Weed control
Coordinated weed programs, spray days, and a herbicide rebate for members.
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Kilmore to Seymour, central Victoria
Healthy land, working together.
A network of Landcare groups across the Mitchell Shire. Landholders, farmers and neighbours restoring waterways, planting habitat and looking after the country between Kilmore and Seymour.
1989Working since
170Members
2Member groups
3,500Trees in at Glenaroua, June 2026
$20A year to join
What we actually do
Some of it is hands-on, like planting days and spray programs. Some of it is sharing skills, gear and know-how. If something here looks useful for your place, or you are not sure where to start, ring the facilitator.
Projects on the ground
6 running or in planning. Everything below is funded work with a start and a finish.
Revegetation
FarmBlitz
Tree planting and practical workshops, tubestock in the ground, fencing along waterways, and skills days on grasses, dams and bush regeneration.
Climate Smart Agriculture
Soil & carbon
Growing natural capital on farms, a demonstration site at Lyndale Park, free soil testing for landholders, and events on building healthier, more resilient ground.
Rabbit & Weed Control
Pest control
A two-year rabbit program in the Pyalong district, plus ongoing weed work, protecting plantings and giving native ground cover a chance.
Scaling Success
Partnership
A cross-network partnership with the Up2Us Landcare Alliance, bringing university student groups onto local properties for hands-on delivery days focused on climate resilience in the farming landscape.
Fox Control (SWG expansion)
Pest control, proposed, planning underway
A proposed coordinated fox-control program for the South West Goulburn area, extending the cooperative pest-animal model that already works in neighbouring districts.
The two member groups
Each group runs its own program and its own meetings. Both sit inside the network, which is where the grant work and the facilitator’s time come from.
Glenaroua Land Management Group
Glenaroua district
Glenaroua Land Management Group formed in 1988, when Landcare was just beginning, and its members live across the lower catchments of Sunday Creek, Kurkuruc Creek, Mollisons Creek and Sugarloaf Creek. The group works on the issues that shape sustainable farming here, weed and rabbit control, dryland salinity, erosion and the loss of habitat across the district. Its best known project is the annual community tree planting run with the Manningham Rotary Club, which in June 2026 brought more than 120 volunteers to Glenaroua Station to put 3,500 native trees and shrubs in along Kurkuruc Creek.
Meets 3rd Thursday of Feb, May, Aug and Nov, Glenaroua CFA shed
Chair Paul Fleming
Chair Paul Fleming
Dabyminga Landcare Incorporated
Dabyminga catchment, Tallarook ranges country
Dabyminga Landcare grew out of the Tallarook and Reedy Creek Landcare groups, which joined forces as the Dabyminga Catchment Cooperative so they could pool their equipment, share what they knew and get more done together. Anyone who lives or owns land in the Dabyminga catchment can join, which takes in Tallarook, Broadford, Reedy Creek and everywhere in between. The group's longest-running work is blackberry control on road reserves, public land and private property, alongside revegetation and the care of the Tallarook Arboretum, a public planting of species that were useful to the Taungurung people.
Meets Working bee and meeting every few months, usually a Sunday morning at the Tallarook Arboretum, opposite the Mechanics Institute. AGM in November. Dates go out to members by email.
President Jenny McInnes
President Jenny McInnes
What’s on
The next few. Everyone is welcome at all of them.
14Nov Saturday
Lyndale Park field day: walk the farm, record the bush
Lyndale Park, 465 Tallarook-Pyalong Road, Tallarook
A walk with ecologist Dr Peter Mitchell through two years of fencing, liming and a dam turning into a wetland on the network's Climate Smart demonstration farm. Along the way the group sets the farm's permanent photo points and enters its first vegetation condition records in the Covram app, on your own phone. Lunch provided. Start and finish times come with your booking.
Tell us you're comingNo limit on numbers
19June Saturday
Glenaroua community planting weekend
Argyle, Whitegate Road, Glenaroua
The Glenaroua Land Management Group's annual planting, the biggest in the network. Seedlings grown by TreeProject's volunteer growers go into rip lines on a grazing property on Whitegate Road. Come for a morning or the weekend; the group runs the barbecue.
Tell us you're comingNo limit on numbers
Junedate to be confirmed
Dabyminga community tree plant
Dabyminga catchment, site to be confirmed
Dabyminga Landcare is planning a community planting for June 2027. The site and the day are being settled and will appear here and in the newsletter.
Tell us you're comingNo limit on numbers
Paying for the work
Most of what happens on the ground is paid for by a grant somebody had to sit down and write. The network keeps track of what is open and what is coming, works out which ones a group here can realistically win, and helps put the applications together. If you have a project in mind and no idea how to fund it, that is a conversation worth having early.
“My job is to help our groups and their members turn good intentions into work on the ground. A planting day, a fenced creek, a grant sorted, or just getting the right people in a paddock together.”
Luca Brew, Landcare facilitator. Ring 0409 515 630 or email [email protected].
Twenty dollars a year
Membership covers you for insurance on group activities and puts you on the list for planting days and the newsletter. It also gives the network the numbers it needs when it asks for money on your behalf.
$20A year, per household. Renews 30 June.
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