23 June 2024
Grow West Community Planting Day 2024
Green thumbs are invited to roll up their sleeves and help plant 4,000 native plants on Wurundjeri Country at Telford Park,...
Green thumbs are invited to roll up their sleeves and help plant 4,000 native plants on Wurundjeri Country at Telford Park, Darley for the annual Grow West Community Planting Day on Sunday 21st July 2024.
The annual planting day is one of Grow West’s biggest events and is an important opportunity to rejuvenate and restore local landscapes.
This year, Grow West is excited to be partnering with Moorabool Shire Council to revisit and improve Telford Park. Moorabool Shire Council are one of Grow West’s longest running partners and so it is wonderful to be running this planting day with them. Grow West held a community planting day on this site in 2017 to improve native vegetation and decrease erosion
impacts. It is a wonderful opportunity to work with council to further improve this site. This year’s planting day will focus on undertaking in-fill planting and providing good mid story habitat for birds and insects. This planting day will provide necessary habitat linkages in the landscape, with the Lerderderg River and other patches of vegetation nearby.
Grow West Community Planting Day Flyer.
Registration
We ask that you register to help with planning for the day. This includes catering for morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea. Please make sure you register a ticket for every attendee, including children. Please register by the 14th July.
Acknowledgments
Grow West is a partnership between Melbourne Water, Moorabool Shire Council, City of Melton, Moorabool Landcare Network, Parks Victoria, DEECA, Southern Rural Water and Greater Western Water.
The Grow West Community Planting Day is an annual event run by Grow West. This year it is being run in partnership with Moorabool Shire Council, Melbourne Water, Friends of Werribee Gorge and Long Forest Mallee, Moorabool Landcare Network, Fifteen Trees, Bacchus Marsh Lions Club, Victorian Mobile Landcare Group and Victorian National Parks Association.
This year’s community planting day will be held on Sunday 21st July. We are excited to be partnering with Moorabool Shire Council to revisit and improve Telford Park in Darley. This is an important community passive recreation site that also provides necessary habitat linkages in the landscape, with the Lerderderg River and other patches of vegetation nearby. We will be undertaking infill planting at this site, which will significantly expand the habitat values present.
Keep an eye out for the link to the booking in the coming weeks.
Grow West is a proud sponsor of the Rotary Club of Bacchus Marsh Art Sale and Exhibition and is again running the Grow West Landscape Art Prize in 2024.
Artists of all levels are invited to enter a work in any medium that expresses their understanding and appreciation of the work done to protect the precious, yet fragile, environment in the Grow West area.
We offer a $700 acquisition prize for the winning artwork.
Key dates
The Bacchus Marsh Rotary Club Art Show, which features the Grow West Landscape Acquisitive Prize, will be held on the King’s Birthday long weekend, 7th – 10th June.
Entries closes: Monday 20th May 2024
About Grow West
Grow West is one of Australia’s most ambitious programs of landscape restoration. Launched in 2003, its vision is to revegetate thousands of hectares of land in the Upper Werribee Catchment by connecting large areas of public reserves in Brisbane Ranges National Park, Werribee Gorge State Park and Lerderderg State Park through a mosaic of revegetation works across public and private properties.
Potential sites to visit for inspiration
The follow locations are sites where Grow West has achieved large-scale landscape change:
- Revegetation leading into Bacchus Marsh from Ballarat on the Western Freeway
- Revegetation and forestry in the Rowsley Valley, along Glenmore Road
- Remnant vegetation protection on Iron Bark Road leading into the Werribee Gorge from Bacchus Marsh
- Revegetation at the Racecourse & Recreation Reserve, Balliang – Bacchus Marsh Road, Bacchus Marsh
- Revegetation and Forestry at Tramway Lane at Bald Hill Bacchus Marsh
- Various sites near Palmers Lane and Myers Road adjacent to the Werribee Gorge
Also see the Before and After Photos section of this website.
Green thumbs are invited to roll up their sleeves and help plant 5,000 native plants on Wadawurrung Country at the Ballan Treatment Plant for the annual Grow West Community Planting Day on Sunday 16th July 2023.
The annual planting day is one of Grow West’s biggest events and is an important opportunity to rejuvenate and restore local landscapes.
