Plant Me Instead (and Macedon & Mt Macedon Landcare AGM)

Come along to hear about using beneficial native species as alternatives to environmental weeds to prevent 'garden escapees’

Environmental weeds can be a costly problem in our natural areas and cause negative impacts to our native flora and fauna.

This presentation by Ammie Jackson will cover -

• what are garden escapees and why are they a problem

• how garden plants escape

• identification of some of Macedon's common weeds and the indigenous alternative to use instead

• Tools, tips and resources

Ammie Jackson is the Landcare Facilitator for the Upper Deep Creek Landcare Network and Jacksons Creek EcoNetwork. She has worked in the environment and conservation industry for 20 years and has a passion for native flora. She lives in the Macedon Ranges and loves gardening, in her spare time she likes to teach workshops on foraging edible weeds.

Her talk will be preceded by a short AGM for Macedon and Mt Macedon Landcare.

The agenda is:

• Short overview of what we've done in the last 18 months

• A statement of our financials

• The election of the committee

We are of course keen to entice, encourage and otherwise embolden any folks out there who would like to join our committee.  If this is something you might, possibly, maybe be contemplating, one way to help you decide would be to come along to our next committee meeting and see how we roll. It is just before the AGM. If this interests you, email Andrew on mmm.landcare@gmail.com or if you want to have a chat about what's involved give Kate a call on 0402 090 445 

Notice is hereby given that at a meeting to be held at 7.30pm on July 22, 2025, at the Macedon and Mount Macedon Community Centre, 47 Victoria Street, Macedon