Friends of Coburg Lake and Surrounds

Hello fellow planters and carers of the creek.

Care of our new heightened requirements for social distancing we are cancelling our monthly weeding, mulching and planting morning at Coburg Lake, that would have started today at 9.30 am.

If you would still like to help hand weed this site, or any of the others we have been revegetating over the last 10 years along the creek corridor between Coburg Lake and Goleen Street, please feel free to do so by yourself.  If doing so, please ensure that you keep a safe 1.5 metres away from the Merri Creek path, to reduce our risks of close contact and transmission of COVID-19.

If you do want to adopt a patch or area to hand weed along our beautiful Merri Creek, knowing what is and isn’t a weed can sometimes be tricky, especially when it comes to native grasses and groundcover plants.  I encourage you to err on the side of caution, i.e. if you are not sure, please leave it in the ground.  You can also take a photo and email it to me and I can try and help you identify it, or get help to identify it for you.

I hope you all stay safe, lots of hand washing, social distancing, eating healthy food and finding ways to get in some exercise and keep mentally and emotionally well,

Take care.

Emma x

Emma Hopkins

Founder of Friends of Coburg Lake and Surrounds

m: 0490 368 209    e: emma_hopkins@optusnet.com.au