One Tree Hill nature walk is the jewel in the crown of the Warrandyte Kinglake Nature Conservation Link. Explore habitat for many species no longer found further south.
Distance: 8kms
Time: 4.5 hours
Rating: Difficult
BYO lunch and water
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By going all-electric, you can create a safer home and brighter Manningham.
That’s why Manningham Council has partnered with Solar Savers, a local government initiative that takes the hassle out of home energy upgrades. The Council-backed program has now expanded to offer more suppliers and product choices, as well as home energy assessments for personalised advice.
Do you have questions about making your home more comfortable and efficient? Keen to install solar, batteries or efficient electric appliances? Drop in to learn more.
You can also find out about available discounts and discover how Solar Savers can help.
Join us at your local library for a session between August and October 2025.
Registration is not required. Drop in any time during the 1-hour session.
Electrify Your Life
This event is part of our Electrify Your Life program, which supports residents to go all-electric at home, creating a brighter Manningham. Learn how to make the switch at Electrify Your Life.
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By switching to electric appliances, you can create a safer and healthier home for your family.
Join us for an in-depth 2-hour electrification masterclass featuring expert presenter Lucinda, plus a 30-minute Q&A with a qualified electrician and solar installer.
Learn about:
Following the masterclass, attendees can join an optional one-hour hands-on session to dive deeper into modelling electrification options for your home, including cost-benefit calculations.
This session is ideal for anyone interested in going all-electric and creating a more comfortable, affordable and energy-efficient home.
Session dates:
There will be two sessions held at Doncaster Library.
Registrations are essential.
Electrify Your Life
This event is part of our Electrify Your Life program, which supports residents to go all-electric at home, creating a brighter Manningham. Learn how to make the switch at Electrify Your Life.
Keep up to date with our latest environment and sustainability events.
By improving your home's efficiency, you can reduce energy costs and create a more comfortable home for your family.
Looking for ways to improve comfort and energy efficiency at home? This 2-hour session, funded by Manningham Council and hosted by Doncaster Library, is perfectly timed as we enter the warmer months.
Join expert presenter Lucinda and learn practical strategies to optimise your home and appliances for summer comfort.
Topics include:
You'll leave with fresh ideas and an upgrades roadmap to help you achieve greater comfort and lower energy use – long into the future.
The session is suited to anyone looking for simple, practical ways to save money, reduce their environmental impact and improve their home's liveability.
Registrations are essential.
Note: Pines Learning will be hosting an earlier session of Liveable Homes - Summer Comfort on 9 October 2025.
Power up a cleaner future
This event is part of our Electrify Your Life program, which supports residents to go all-electric at home, creating a brighter Manningham. Learn how to make the switch at Electrify Your Life.
Keep up to date with our latest environment and sustainability events.
All gardens begin with fabulous soil.
In this workshop we will take a deep dive into the world of soil and how to care for it. There are many simple ways to improve the soil in your garden and enable a productive and beautiful garden for all to enjoy.
This workshop will introduce you to the science of soil and provide tips and tricks on how to improve soil for a wildlife garden and benefit the environmental.
Bring a sample of your own soil to test pH.
Presenter: Charlotte Harrison from Sustainable Gardening Australia.
Supper is at 6.45pm, the seminar begins at 7.00pm sharp.
Registration is essential.
This is the second seminar of a four-part series on Gardening for Biodiversity. The series of workshops is run by Sustainable Gardening Australia and provides tips and tricks to garden for wildlife and support biodiversity in your local area.
Participants will learn how to make and maintain beeswax wraps for keeping food fresh and hygienic without the use of single-use plastics such as cling-wrap.
Join the Friends of Warrandyte State Park (FOWSP) for a planting day at Pound Bend.
Meet at the Friends of Warrandyte State Nursery at 9.00am for 9.15am start.
Gloves and tools will be provided. Please bring your own morning tea.
Learn how to make seed bombs for your home or community garden.
In this hands-on workshop, you’ll discover how to make seed bombs using native flower seeds and all the nutrients and protection the seeds need to get a great start on life.
Suitable for children aged 5 to 12 years.
From exploring a Passive House to hearing from energy-efficient experts at our Inspired Living event, May is jam-packed with sustainability events!
We’re kicking our sustainability month off on Thursday 1 May with an Inspired Living Series panel on the exciting future of electrification.
The panel will feature leading energy efficiency voice, Tim Forcey, CEO of Beyond Zero Emissions, Heidi Lee, and Get Off Gas founder, Brendan Lang.
During May, we’re also running free webinars, events and information sessions to help you move towards an all-electric, energy-efficient home.
Explore the options below – and register today.
Sustainable House Day is happening on Sunday 4 May – it’s an annual event and opportunity to explore some of Australia’s most impressive eco-friendly homes.
There is one open home in Warrandyte: The Panel House. This all-electric certified Passive House – which runs off stored water – features a green roof, a 20kW solar PV system, efficient lighting and appliances, smart home features and much more.
In surrounding areas, you can visit the Electric Alistair Knox home in North Warrandyte and the Eltham Town Treehouse.
