3rd Annual Home-grown Garden Tour

by | 20 Feb 2011 | Event, Local Food, SLAM

Whatever you do, don’t miss ALF’s 3rd Home-grown Garden Tour on the first weekend in March. This is a great opportunity to see 10 productive backyard gardens in Armidale and gather heaps of good ideas and useful info about compost, bees, worm farms, fruit...

Energymark hits ARMIDALE!

by | 18 Feb 2011 | Event

Hiya everybody! thought you might be interested in participating in a very special research program developed by the CSIRO. It’s called Energymark! In the next couple of weeks I will be holding the first group get-together for all who are interested in getting...

Urban Rivercare Working Bee: Sun 13 Feb

by | 9 Feb 2011 | Event, SLAM

The AURG is undertaking a maintenance day at the Rologas Playing Fields (the old Wicklow area!) and surrounding area plantings (Holmes Ave and Douglas St). This will involve weeding in and around plants and repairing stakes and cartons as required. We chose this area...

Home power savings program: Fri 25 Feb

by | 9 Feb 2011 | Event, SLAM

The NSW Government is offering a program to help families reduce their power bills. Armidale Dumaresq Council has organised a presentation  at Kent House on FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25TH from 12:30-2pm. 50 Households will be offered a free home audit, as well as stand-by...

Wool Expo Luncheon by Slow Food New England

by | 9 Feb 2011 | Event

Slow Food New England will once again be hosting the Sunday lunch at this year’s Wool Expo. This will be a terrific opportunity to celebrate our best local produce and wines, as well as enjoying a fabulous fashion show and other entertainment. Numbers will be...

Food the focus for our next Tuesday Forum

by | 28 Jan 2011 | Event, Monthly Forum, SLAM

When it comes to sustainability there’s nothing more critical than food, and our current food system is a lot less resilient than we might suppose. It has led to farmers being driven off their land by low returns and rising costs, soils losing their fertility...

ALF Meeting February 2011

by | 27 Jan 2011 | Event, Local Food, SLAM

Venue: Armidale Community Cottage, 3 Alexander St, Armidale New participants are always welcome. Just come along to a meeting, or contact Jo Leoni for further information. We try to keep the meeting as brief as possible and then people can stay and socialise longer if...

ArmLETS Get-together

by | 27 Jan 2011 | Event, SLAM

ArmLETS is having it’s first get-together next Wednesday afternoon and would love you to come along. Now that we have exceeded 20 members, we thought it would be nice to have a get together. If you are wanting a job done, it’s much easier to ask someone...