Soil to Supper workshops in Tamworth

Sustainable Namoi Living is presenting 3 workshops in Tamworth this Saturday 18th May, 9am-4pm Lifeline Centre, 63 Denne St, West Tamworth, bookings essential by Wednesday 15th May Workshop 1 (2½ hrs) Building Living Soils with Tim Marshall open heap composting –...

Thanks from the Community Garden

Thanks heaps to all who helped make our Community Garden fundraiser last Sunday such a success; Rowan and his team from Neram Harvest did an awesome job, and behind the scenes the Goldfish Bowl made a huge contribution; Ultimate BBQ produced some delicious food with...

UNE Landcare and AURG working bee

UNE Landcare is undertaking another tree planting on Sunday 12th May at Sport UNE.  The area we will be planting is north of the creek right next to the Sport UNE playing fields.  Other than vehicles with trailers you will have to park your car in the Sport UNE car...

Climate Game Change – Armidale event

The Australian Youth Climate Coalition, or AYCC, is a generation-wide movement to solve the climate crisis. The local New England branch is a group of committed young people, mostly but not exclusively uni students, taking part in that movement. As part of a National...

Curtain and pelmet workshops

SLA’s ‘I Can Do It’ project is holding curtain and pelmet making workshops. CURTAIN MAKING GROUP 1: Fridays May 3 & 17,  9:30-12:00 GROUP 2: Saturdays May 4 & 18 1:30-4:00 Both groups can work on their curtains on Saturday, May 25 between...

Save Our Macleay River

Tour of Halls Peak and Hillgrove Area Mine Sites    25-26 May 2013 Day1 (times are approximate) Leave Kempsey               8.00 am Bellbrook                       8.45 am Georges Junction Morning Tea                   10.00 – 10.20 am Raspberry Road turnoff meet...

Big Ag Myths

We hear more and more these days that in order to feed the world’s growing population we need more of what industrial agriculture dishes up – chemicals, GMOs and so on. Here’s a neat little film that suggests there may be some holes in the arguments...