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Friends of Mt Leura Inc.
Friends of Mt Leura Inc. (FoML) holds regular community events, including working bees, guest speakers and the occasional trip and tour. These days are a great way to get involved and learn more about our reserves (and our BBQs aren’t half bad either!).
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To enquire about
- volunteering
- membership
- activities
Click here to see our activities for 2023 pdf.
Click here to see our activities for 2022 pdf.
Click here to see our activities for 2021 pdf.
Contact Graham Arkinstall: 0418 377 293
Contact John Fallon: 0487 341 337
Email: foml [at] mtleura.org.au
Use our online contact form below. Comments or questions are welcome. Membership option is open to all and it’s free!
If you prefer to print & post your 2022-23 membership form please click here to download a pdf form.
Donations. If you wish to make a donation please make bank payments as follows:
Account name: Friends of Mt. Leura Inc.
BSB: 633 108
Account number: 156 887 796
*Please use ‘donation’ as your reference.
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FoML Facebook Page
Just a brief report ... and a few photos ... from today's working bee. 11 great volunteers in attendance meant a tick beside all planned tasks .... washed clean all the information boards around the top visitor and lookout area, raked and tidied all the paths and picnic area down the bottom and carpet swept inside the VEC building as well. To top our session of, Simon demonstrated how the fauna monitoring pole camera worked ... it is a really interesting and worthwhile piece of equipment.
We finished off with the usual coffee and chat down the street. Today was another great reminder as to why FoML is a great group to be involved with.
Well done everyone from Kamakura Japan at Cherry Blossom time
Oh I wish I could make it to these. Just too busy with church and/or children’s sport on the weekends at the moment!! Great work everyone!!
Great work everyone 👏👏❤️
Sounds like a productive day
News of 2 of our upcoming FoML activities.
In order they include:
1. Working bee at Mt Leura this Sunday (March 19th) commencing at 9.30am and finishing NO LATER than 11.00am. We are hoping to include a bit of a demonstration of our wildlife monitoring pole camera by Simon; clean the info signs up top of Mt Leura; tidy up around the Wildflower Gardens and if time permits a quick visit to the nursery to check out the great progress of our plant propagation workshops conducted in January and Feb.
2. We still have some spots left for our ‘Birds of Mt Leura and Surrounds’ presentation by local bird expert Kerry Vickers. Commencing at the Mt Leura VEC Tuesday 21st March at 7.00pm with a short walk and bird watching session and followed about 8.15pm with an indoor presentation. Finish up approximately 9.00pm. Booking via Graham Arkinstall (0418 377 293) is essential …. and don’t forget that wine, cheese, tea, coffee and biccies are provided FREE for all attendees.
Hope to see you at one of these ..... Graham.
It is coming up soon so be sure to add the date to your calendar .... Sunday 16th April for the 2023 chapter of the '4 Peaks Challenge'. You even have some time up your sleeve to build that bit of fitness required to have a fantastic day exploring our very own local volcanic peaks.
Big thanks to John for organising this annual FoML event.
Leah Brown Boyd this year!! Better start training
Lauren Harrison 💪🏽
Laura O'Dowd Angela Cunningham Fiona Fifi Clissold Georgia Clissold
Notice from the Management Committee:
The Mt Leura Management Committee will be undertaking a drone survey of the Reserves on Monday 13th Feb across the entire day. This is being conducted to assist the Committee with future management strategies and with monitoring the Reserves.
PLEASE note that the Reserves operate on a NO DRONES policy
Hi all --- just a brief reminder that our next activity is this coming Sunday (22nd January) starting at 9.30am. It is a working bee commencing at our Lower SHelter wildflower garden. Our last 4 weeks of little rain and wind has meant there is a fair bit to clean up and put away so if you can get there and help it will be gratefully appreciated. We will commence at 9.30am and finish no later than 11.00am before heading off for a coffee and chat at a local cafe. Cheers ... Arky
If you’ve got some spare time this Saturday, helpers are needed for a working bee in Skipton to clean up after the flood. Any help would be hugely appreciated! Please feel free to share.SKIPTON WORKING BEE 🐝 Give those affected by the Skipton floods a hand. From 8 am-5 pm Saturday 22 October, BBQ lunch provided. Please bring along some boots, gloves, some cleaning tools (rake, shovel, hoe, wheelbarrow, etc.) and fencing gear (if you have that). For those wanting to volunteer please register by calling 5593 7100.
I am very pleased to be able to share the poster detailing the 'Come and Explore' program put together by the Mt Leura and Mt Sugarloaf Management Committee. It provides lots of great activities and reasons to attend and participate. Of course our Friends of Mt Leura members will also be helping on the day.
Kids must be under adult supervision and some of the activities do have limitations on the number of participants. Please be sure to sign in when you arrive and enjoy your time on Djargurd wurrung land with the rest of us.
Hi Sally ... good to know that they are doing well.... Fran showed me where they are just the other day. Cheers... Arky
A wonderful opportunity for Landcarers to visit Mounts Leura and Sugarloaf - and to appreciate the truly wonderful work that the Management Committee and the Friends have done over the years.
Make sure you spot the Tawnies they have nested in the usual spot 😊
Kris Gordon
For those who were wondering what plants are available at our plant stall next Saturday... 15th October.... the following list should help:
Available plant list:
Austral Indigo – Indigofera australis; Chocolate Lilly or Pale Vanilla Lily – Anthropodium spp; Clustered Everlasting – Chrysocephalum semipapposum; Button Wrinklewort -Rutidosis leptorhynchoides; Common Everlasting Daisy- Chrysocephalum apiculatum; Grass Trigger-Plant- Stylidium graminifolium; Hoary Sunray –Leucochrysum albicans; Native Geranium – Pelargonium austral; Small-Leaved Clematis – Clematis microphylla; Sticky Everlasting- Xerchrysum viscosum; Swamp Billy-buttons- Craspedia paludicola; Yam Daisy or Murnong – Microseris scapigera.
Numbers of each plant vary considerably from less than 20 up to 100.
PLEASE NOTE ... It is a case of first in on the day.
Hope this helps. Arky.
Thank you for the opportunity to purchase some of your plants. So healthy looking, I planted them today, and look forward to seeing how they like it in my garden
Barbara Sanders
What a great time to get some of our local plants for your garden and also support our FoML group and the Mt Leura project.
Yes please to plant list
Do you have a plant list?
Also wondering about a species list 🙂 Even a partial one
Janine Jackson
Any trees.?
Plant list please
www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/camperdown-george-s-voice-from-the-past-pay-the-rent-20220825-...
Camperdown George’s voice from the past: pay the rent
www.theage.com.au
Camperdown George – real name Wombeetch Puyuun – gave voice long ago to all that’s needed to understand why Australia’s indigenous people deserve a Voice.Come to the reserves and see the new information sign, Wombeetch Puyuuns story is part the information. Walk around the garden and on the reserves of Leehura (mount Leura) and Tuununbee Heear (mount Sugarloaf). Connect with nature, place and people. It is a wonderful experience.
It would be great if you could vote for the Southern Bent-wing Bat for Australian Mammal of the Year.
This native micro-bat is listed as critically endangered, it needs all the help it can get and this could really help to raise its profile.
Thanks. Voting closes tomorrow. 🦇🦇🦇
Alicia Blyth Merriam could share to llpg page