Local Sustainability Groups

The 2019 Calendar is a great gift idea for Christmas, with a collection of beautiful photos and a host of significant environmental dates for 2019. Each month, there is an opportunity to learn about an organisation or initiative working to help connect people with nature.
It's so much more than a beautiful A3 wall calendar: it is also an opportunity to stimulate interest and conversation, and provide a point of connection.

If you would like a calendar please contact Peter Noble via email

Congratulations to FORP committee for another successful Smart Living and Building Expo hgeld at Royal Park Buninyong.

This annual event again attracted a crowd of well over 1000 visitors.

Amongst the 58 stalls there was a large variety of goods and services to investigate, and the crowd was busy and constant.

The stalls included sustainable designing and building,  electric cars,  sustainability and other community groups, plants, and a great variety of sustainable products.

The Grampians Central West Waste and Recovery Group were this years major Sponsor. They were pleased with positive interactions they had with the visitors.

This tied in with this year's theme of  "Waste : War & Peace".

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Food Is Free Laneway Ballarat - cnr Ripon St & Warrior Place

Sharing food with the local community, beautify the landscape & encouraging community spirit.

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Food is free Vegie Verge

A community vegetable patch producing locally grown free organic produce for members of the local Ballarat community.

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Food is free Smythsdale

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Ballarat Wholefoods Collective

Ballarat Wholefoods Collective is a volunteer based not-for-profit group offering a range of seasonal, organic, non-perishable and local staple foods.

Membership details can be found on their web site.

The collective als runs some food related courses, for example, Cheese Making.

http://ballaratwholefoodscollective.org/

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Eureka Mums is a volunteer-run, not-for-profit organisation based in Ballarat, Australia. 

We are part of a larger group made up of St Kilda Mums, established in February 2009 and Geelong Mums established in April 2013. Eureka Mums started in February 2014.

We rehome new and pre-loved baby goods and nursery equipment to families in need.

We believe that by reusing and recycling much-loved babies’ and children’s gear, we not only share the joy of motherhood with each other, but we save the earth’s precious resources too.

These donations are distributed to families experiencing hardship in Melbourne and surrounding towns through our partnerships with maternal and child health nurses and local social service agencies.

Go to their web site for how and what to donate.  There are lists of what is needed right now, and a list of what CAN and CAN'T be donated.

http://www.eurekamums.org/

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http://ballaratpermacultureguild.org/

Ballarat Permaculture Guild provides a focus for people in and around Ballarat who are interested in living more sustainably through implementing permaculture design principles and practices in their daily lives.

We are a practical group working together to increase our skills and experience. One of our priorities is to create opportunities for other members of the community to learn about permaculture or the practical skills that go with it! If Permaculture is new to you, our Permaculture page outlines some of the strategies Permaculture offers towards building a more sustainable and locally resilient future.

You don't need to know anything about permaculture to join us! We'd love to meet you, come along to one of our regular get-togethers - check their facebook events: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ballaratpermieguild/events/

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Web Site: http://ballaratcommunitygarden.org.au/

The Ballarat Community Gardens runs a monthly produce swap on the first Saturday of the month, and many food growing, cooking, preserving workshops and demonstrations, (see the web site, above for details of the next events).

At the Ballarat Show, in November each year, the Ballarat Community Garden and the BREAZE Local Food Group are side by side, informing and encouraging the Ballarat community to grow their own food.