​Yarram Yarram Landcare Network

WANT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE FOR YOUR LOCAL COMMUNITY
AND THE ENVIRONMENT?
You don't have to be young, fit, own land or be knowledgeable about flora and fauna to join in. 
​All you need is a sense of fun and a willingness to contribute to a better environmental future.
For more information contact
Anna Feely, YYLN Landcare Facilitator,
M: 0417 536 873, E: [email protected]
W: www.yarramlandcare.org

BRINGING COMMUNITY TOGETHER ​
​TO PROTECT AND ENHANCE OUR ENVIRONMENT

OUR GROUPS

The Yarram Yarram Landcare Network acknowledges and pays respect to the Traditional Owners on whose lands we live and work -
the Gunaikurnai people. We recognise your historic and ongoing care of the diverse landscapes that we call home.
​As the original land-carers, your guidance is important to us as we protect this unique land, together. 
Always was, always will be, Gunaikurnai Country.

EVENTS (UPCOMING)

Gippsland Soil School - Calling for EOIs Now!!

Established by the Gippsland Agricultural Group, and supported by Australian Government through the Natural Heritage Trust under the Climate-Smart Program, the new Gippsland Soil School is calling for expressions of interest from participants.  The School is designed to break down the silos between different soil management approaches - drawing on the best of conventional, regenerative, precision, and biological soil management systems to equip our farmers to manage soil better in their unique farming and soil systems.  The program will consist of 8 modules comprising 4 x 2day training blocks.  For more information, visit https://gippslandag.com.au/soil-school.  To lodge an expression of interest visit: https://bit.ly/441VJlH

National Tree Day 
​(13 July 2025)

Join YYLN and Wellington Shire Council in planting 500 trees in celebration of National Tree Day!!
You are invited to help plant these tree from 10.00am - 12 noon on 13 July 2025 at the Alberton entrance of the Great Southern Rail Trail.  If you are keen, please visit the Wellington Shire Council website to register or call Anna Feely Mob 0417 536 873 for more details.

YYLN Community Nursery - Mega Plant Sale (6 Sept 25)

Our Nursery will be holding a plant sale on Saturday, 6 September 2025.  Some great bargains to be had as we try to make space for next season's growing!!  Watch this space for more details!

Gippsland New Engergy Conference 2025 (9-10 Sept 25)

The Gippsland Climate Change Network has announced the return of the GNEC 2025!  After a sell-out event last year, the Gippsland New Energy Conference (GNEC) is back in Traralgon on Tuesday 9 - Wednesday 10 September - and it's set to be bigger than ever.

GNEC is Australia’s largest regional-led event dedicated to sustainable energy, bringing together industry leaders, innovators, and the community to drive the future of energy.  Last year, the event featured over 100 speakers, 700 attendees, a free community expo, expert panel discussions, and a youth summit focused on careers in the energy sector.  As momentum continues to build, GNEC remains a key platform for showcasing Gippsland’s leadership in Australia’s transition to a clean energy future.

More details are coming, but mark these two days in your calendar now!!

National Landcare Conference (21-24 Sept 25)

The National Landcare Conference will be held on Sunday 21 September - Wednesday 24 September 2025 at the Gold Coast Conventions and Exhibition Centre, Queensland.  The theme of this year's conference is 'Landcare: Nature, Agriculture, Land and People Positive'.  The Conference will include a field trip program, First National Landcare Gathering, the NextGen Landcare Summit, world-class speakers, exhibition hall and poster competition, and National Landcare Awards Gala Dinner.  Costa will be MC again.  
If you are looking for inspiration it's well worth the journey!!

YYLN AGM (18 OCT 25)

We are delighted to announce that the YYLN AGM will be held on Saturday, 18 October 2025 and that our guest speaker will be Bill Gammage!!
Bill Gammage AM FASSA is an Australian historian, Adjunct Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the Humanities Research Centre of the Australian National University (ANU). He is the author of The Broken Years (1974) on the First AIF, Narrandera Shire (1988), The Sky Travellers: Journeys in New Guinea 1938-9 (1998), The Biggest Estate on Earth (2011) and with Bruce Pascoe, First Knowledges Country (2021). The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia (2011), has won six prizes, including a Prime Minister’s Literary Prize for Australian History in 2012.

More details will be shared as the AGM approaches, but definitely an event for your calendar now!

EVENTS (RECENT)

Gorse Control Demonstration Day
(Friday, 23 May)

On Friday, 23 May 2025, the Albert River Landcare Group and the Victorian Gorse Taskforce held a successful demonstration day on Brinker's property at Alberton.  Over 20 landholders, contractors and representatives from government agencies attended.

Gorse infests valuable pastoral land and significantly reduces land values. It is a haven for rabbits, foxes and feral cats.  Gorse is a regionally-controlled weed and landholders, both public and private, are responsible for preventing its growth and spread. Tackling gorse takes effort but doing nothing means it just gets worse.  So we need to keep on keeping on.  

A variety of approaches were demonstrated. Dylan Rash (Yarram) mulched an area almost to saw dust, John Kosta (Wonyip Landcare Group) showed hand spraying from his truck spray unit, Mitch Henderson (Gippsland Spray Drones) showed how drones can spray herbicide particularly successfully on steep inaccessible land.  Peter Sporle (Victorian Gorse Taskforce) demonstrated hand cutting and painting which kills plants and is particularly effective on outlying small plants which are the "Super Spreaders “of a new spread of gorse. The importance of follow up treatment of new plants was stressed as seed can stay viable in the soil for at least 25 years.

