National Landcare Week

This week marks National Landcare Week - a celebration of two decades of the Landcare movement.

Basalt to Bay will be celebrating this week with planting days in Toolong (involving local members of the B2B network and local TAFE students) and a planting day at Hawkesdale Common (involving students from Hawkesdale Common, local members of the B2B network, HADDAC and members of the Hawkesdale Community).

Basalt to Bay Landcare Network would like to thank all our members for the fantastic work they have done in this past year and all of our supporters. A special thanks to :

• Tim Bligh, Jane O'Beirne, Karen Wales, Bruce Mirtschin, Waye Bryce & Don McTaggert
• Kristie King
  
• The Glenelg Hopkins CMA, especially Margie Finnigan, Mary Johnson, Tania Parker, David Nichols and Tony Lithgo
  
• Demo Dairy
• Brenton Barsch
• Marty Gent, Matthew Ebden and Bernadette Northeast
• Students from Port Fairy Consolidated Primary School, Hawkesdale College, Warrnambool Primary School and Brauer College
• The Warrnambool Motorcycle Club
  
• Mobile Muster
• Jemena
  
• Landcare Australia, especially Francis Jeon-Ellis, Alison Raymond and Shivani Jayasighe
  
• The Department of Community Development
• Rosse Colliver and his Landcare Network Readiness Forum
• The Department of Sustainability and Environment
• Mark Doueal and the Department of Primary Indistries
• Karen Foster from o2 Media
• Tim Umney of Umney Media
  
• Dean Suckling from Agri-Doo and Heytsbury Landcare Network.

In further news, in a few weeks time we will be sending out invites for our Kick Start Your Reserve Coach Tour and our local Landcare forum, Landcare : Past, Present and Future.
Stay tuned.