Futuresteading

Jade Miles, best known as co-host of the inspiring Futuresteading podcast, is stopping by Djaara Country to promote her new book “Futuresteading: Live Like Tomorrow Matters”. Her book is full of practical skills, recipes and rituals for a simpler life, with gorgeous photos from her family's property Black Barn farm. 

HRN and Hepburn Wholefoods Collective invite you to join in conversation with Jade, who has been working on community initiatives in her hometown of Beechworth, and beyond, for decades. 

Thursday 19th August

6pm - 7:30pm

Hepburn Wholefoods Collective (Daylesford Lawn Tennis Club), 11 Perrins St, Daylesford

Free event

On the night, we'll be chatting with Jade about local food landscapes, how to build resilience with a community food co-operative and the challenges that tourist-destination regional towns face.

 

This is Covid-safe event. Numbers are limited. No bookings are being taken so be sure to be on time to secure a seat. See ya there!

April Apis: Backyard Beekeeping Group Meet-Up

Hi bee lovers and honey suckles.

Do you have a garden and now you're ready to keep bees to ensure pollination?

Do you love the idea of harvesting your own honey?

Have you heard about colony collapse and want to play your part to ensure the biodiversity and strength of European honey bees?

Please join us for a backyard beekeeping workshop with Ange Enbom and her daughter Millie:

This coming Sunday April 25 (ANZAC day) 

3pm - 5pm

6 Tierneys Lane Daylesford

$5 entry

Angela Enbom and Millie Enbom-Goad keep bees on their sixth-generation family farm. Photos: Edwina Williams

This is a community event and all are welcome to attend.

April Wild Fennel: Let's Make Syrup

Hi everybody,

Please join us on Saturday April 3 for a herbal syrup making session. 10am - 12pm at 6 Tierneys Lane in Daylesford.

Please bring along: 

• a jar of your favourite honey 
• one or more of the following: thyme, horehound, elderberries, mullein (dried), mallow leaves, plantain, violet leaf, rose hips, fresh ginger, peppermint, cinnamon
• a couple of clean jars or bottles to take your syrups home 
• if you have, a couple of pieces of muslin/cheese cloth that we can use for straining (which you don't mind if they get stained).

This is a free workshop and everybody is welcome to attend.

This will be our final session with facilitator Rosie Cooper as she is moving out of the Hepburn Shire. We are going to miss you so much, Rosie! Thank you for all the gifts you have shared with our community. Please bring a dish to share for a farewell lunch following the workshop, and a plate and cutlery etc.

Land Makes Life - this coming Saturday

A huge thank you to everyone who donated to the crowd funding campaign. Because of your generosity, Land Makes Life is going ahead this Saturday night at the Daylesford Town Hall:

This is a free event and everybody is welcome to attend. 

Please bring a plate to share for supper - finger food only and no single-use plastic, please.

Please note: numbers will be restricted and social distancing is required according to covid-19 regulations. 

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Local Food and Farming Networking Evening

Do you want to be a part of the localised farming and food production future in Central Victoria?

Central Victoria is a region brimming with passionate people looking to get started in farming. It's also a region with an abundance of resources available to make that happen: potential land opportunities, keen investors, fantastic existing enterprises, bustling farmers markets, skilled individuals, tradespeople, mentors- all the pieces of the puzzle are right here, we just need to fit them together!

This is an event for anyone in Central Victoria (or interested in moving to the region) who wants to work towards a resilient, localised food future and who holds a piece of the puzzle to get there. Got a farming dream? A few (or a few hundred) acres you'd like to see managed and improved? Some business expertise? A nest egg you've been looking to invest? Come along and see where your piece might fit in the puzzle, or potentially find someone who holds the piece you've been looking for.

Date: Friday, March 26th

Where: The Belvedere at Jonai Farm and Meatsmiths, 129 Morgantis Road Eganstown

Time: 6pm

Cost: Free

RSVP essential.

