Transition Streets Romsey and Veg Action Macedon Ranges are excited to give you an opportunity to get to know your grower. Sunday 1 May, we’re hosting a farm crawl in the Romsey-Lancefield region.
There’s a lot of information on the internet about “what” you should do to maintain your garden, yet this abundance of information often creates confusion. When you understand the “why” behind how your garden grows, then gardening becomes easy and fun!
Budding and grafting fruit trees is a useful and surprisingly straight-forward process. Discover the magic of adding new varieties to existing fruit trees or propagating your own trees to plant or share.
Mel Husada will take participants through the basics of pruning for fruit production, tree health and maintenance with hands-on pruning to make sense of the theoretical information.
Share tomato inspired dishes, swap your excess summer veg, learn how to make tomato sauce & meet new and old friends in a gorgeous garden.
Veg Action is hosting a Zucchini Harvest Brunch. Yep you heard right, we are going to have a brunch all about zucchinis, where everyone brings a dish to share. We’ll be so inspired by everyone’s dishes that our love for the good old zucchini will be reaffirmed.
Check out properties from all around Australia in a virtual event organised by Renew … places we’d never dream of being able to get to in one day.
Homes will be presented from 12th September leading up to the main event on Sunday September 20th … an event like a virtual conference, with a range of presentation and “question and answer” sessions running concurrently.
Photo: O’Connor (ACT) dual occupancy, supplied by Renew
The Veg Action Winter Veg Recipe Challenge is a celebration of local, seasonal plant-based food. Submit a plant-based recipe by July 31st, 2020 featuring one or more winter vegetables to win a $150 voucher from Farmers’ Market Online. #rangesrecipechallenge
The Sustainable Homes Action Group, with support from the Renewable Energy Action Group, is planning a morning of retrofitting at the Woodend Neighbourhood House. We’ll be working on draughtproofing windows and doors and applying secondary glazing (a layer of Perspex inside the window glass as a DIY alternative to double glazing). Let us know if you’d like to join in, by email to susthomes@mrsg.org.au, by about 19th June, so we can organise teams mindful of social distancing requirements.
The WNH Winter Energy Improvement Project is supported by the Federal Government “Stronger Communities” Programme.
Be part of a community- led planning process to guide local action on climate change in the wider Woodend district. The project involves a few facilitated workshops over the next few months, to develop a plan for the Woodend community to act on climate change at the local level.
Come along to this free and inspiring workshop aiming to help us all live a little more sustainably. This session will cover bottling, drying, spicing, pickling, preserving, freezing and more.
Find out how you can inform and guide local action on climate change, for the Woodend district, at this event run by Macedon Ranges Shire Council and facilitated by Amy and Gavin from Hip V. Hype Sustainability
Professional gardener, passionate garden communicator and author Simon Rickard introduces the weird and wonderful world of heritage fruit and vegetables. A celebration of their beauty, diversity and history with tips on how to grow. (An event from the City of Greater Bendigo and Goldfields Libraries)
Join us for a festive time creating upcycled wrapping options and gift tags, chatting, and snacking on Christmas treats. Bring along your gifts to wrap if you really want to get ahead of the game! Thoughtful, sustainable and fun.
Eight homes will be open in and close to the Macedon Ranges, with owners enthusiastic about sharing their experience at making their homes more comfortable, more energy efficient and cheaper to run.
If you are in Melbourne on Wednesday with an hour to spare between 10.30 and 11.30, why not go along to hear a panel discussion on designing a sustainable future, as part of Melbourne Knowledge Week?
Free event - book tickets via the Melbourne Knowledge Week site.
Milkwood are running a two-day introduction to permaculture course in Hepburn on 16-17 February. Woodend Permaculture Garden have negotiated a 25% discount for MRSG members. Contact Sara on permaculture@mrsg.org.au to receive the discount code which you can use when you enrol on https://www.milkwood.net/course/introduction-to-permaculture-190216/
In Aussie Street, David Holmgren - permaculture co-originator - presents the history and future of suburbia as a serious but humorous presentation.
How might our neighbourhoods be different in the future? Find out at this free event presented by the Moonee Valley City Council as part of the National Sustainable Living Festival 2019.
Earthships are unique dwellings constructed with significant reuse of materials.
Daryl Taylor is opening Kinship (the Kinglake Earthship) for tours on Saturdays in February. There will a comprehensive presentation on the site history and evolution and the application of Biotecture, Permaculture and Regenerative eco-design principles and practices followed by an extensive guided tour and an in-depth and highly practical 'how to .. ' Q & A.
Landscaping can play an important part in making your home sustainable, by providing shade, directing wind, breezes and frost.
Pick up some tips on native plant seed collection at a free two-hour seed collecting workshop being run by Mount Alexander Shire Council at Campbells Creek this Saturday, 24 November.
Sunbury Library is hosting a session with Julie Weatherhead from Peppermint Ridge Farm.
Learn more about Australian Native Foods: which plants will grow best in your garden, how to propagate them and how to use them in your everyday cooking. Plus, sample ingredients featured in her book “Australian Native Food Harvest: a Guide for the Passionate Cook and Gardener”.
