLN Annual General Meeting, will be the celebration of another year of excellent land stewardship by  it members.

Local food will be on the menu, including Gippsland Natural Beef.

Guest speaker/entertainer will be Alan Pentland. Alan qualified as an architect and became a comedian. He ran Melbourne’s first stand up club, worked with Daryl Somers and was a key player in the TV comedy hit Fast Forward. His work has won awards at three international film festivals. After years in Showbiz and Big Biz, Alan has decided to return to his roots, as the angst-ridden poet, trying to contact his inner Dylan Thomas.

Tickets are $40 per head for the meal and entertainment. Drinks at bar prices.

We hope you can you us for an entertaining evening.

Tickets are available from trybooking. Please book before October 4.

The inaugural Dick Howarth Memorial SGLN Life Membership award will be presented on the night. Come along and celebrate an awesome contribution to Landcare and an induction into our “Hall of Fame”

BirdLife Australia is holding a workshop where you can learn more about Australia’s most threatened beach-nesting bird, the Hooded Plover.

Learn about their amazing behaviours and how to give them a helping hand.

Improving the conservation outlook for beach nesting shorebirds is incredibly challenging given these birds nest in habitats so popular for human recreation. Find out about the threats faced by these birds, efforts to improve their breeding success and learn how you can get involved.

Watch some amazing footage and learn how to interpret the quirky behaviours of the birds, offering rare insight into breeding and chick behaviour.

Please RSVP by October 4, bnb.events@birdlife.org.au or phone 03 9347 0757

Light supper provided, please advise of dietary requirements at time of RSVP.

All are welcome.

The Fish Creek Community Garden Inc. present Khory Hancock – the Environmental Cowboy.

Khory is going to talk about Climate Change Adaptation and Biochar for Soil Health, the topics include:

• Biochar – products, benefits and challenges (including climate change solutions)
• Climate adaptation – crop yield decreases, water challenges, extreme weather event resilience, drought tolerance and irrigation
• Erosion and sediment control – mitigation strategies to poor soil structures (high sodium levels etc)
• Nutrient and carbon levels in soil – biochar benefits
• Soil dispersion field tests – classes to soil structure, field experiments using soil from local area and classification sheets with mitigation strategies
• Weed management
• Health/nutrition benefits – Khory’s research assistant Katrina Lynch will be doing this presentation.

There will also be mules, flowers and Biodynamic compost.

• Get your hands dirty and learn how to make a Biodynamic compost
• Watch working mules ploughing a garden plot

Children’s activities include: cuddle a mini horse, make paper pats and plant a sunflower seed, make flower circlets, bring along your kites, trikes and balls.

Food and drinks will be available to purchase or bring your own picnic basket and blanket.

For more details contact Juneen 0427 809 509.