We are excited to be working with Central Highlands Water at the Ballan Treatment Plant. This is an important site in the landscape, with the Werribee River marking the northern boundary. We will be planting along the eastern boundary fence of the property and along an escarpment of a creek that runs into the Werribee River at the site. These plantings will improve connectivity through the site, connecting habitat in the rail reserve at the south of the site to the escarpment planting in the north.
The planting at this site will improve connectivity through the landscape and will link to previous Grow West plantings, including some new revegetation projects occurring this planting season.
Grow West Community Planting Day Flyer.
Registration
We ask that you register to help with planning for the day. This includes catering for morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea. Please make sure you register a ticket for every attendee, including children. Registration will be open until the 9th July.
Acknowledgments
Grow West is a partnership between Melbourne Water, Moorabool Shire Council, City of Melton, Moorabool Landcare Network, Parks Victoria, DEECA, Southern Rural Water and Greater Western Water.
The Grow West Community Planting Day is an annual event run by Grow West. This year it is being run in partnership with Melbourne Water, Moorabool Shire Council, Central Highlands Water, Wadawurrung Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation, Friends of Werribee Gorge and Long Forest Mallee, Moorabool Landcare Network, Fifteen Trees, Bacchus Marsh Lions Club and Victorian Mobile Landcare Group.
This year’s community planting day will be held on Sunday 16th July. We are excited to be working with Central Highlands Water at the Ballan Treatment Plant. This is an important site in the landscape, with the Werribee River marking the northern boundary. We will be planting along the eastern boundary fence of the property and along an escarpment of a creek that runs into the Werribee River at the site. These plantings will improve connectivity through the site, connecting habitat in the rail reserve at the south of the site to the escarpment planting in the north.
The planting at this site will improve connectivity through the landscape and will link to previous Grow West plantings along the Werribee River, including some new revegetation projects occurring this planting season.
Keep an eye out for the link to the booking in the coming weeks.
Grow West is a proud sponsor of the Rotary Club of Bacchus Marsh Art Sale and Exhibition and is again running the Grow West Landscape Art Prize in 2023.
Artists of all levels are invited to enter a work in any medium that expresses their understanding and appreciation of the work done to protect the precious, yet fragile, environment in the Grow West area.
We are pleased to announce that we now offer a $700 acquisition prize for the winning artwork.
Bacchus Marsh Art Show 2023 online entry form.
Bacchus Marsh Art Show 2023 printable entry form.
For more information, visit the Rotary Club of Bacchus Marsh website.
Key dates
The Bacchus Marsh Rotary Club Art Show, which features the Grow West Landscape Acquisitive Prize, will be held on the King’s Birthday long weekend, 9th – 12th June.
Entries closes: Friday 22nd May 2023
About Grow West
Grow West is one of Australia’s most ambitious programs of landscape restoration. Launched in 2003, its vision is to revegetate thousands of hectares of land in the Upper Werribee Catchment by connecting large areas of public reserves in Brisbane Ranges National Park, Werribee Gorge State Park and Lerderderg State Park through a mosaic of revegetation works across public and private properties.
Potential sites to visit for inspiration
The follow locations are sites where Grow West has achieved large-scale landscape change:
- Revegetation leading into Bacchus Marsh from Ballarat on the Western Freeway
- Revegetation and forestry in the Rowsley Valley, along Glenmore Road
- Remnant vegetation protection on Iron Bark Road leading into the Werribee Gorge from Bacchus Marsh
- Revegetation at the Racecourse & Recreation Reserve, Balliang – Bacchus Marsh Road, Bacchus Marsh
- Revegetation and Forestry at Tramway Lane at Bald Hill Bacchus Marsh
- Various sites near Palmers Lane and Myers Road adjacent to the Werribee Gorge
Also see the Before and After Photos section of this website.
Green thumbs are invited to roll up their sleeves and help plant 4,000 native plants at Hopetoun Park at the 19th annual Grow West Community Planting Day on Sunday 24th July 2022.
The annual planting day is one of Grow West’s biggest events and is an important opportunity to rejuvenate and restore local landscapes. This highly anticipated community event was sadly cancelled in 2020 and 2021 but is back this year.
The planting day will be held at Pelican Point on the Werribee River at Hopetoun Park. This is an important site to protect and enhance as it is known to be home to many threatened species and in fact the vegetation community, Plains Woodland/Plains Grassy Grassland Mosaic, is endangered. Our work along the river here will help to improve the habitat value of this important link through the landscape, which connects up with previous years plantings.
