On Wednesday, Julie who runs our North East Neighbourhood House Network organised for a busload of colleagues to visit all the Darebin Houses. We were the morning tea hosts.

It was great to be able show off the renovations and talk in person about all the things we do in our community. Thanks Julie for organising this.

We’re looking forward to life drawing at Alphington Arts on Thursday night from 7pm. You can join up here if you are interested and come along for a fun social night with an arty focus. Make local arty friends. Learn from others.

This program runs 4 times a semester (at the beginning and end of each term), and for our second session we will have a go at life drawing which is always challenging and interesting. Clare has organised the model.

BYO food and snacks. Also if life drawing is your thing you can bring your own supplies. Otherwise we will have some on hand here.

Looking forward to seeing everyone again!

Fairfield Clothing Exchange at Fairfield Primary School Gym!

Did you know that in Australia, 6 tonnes of clothing are discarded every 10 minutes? Let’s make a difference together!

Join The Clothing Exchange & Village Greening for the Inaugural Fairfield Clothing Exchange:

Date: Sunday, October 27th
Time: 2:30 PM
Location: Fairfield Primary School Gym

We’ll be preserving again on Tuesday 17 September from 1-3pm. Come along and help us cook up a storm!

Last month we sold out of winter fruit chutney and only have 2 jars of zucchini pickles left - along with some marmalade and preserved lemon. This month we will be making tomato 🍅 relish or chutney, finishing off the lemons and hopefully the Indian lime pickles we made previously will be ready to finish off too.

There are a group of lovely locals who come along for preserves to help out with our fundraising and make some local friends in our low key environment.

And it is not all hard work! Sit down for a coffee or tea along the way and have a chat. Anyone is most welcome to join in. Just let us know to expect you if you can.

We had a lovely time on Thursday morning making citrus vinegar … and we well and truly are getting through all the donated lemons 🍋 now. It has been great to think about all the ways we could use them.

Thanks everyone who came along.

There seems to be a real Interest in our community for low key sustainable living focused workshops which is great! We’re always looking to run new interesting things that people are keen to join in.

So … please don’t hesitate let us know if you have other ideas for workshops like this. And we’ll schedule them in if we can.