If you wish to join in the fun, please go to our events page for dates and times for the week you can help.
You can also contact Melor on 0432 460 862 or e-mail volunteer@fmvonline.com
Over the years we have developed excellent partnerships with other groups who support increasing native vegetation. Landowners including Brimbank and Maribyrnong Councils and Parks Victoria. We also work closely with other organizations who help to fund projects including Melbourne Water.
Working together we achieve much more than working separately.
This year our goal is to revegetate with up to 20,000 new native plants
Brimbank Council
Caroline Chisholm Reserve
This year we will continue to partner with Brimbank Council to maintain and improve the Caroline Chisholm Reserve at 46 Flora Street, Keilor. The reserve is notable for its historical association with Caroline Chisholm, whose shelter shed system supported migrants and goldfields travellers in the 1850s. Heritage sources identify the Keilor site as the location of the former Caroline Chisholm shelter sheds, giving the reserve significance beyond its role as a neighbourhood green space.
Today, the reserve functions as a community open space with landscape and habitat value, and it also supports local environmental and community activities.
This year in partnership with Brimbank City Council we will hosts community tree planting and revegetation events at Caroline Chisholm on the 1st Wednesday each month, with our major event as part of the World Environment Day celebrations. The current focus is on planting understorey vegetation and restoring the local wildlife corridor along the river.
More information www.brimbank.vic.gov.au/living-here/our-environment/trees-and-nature-strips-brimbank/tree-planting-programs
Maribyrnong Council
Burndap Park
Burndap Park is a large open space reserve in Maribyrnong, centred around Burndap Lake and linked to the Maribyrnong River corridor. It is known for its open parkland, native vegetation, and birdlife, making it a popular local destination for walking, relaxing, and enjoying the waterfront setting.
The park connects with shared walking and cycling paths, including routes along the Maribyrnong River Trail, and is generally described as flat and family friendly. Visitors can expect features such as picnic and barbecue areas, a playground, open grassed spaces, and views across the river and wetlands, including Frog’s Hollow Wetlands nearby. Overall, Burndap Park offers a mix of recreation, nature observation, and easy outdoor access close to central Melbourne.
This year our goal is to work with the Maribyrnong Council and revegetate with 2,000 new plants as part of the understory planting.
Maribyrnong Council
Cranwell Reserve
Cranwell Reserve is a public park located at Cranwell St. Braybrook which is known for its elevated views over the Maribyrnong Valley and provides access to the nearby river trail.
For many years we have partnered with the Maribyrnong Council to restore the native vegetation.
Historically, the site was purchased in 1976 from an old piggery site and converted into parkland. Over time, the reserve changed from a sparse open space into a more family-oriented destination.
Today, the park is valued for its open green space, playground, walking access, and dog-friendly features. Recent improvements have included an all-weather path linking the reserve to the Maribyrnong River Trail.
Our goal this year is to work with the Maribyrnong Council and revegetate with up to 6,500 plants as part of the understory planting.
More information Council website
Jacks Magazine
Jack’s Magazine Channel area is part of a heritage site in Maribyrnong on the banks of the Maribyrnong River. The surrounding area is better known for river corridors, parklands, trails, and open green spaces than for formal botanical gardens, which gives it a distinctive mix of industrial heritage and natural landscape.
Overall, the parks and gardens near Jack’s Magazine are best understood as part of a connected river landscape rather than as standalone formal gardens. Their appeal lies in the combination of heritage, open space, trail access, and river scenery, making the area well suited to visitors who want a quiet outdoor setting with historical character.
Our major goal for this area this year is to revegetate with up to 6,000 new plants.
Pipemakers Park
For many years we have helped the Maribyrnong Council at Pipemakers Park an eight-hectare public reserve in Maribyrnong, situated along the Maribyrnong River in Melbourne’s inner west. The park is recognised for its national historical, social and architectural significance, combining open parkland with a rare concentration of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century industrial heritage. Its setting and surviving structures provide an important record of Melbourne’s industrial development and the evolution of manufacturing in Victoria.
The site reflects more than 140 years of innovation and mixed industrial use. Today, Pipemakers Park brings together heritage buildings, wetlands, walking paths, public art and interpretive community spaces, including the eco-museum. As a result, it serves not only as a recreational landscape but also as a place of education and cultural memory, linking the environmental, industrial and social history of the Maribyrnong area.
This year we will continue to maintain the area and add more plants.
Parks Victoria
Brimbank Park
Brimbank Park is a large metropolitan park in Keilor East in Melbourne’s north-west, managed by Parks Victoria. Set along the Maribyrnong River, the park is known for its broad river valley, open grasslands, River Red Gums, and a network of walking and cycling trails. It also forms part of an Aboriginal cultural landscape connected to the Wurundjeri Peoples.
The park is popular for picnics, walking, cycling, birdwatching, and nature play. Visitors can use picnic areas, gas barbecues, shelters, toilets, and the café, while children and families are drawn to the inclusive playscape designed for a wide range of abilities. Wildlife commonly seen in the park includes parrots, galahs, wetland birds, possums, wallabies, and reptiles.
This year we will continue to work with Parks Victoria to plant more trees. and restore and maintain the native vegetation.