All attendees will be given the opportunity to share their answers the following questions:

1. What is your local farming or food production interest, idea or dream?

2. What puzzle pieces do you have to offer and potentially share? This might be a business plan, land, capital, labour, skills, connections...anything you can think of.

3. What puzzle pieces are you currently missing to make your idea or dream a reality?

In the first half of the evening we'll share our answers to these questions with the group and build a valuable resource detailing what's on offer in the community. In the second half of the evening we'll share food together and have the opportunity to make connections and plans with others who might hold our missing piece.

Please bring some food or drink to share and your prepared answers to the three questions above.

The purpose of the event is to discover where our ideas might fit together and where we might be able to help each other out along the way. The direction we head from here is up to all of us. Looking forward to connecting!

*Please note this event will be held in an outdoor area. Numbers will be restricted and social distancing will be enforced according to COVID-19 regulations. Please RSVP.

Land Makes Life

Four years ago we hosted an incredible event in our local Town Hall, Indigenous storyteller and historian Bruce Pascoe in conversation with David Holmgren, permaculture co-originator. A few years later we held another special event, a conversation between Dja Dja Wurrung storyteller Bec Phillips, David Holmgren and US food systems critic and scholar Eric Holt Giménez. 

On March 20th we are hosting the third event in the series – a conversation between Tyson Yunkaporta, an academic, cultural critic, and author who belongs to the Apalech Clan in far north Queensland and Anitra Nelson, an interdisciplinary researcher in the social sciences, with specific interests in community-based sustainability, environmental justice, housing studies, and non-monetary futures. 

As with the majority of events we organise, we are inviting people to attend this event free of charge. So we can still pay our speakers and the person performing the Welcome to Country, we are setting up a crowd funding campaign to raise some modest funds. (Please note: the below media may not show up if reading this in your inbox.)

We aim to produce this conversation as a free-to-air video and a podcast. Whether you can get to the talk in person or watch it online later, please consider paying it forward by supporting the campaign. Thank you to everyone who has donated thus far!

We hope to see you on March 20th at 7pm. Please join us for a shared autumn equinox supper following the event. (Finger food only please.)

Pickling day wrap-up

Wow, what a day!! After a year of not having events, we were all busting at the seams to gather and ferment collectively. Thank you to all those who came along, to Edward from Adsum Farmhouse for growing the most beautiful gherkins around - they really were the stars of the show, to the gherkins themselves, and to the effervescent Mara Ripani for taking these photos for us to share:

 

Sowing the seeds of new things

Hi everyone,

Please note the Community Pickling Day has had a venue change from Adsum Farm to the Senior Citizens Hall (behind the Daylesford Town Hall). Please enter via Vincent Street.

Due to restrictions, places are limited so please make sure you book by emailing daylesfordcultureclub@gmail.com

Please notes that masks have to be worn by all adults attending.

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Hepburn Seed Savers

The Hepburn Seed Savers are meeting every third Sunday afternoon from 2pm at the Glenlyon Hall starting from Sunday February 21. Come along and help pack and swap seeds, and meet fellow like-minded seed lovers.

Hope to see you there!

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Forest and Free

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Ballarat Tool Library

Congratulations to Ballarat for recently launching their tool library!

From their website:

The Ballarat Tool Library is a volunteer-led initiative that provides access to the tools needed to repair and care for your home and belongings while saving you money from having to buy new tools you may only use once or twice.

We provide a local library of tools - both used and new - garden tools, construction tools, kitchen tools, woodworking tools and artist tools. If it’s a tool we’ll try and stock it as we grow and expand!

We believe that bringing the community together to share resources helps us work towards a sustainable future.

Plus everyone deserves the right to build and repair the things they own - not just those who can afford the tools.

We hope to follow in your footsteps, Ballarat, and one day have a tool library in Hepburn Shire.

And we are back!!

Hello everyone!

We are so excited to be back and offering free workshops again, now that we can gather together in community.