Grow West Community Planting Day Flyer
Registrations
We ask that you register to help with planning for the day. This includes catering for morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea. Please make sure you register a ticket for every attendee, including children. Registration will be open until the 21st July or until booked out.
Acknowledgments
Grow West is a partnership between Melbourne Water, Moorabool ShireCouncil and Southern Rural Water.
The Grow West Community Planting Day is an annual event run by Grow West in partnership with Victorian National Parks Association, Friends of Hopetoun Park and Parwan Gorge, Friends of Werribee Gorge and Long Forest Mallee, Moorabool Landcare Network, Bacchus Marsh Lions Club, Victorian Mobile Landcare Group and Moorabool Shire Council.
Thanks to all the applicants for this revegetation initiatives. We are currently assessing the expressions of interest and will get back to applicants by the end of June 2022.
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Grow West has received funding from Parks Victoria through the Three Rivers Project.
This funding will assist Grow West with coordinating the 2022 Grow West Community Planting Day but it also has allowed us to offer seedling and tree guards to our landholders.
Do you have a revegetation project or shelter belt that you would like to plant this year?
We have 4,000 seedlings and milk carton guards available to landholders for a revegetation project for this year.
The seedlings are being grown by the Moorabool Landcare Nursery and will be available in July.
The seedlings that have been chosen are suitable for the Grow West Region and we will supply you with 1 litre milk carton guards.
You will need to do the site preparation, weed and rabbit control and planting.
To register your interest you will need to complete the form below and provide a map, if you can.
Expressions of interest close on Monday 17th May 2022.
Grow West’s annual ‘Greener, Brighter, Future’ exhibition has gone online at Moor Art Space for the second year, and this time is showcasing the past winners of the Grow West Landscape Art Prize.
Since 2005, Grow West has sponsored the annual Rotary Club of Bacchus Marsh Art Sale and Exhibition through the Grow West Landscape Art Prize. Artists of all levels enter artworks in any medium that expresses their understanding and appreciation of the work done to protect the precious, yet fragile, environment in the Grow West area.
Through this sponsorship, the project has acquired 16 pieces of artwork, depicting the Grow West landscape and these are now available to view online all throughout September. The featured artworks include pieces by Dennis Cotter, Geoff Paynter, Alison Durham, Ri Van Veen, Bernie McRitchie and more.
Grow West is proud to partner with Moorabool Shire Council to share these amazing pieces of artwork online with the community.
To view the online exhibition visit Moor Art @ Lerderderg Library | Moorabool Shire Council
After the highly anticipated Grow West Community Planting Day had to be cancelled for the second year in a row, we’ve worked hard to ensure the trees still made it into the ground, with 4,000 indigenous trees and shrubs planted at Kel Shields Flora Reserve in Maddingley last week.
The Grow West annual community planting day event has been running for over 15 years, attracting over 200 volunteers across the state to help plant indigenous plants in the upper Werribee Catchment. The 2021 event was sadly cancelled twice this year, once on the 5thJune, World Environment Day and again on the 24th of July, due to coronavirus (COVID-19) restrictions.
The event was to be held at Kel Shields Flora Reserve in Maddingley, a five-hectare reserve that supports a diverse understory of native grasses and shrubs. Thanks to a last-minute sponsorship from Natural Resources Conservation League of Victoria, Grow West was able to employ contractors to help get the 4,000 plants in the ground before the end of the planting season.
It is envisaged that the reserve will become an important thoroughfare for the community, with walking tracks connecting new suburbs of Bacchus Marsh to the train station and main street.
This project contributes to the Grow West vision of rejuvenating 10,000 hectares of land by connecting the You Yangs Regional Park, Brisbane Ranges National Park, Werribee Gorge State Park and Lerderderg State Park through a mosaic of restoration works on private and public land.
Grow West is a partnership between Port Phillip & Westernport CMA, Melbourne Water, Moorabool Shire Council and Southern Rural Water. This project was made possible thanks to its sponsors – SureGrow Treemax, 15 Trees, GJ Gardner Homes, Bacchus Marsh Community Bank, and Natural Resources Conservation League of Victoria – and the support of the Friends of Werribee Gorge and Long Forest Mallee, Moorabool Landcare Network, Victorian National Parks Association, Bacchus Marsh Lions Club and the Victorian Mobile Landcare Group.