Black Gully Music Festival 2022
10am SAT NOV 9th

Every year Armidale folk gather at Black Gully (behind NERAM) to celebrate community, music and biodiversity
Armidale Vegetable Sowing Guide
This guide shows planting time periods that should allow you to get a crop in Armidale.
Lightbulb Moments
Take control of your electrical use & costs with this Resource Guide Online PDF and Print PDF for welfare agencies to assist clients, colleagues and community.

Armidale Community Farmers Market

Armidale Community Farmers Market is on first and third Sundays of the month at Curtis Park kicking off at around 8am and going through to full article »

CLIMATE MATTERS: Compost

Compost is the ultimate plant food and soil amendment and the secret to healthy soil and healthy plants. Compost improves soil structure, protects plants from full article »

Swarm at Armidale Community Preschool

Armidale Community Preschool is a community-based service in the centre of Armidale. Our preschool environment is natural, consisting of native and exotic plants and trees, full article »

CLIMATE MATTERS: Fermentation

Humans have stored food for lean times probably for as long as we’ve been around. Some foods come to us in a readily storable form full article »

Drummond Park meadow in flower

Hello friends

Armidale Regional Council has let native wildflowers and grasses flower and set seed in part of Drummond Park. It used to be full article »

2020 Home Grown Garden Tour SAT 29 FEB

It’s on again! Home Grown Garden Tour (Survivor 9th Edition) from SAT 29 FEB to SUN 1 MARCH 2020

All gardens are located within full article »

SLA stall at Saumarez markets is going bananas

The SLA/Community Garden/Armidale Local Food stall (the one with the yellow roof) has sourced some supplies from Coffs Harbour independent producers. They will have full article »

Black Gully Festival 2019

On the 9thNovember the Black Gully Festival will be held in the parklands behind New England Art Museum in Armidale. This is the 9th festival, full article »

Armidale Farmers Market now at Saumarez

The Armidale Farmers’ Market is now on the Second Sunday of the month at the beautiful Saumarez Homestead kicking off at around 8am and going full article »

Can you give the Regent Honeyeater 3 minutes of your time?

Taking this 3-question survey could help save the species!

The Regent Honeyeater is a unique Australian songbird on the verge of extinction, with fewer full article »

June Forum: Drought in Armidale

The next SLA Forum, at Kent House on Thursday 6 June, will be on Community Weathering: ‘response-ability’, environmental justice, and climate full article »

Growers Forum: New weekly produce market starting in Bellingen

Are you a grower or food producer?

Would you be interested in having a stall in our upcoming produce only Market in Bellingen?

A new full article »

Armidale Farmers’ Market

The Armidale Farmers’ Market is on first and third Sundays of the month at Curtis Park kicking off at around 8am and going through to full article »

Grounded Gathering 2019 at Deepwater

Grounded Gathering is back for it’s 4th edition. This time we will gather in Ngarabal country, just outside of Deepwater (NSW).

Our annual full article »

December Party: Bring a friend and finger food to share

Let’s celebrate all the good sustainable culture in Armidale with friends and lovely finger food. We will provide drinks, corn hole, table soccer, music, full article »

Community Planting Day and Celebration

When: Saturday October 27th, 2pm – 7pm Where: Armidale Aboriginal Community Garden, Narwan Village

All Armidale community members and visitors are welcome to join full article »

Garden Design with Native Plants — 4 Open Gardens

Australian Plant Society Armidale and District Group invite you to a free, interesting weekend on 15-16th September

Ben Walcott, Leader of the Garden full article »

AURG Maintenance Mondays

We plan at this stage for the next two Mondays (27 August and 3 September) to continue working at this same site, just upstream from full article »

Armidale Aboriginal Community Garden

Remembering Dark Town: Experimental History, Decolonisation and Archival Activism at Armidale Aboriginal Community Garden

Presented by Dr Kate Wright

full article »

Climate Matters: Armidale Community Garden

Six years ago a group of enthusiastic volunteers took up the challenge of turning six abandoned tennis courts into a community garden. Armidale Community full article »

Volunteer Times: Armidale Aboriginal Community Garden, April & May 

Wednesday afternoons: 4pm – 5.30pm

Sunday afternoons: 3pm – 4.30pm

Come along to help with weekly weeding, planting and general community garden upkeep.

All helpers full article »

February Special Forum: Sustainable Living by Design

Sustainable Living Armidale is beginning 2018 with a very special forum at a special location and earlier time.

When: Thursday 1st February Time: 6pm Where: full article »

Lost Plot Community Garden Port Macquarie

During the recent Social Developers Network workshop, I visited the Armidale community gardens and met Jo Leonie. I thought you may like to see how full article »

Armidale Farmers’ Market

The Armidale Farmers’ Market is on first and third Sundays of the month at Curtis Park kicking off at around 8am and going through to full article »

December Party: Come celebrate 10 years of SLA @ Armidale Community Garden

It’s been 10 years since the conception of SLA — Come celebrate the milestone.

Bring everything except a chair (we will supply). Everything being food, full article »