First up for the year we have Culture Club's Community Pickling Day:

Once again we are thrilled to be partnering with Glenlyon's Adsum Farmhouse who are growing gherkins especially for the day. This year Edward and Fiona from Adsum are kindly opening their gates to host the event too. Fingers crossed the weather warms up so the gherkins ripen in time! Either way, the event will go ahead.

Due to restrictions places are absolutely limited. So please book your spot by emailing daylesfordcultureclub@gmail.com

Event details and a list of things to bring will be emailed to you when your booking is confirmed.

Hope you can join us!

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Daylesford Community Food Gardens Monthly Working Bee

You are cordially invited to join the community food gardeners at their next monthly working bee: Saturday February 13 from 10am - 12pm at the library garden.

Come and meet like-minded people, while we tend the soil and seeds together, growing free organic, liberated food for all to share.

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Wild Fennel: Hepburn Herbal Group

 

Wild Fennel is back and we can't wait!! Please join us for the first Wild Fennel of the year: Saturday February 20 from 9.30am - 12.30pm at the Daylesford skatepark community garden.

Please bring a rug to sit on, a thermos of your favourite herbal tea + cup and a burning herbal question to ask facilitator Rosie Cooper.

More info about the group here.

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Daylesford Repair Café

Please join us for the first Repair Café for the year on Sunday February 21 from 1pm - 4pm at Victoria Park Pavilion.

More details here.

Hope you can join us.

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Family and Kids Mountain Bike Rides

The Bike Space Daylesford is hosting its first family-friendly ride of the year on Tuesday February 2  from 4.30pm. Meet at 13 Camp Street (directly behind the Daylesford Neighbourhood Centre).

This is a family friendly hour ride around trails in Daylesford. Children under 10 must be accompanied by an adult.

This is a free regular Tuesday group during school term aimed at getting more parents and kids enjoying the benefits of mountain bike riding.

A huge thanks to Eric Red for running this group. Pls let Eric know if you're coming along. More info here.

 

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Daylesford Swing Dancing Society

The Daylesford Swing Dancing Society is a recently-established community group for and by the people of Daylesford with the intention of learning to swing dance in a fun, free and inclusive environment. There are no memberships, or fees (except for perhaps a small donation for hall or venue hire). Whatever your skill level, age or gender, you are welcome to come and share the joy of dancing!

For info about when and where the group will meet, please see here.

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Apis: Natural beekeeping group

Do you keep bees or want to keep bees? Do you want to know more about these wondrous creatures that pollinate our gardens and forests? Apis is a group of open-minded and open-hearted people open to learning and sharing knowledges around all things bees. Please put the afternoon of Sunday April 25 in your calendars for a gathering. More details to come. 

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Land Share Central Victoria 

Did you know there is not a single property for long-term rent in Daylesford? How did we get here? How can we let this happen?

The Land Share Central Victoria FB group is a place to connect those who have access to land with those who would like access to land. Spare rooms, granny flats, tiny houses, bungalows. Rental agreements paid in cash or vegetables. Whatever you are seeking or offering, let's get together to share conversations about what housing equality and land justice means for all of us.

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Democratic Renewal in Hepburn Shire

Community Voice is a group of Hepburn Shire people who strive to help our community engage in ‘active democracy’. The group: 

• flags to the community upcoming council issues, e.g. around policy, planning, local laws
• collects information from the community about their current issues and barriers, then formally shares that information with the wider community and the shire's councillors
• promotes and trials active democracy methods within the shire, i.e. ways of ensuring public participation in council decision making.

Sign up for the blog via the above website link, and/or join over a 1000 locals on the Community Voice Facebook page to stay informed and add your voice.

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Dates for your calendar

Tuesday February 2 - Family and Kids Mountain Bike Ride
Saturday Feb 6 - Community Pickling Day
Saturday Feb 13 - Daylesford Community Food Gardens Working bee
Saturday February 20 - Wild Fennel
Sunday February 21 - Daylesford Repair Café
Sunday April 25 - Apis: Natural beekeeping group