Our new bee garden right on the front corner benefitted from a mulch delivery on Friday. Thanks Bert and team at Darebin Council. It is looking great!

And … in the rest of our garden we’ve got lovely flowers 🌸 of all colours … and blossom emerging on our fruit trees. Happy nearly spring days.

Thanks to everyone who came along to our first series of repair workshops. They were super!

We’ve got another series in Term 4 … we’re just confirming the dates now and will let you know when they are up for booking in.

Thanks Simone at Richmond Community Learning Centre for applying for the Sustainability Victoria grant that is subsidising these workshops and thanks for sharing the delivery hours with us … and other Yarra Neighbourhood Houses.

Speaking of which, this week Yarra Council will be endorsing the new Yarra Neighbourhood House Partnership Strategy. Hooray! It is just great as a tiny grassroots organisation to have such a strong strategic partnership with local government. With regular funding built in.

And of course it is wonderful to have such lovely supportive colleagues across the houses.

How lovely are these little seed packs created by our gardeners on Friday!

They’re out in the seed library ready for neighbourhood planting … if you’re ready to start your spring garden pop past!

Darebin is reviewing their waste strategy in relation to regular household collection, hard rubbish collection, public bins and the circular economy.

If you’d like to comment on any of this click here before 7 September and add your two bobs worth!

Here’s an invitation from Natalie at Darebin Council. Thanks Natalie.

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Given the recent climate news from around the world we know it’s a good time to be connecting with others. We are sensing a groundswell of community interest around taking climate action – electrification in particular.

So we are inviting you to hear climate campaigner and author of Together We Can, Claire O’Rourke share stories and experiences of her community’s steps towards supporting everyone to get to an electric future faster.

Join this conversation to think about how Darebin communities can learn and support each other to electrify our homes and businesses.

In this session we will also have time for stories from the floor so we can hear what folks are thinking about and doing around Darebin.

I think you will really enjoy Claire and her stories – she has been all over the country and met some amazing people that are doing great things!

For further details and to register – please follow this link.

Date: Tuesday 1 August

Time: 6.30pm – 8pm

Location: Preston Library