Let’s float together

by | 23 Feb 2011 | Autumn Festival, Event

The Armidale Autumn Parade is on Saturday 19th of March. We need lots of people for our award winning community float. The theme this year for our parade entry is ‘Where in the world does our food come from?’. We will amass at 93 Brown Street on Wednesday...

GASLAND is coming to the Belgrave Cinema

by | 23 Feb 2011 | Event

There will be only one screening, 7pm Thursday February 24th at the Belgrave Twin Cinema. GASLAND is an award-winning documentary about the unbridled extraction of natural gas in the USA. When Josh Fox, a theatre director and part-time banjo player, is approached by a...

Another good reason for Renewable Energy

by | 22 Feb 2011 | Event, SLAM

The Gas Rush, the Four Corners program presented by Kerry O’Brien on Monday 21 February, is another frightening indictment of the rapidly expanding gas mining industry in Australia. A coalition is forming to call a halt to the ‘gas rush’. You can...

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...