Participants were encouraged to access the excellent VGT website which has a virtual field officer to help plan landholders' management. Participants came away with a sample bag of information and a hand "dabber", a sponge applicator for hand-cutting and painting. More of these can be obtained from the YYLN Office on request.
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Jenny Davies
Contact Officer
Albert River Landcare Group​

Visit to Bass Coast Nursery (May 25)

​On Friday, 9 May 2025 a group of YYLN Nursery enthusiasts visited the Bass Coast Community Nursery and the Wonthaggi Seed Bank and Nursery.  There was much to learn about how our Nursery might grow in the future.  The Bass Coast Landcare Nursery team were most complementary about our amazing Bronwyn Teesdale who established the Bass Coast Nursery some years ago, and is now leading the establishment and growth of our YYLN Community Nursery!!  Well done Bronwyn!
This year's National Landcare Conference will be held in Queensland from 21 - 24 September 2025.  So if you want to get inspired, share experiences from your patch, and get to know your national landcare community, here's a great opportunity!!

Get involved in your local Native Nursery!! 

Our new Native Nursery at the Yarram Showgrounds is shaping as a buzzing community hub, with volunteers helping every Tuesday morning.  If you are interested in getting involved, the Nursery is open from 10am -12noon every Tuesday - do something amazing for your local environment and your local community!!  Contact: Anna Feely 0417 536 873

Dung Beetle Workshop
​POSTPONED

Learn the power of the dung beetle at this upcoming workshop in Stradbroke.  For registrations, call Mob 0437 640635.

Take Home Propagation Kit

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With help from Wellington Shire Council, YYLN is launching an exciting new propagation project!  YYLN is creating propagation kits (tubes, racks, potting mix, fertiliser and seed) and offering regular workshops on how to grow plants at home for your own use and/or Landcare projects.  The propagation process takes around 6 months.  There will be a small cost for those growing plants for their own projects ~ 20c/plant.  (Note: Nursery-bought plants are around $1.20 - $1.50 each!)

So if you would like to be part of this exciting new initiative, text Bronwyn Teesdale on
​M. 0428 559 582.

NEWS

So we were in the News!

Our nursery champions have starred in the news.  VLG grants have now closed but our Landcare volunteers are forever famous!

YYLN Membership Renewals due now!

Membership renewals to our Landcare Network are now due!  $45 for an annual household membership makes you part of a vibrant community of Landcarers, a network which is regional, national and international!! Please visit our GET INVOLVED page for bank details.  

National Feral Deer Action

The National Feral Deer Action Plan Newsletter for March 2025 is now available.  Read the latest here:

Network Notes 

Check out the latest Network Notes from our YYLN Executive Officer, Simon Hamilton, Facilitator, Anna Feely and Project Officer, Ben Layton!!

Inspired by Phillip Johnson (Mar 2025) 

We had a packed audience at Yarram's Regent Theatre where we were inspired by landscape designer and RHS Chelsea Flower Show Award Winner, Phillip Johnson. Phillip shared his wisdom on how to see, create and live with beauty!!  Thank you Phillip and Anna Feely for making this event happen!!

Albert River LG Gathering
​(Feb 2025)

Albert River Landcare Group recently hosted a picnic and get-together at which Anna Feely, our Landcare Facilitator, showed the group around her patch! Lots of interest and lots of ideas!!

Seed Collection Workshop (Jan 2025) 

The 2025 Landcare year kicked off to a fabulous start with a wonderful seed collection workshop, led by Bronwyn Teesdale.  We learned all things seed collecting at our new YYLN native nursery and then headed to the Yarram wetlands for some in-field instruction.  Our growing expertise in seed collection will help in the propagation of local species at the Nursery.  It's a lot of fun and can be a bit addictive!!

LATEST GRANTS AVAILABLE

Looking to fund your Project?

Visit our Project Funding page for more information about these and other opportunities for funding.

Wettenhall Environment Trust - Small Grants

The Wettenhall Environment Trust (WET) has a Small Environmental Grant Scheme that opens for applications every three months.  "We are looking for projects about flora and fauna conservation around Australia. These projects should involve any of the following: monitoring, recording and sharing data; delivering community education; providing community capacity building (e.g. training); research and science."
For more detail: 
https://wettenhall.org.au/grants/small-environmental-grants/

MAKE A DIFFERENCE

    CONTACT US

YARRAM YARRAM LANDCARE NETWORK
2 Livingston Road, Yarram, VIC 3971
T: (03) 1300 094 262/ (03) 5613 5902

​Anna Feely
YYLN Landcare Facilitator
M: 0417 536 873
E: [email protected]
W: www.yarramlandcare.org
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Field Workshop
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Yarram Secondary College tree planting team

Related websites...

Follow the links below to learn more about YYLN's Jack and Albert River (JARR) Project, and the good oil on all things 'revegetation'...

Subsidised site visits

Interested in submitting a VLG grant in the April/May round and don't know where to start?YYLN wants to assist you in preparing project plans and has engaged Seeds of Gippsland to work with interested members through individual property site-visits. Site visits aim to accurately map out the proposed project, determine costings, provide advice on species selection etc...
If you want help with your next project, please contact Anna Feely, our YYLN Landcare Facilitator.

2024 YYLN Annual Report

The 2024 Annual Report was adopted at the October AGM.  Check out the Report for details on our projects and financials.

Yarram Yarram Landcare Network - Connecting Community and Landscapes

A DONATION THAT REALLY MATTERS
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DID YOU KNOW THAT YOU CAN MAKE A TAX-DEDUCTIBLE DONATION TO LANDCARE?
​Yarram Yarram Landcare Network is now registered with Landcare Victoria Inc as an eligible recipient of tax-deductible donations. 
Contribute financially to the Network and we will make sure your money makes a real difference to the environment.  ​
So what are you waiting for?

MAKING A DIFFERENCE
​WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM OUR FRIENDS

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