Tickets are $9.50 for adults, $6.50 for Concession Card holders and free for under 12yrs old or those with a Carer’s Card.
Can’t make it? Explore the video tours of more than 230 sustainable homes across Australia.
Our library drop-in sessions will continue in May. If you have questions about going all-electric or being more efficient at home, drop in and talk to a Council staff member in Warrandyte.
Or come along to our expert workshop series at Doncaster Library and take a deep dive into Hot Water Heat Pumps and Reverse Cycle Air Conditioners.
During May, Sustainable House Day will continue the conversation by running a webinar series on sustainable homes.
Featuring expert speakers, the series will empower homeowners to build, renovate or simply replace old appliances and move towards a more energy efficient and sustainable home.
Manningham residents can access a 50 per cent discount on a webinar Series Pass.
Home Harvest Manningham is a monthly home gardening seminar series that will teach you how to grow your own delicious fresh food at home.
In this comprehensive program, Sustainable Gardening Australia will cover everything you need to know about preparing your garden (in Spring) for a bumper summer harvest.
Part one will cover planning, preparing, and growing your garden organically.
Topics include:
Food swap from 6.45pm, session starts at 7.00pm.
This event is part of our Inspired Living Series. This series showcases an exciting range of fun and sustainable activities and events for all ages, supporting sustainability at home, in the community and at work.
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Water is one of our most precious resources. Together, with our partners and community, we are developing long-term sustainable solutions to managing our water supply and protecting our waterways.
Sustainably managing water supply and improving waterway health is essential for:
In Manningham, the Yarra River (Birrarung) is instrumental to our landscape and community. For Wurundjeri people, the river, known as Birrarung, was the life source and an important meeting place.
Burndap Birrrarung Burndap Umarkoo means “what is good for the Yarra is good for all” in the Woi-wurrung language.
To better manage and protect the Yarra River, the State Government developed the Burndap Birrrarung burndap umarkoo (Yarra Strategic Plan), in collaboration with the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation and 15 state and local agencies.
This 10-year plan seeks to manage and protect the Yarra River and its parklands as one living and integrated natural entity.
Keep up to date with our latest environment and sustainability events.
By improving your home's efficiency, you can reduce energy costs and create a more comfortable home for your family.
Looking for ways to improve comfort and energy efficiency at home? This 2-hour session, funded by Manningham Council and hosted by Pines Learning, is perfectly timed as we enter the warmer months.
Join expert presenter Lucinda and learn practical strategies to optimise your home and appliances for summer comfort.
Topics include:
You'll leave with fresh ideas and an upgrades roadmap to help you achieve greater comfort and lower energy use – long into the future.
The session is suited to anyone looking for simple, practical ways to save money, reduce their environmental impact and improve their home's liveability.
Registrations are essential.
Note: Doncaster Library will be hosting a later session of Liveable Homes - Summer Comfort on 30 October 2025.
Power up a cleaner future
This event is part of our Electrify Your Life program, which supports residents to go all-electric at home, creating a brighter Manningham. Learn how to make the switch at Electrify Your Life.
Keep up to date with our latest environment and sustainability events.
The local community is invited to a guided walk to learn about the billabong's extraordinary significance and to help in a working bee to collect old tree guards.
Refreshments will follow.
This event is part of the 2024 Birrarung Riverfest.
This event has been funded by the Victorian Government through the North East Community Fund.
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After months of weed removal, Andersons Creek Landcare Group is excited to be planting!
We have 1,000’s of grasses waiting to go in the ground. All we need is the person power.
Join us for a relaxing afternoon of planting. You will be part of this great habitat restoration project.
Learn how to make seed bombs for your home or community garden.
In this hands-on workshop, you’ll discover how to make seed bombs using native flower seeds and all the nutrients and protection the seeds need to get a great start on life.
Suitable for children aged 5 to 12 years.
Join Manningham Council’s Waterwatch Coordinator Nigel Philpot for a walk along Mullum Mullum Creek.
Along the way, we will make multiple stops to test the water quality of the creek. From this, we can assess the impacts of stormwater pollution.
The return walk is a considerable 5km so come prepared with snacks/lunch, a water bottle and good walking shoes.
Bring your own hat, sunscreen and hand sanitiser.
Location: The location will be emailed to you upon registration.
Please note, this event will be postponed if it's predicted to rain.
Come and join the fun at the newly renovated Doncaster Hill Community Garden!
Every 2 weeks community members gather to lend a hand with planting, sowing seeds, weeding, watering and harvesting fresh produce.
Comprising of wicking beds, fruit trees and herb patches, the produce is grown and harvested communally. While the produce gets donated to a local food bank, volunteers are able to get involved in fun and interesting activities, learn about gardening and connect with others.
The garden is open to all and welcomes anyone with an interest in growing food, meeting others and learning new things.
All gardening tools are provided. Please bring a water bottle, hat and closed toe shoes.
No registration required.
Hosted by Manningham Council and delivered by Leisure Networks.
This free webinar will focus on the essentials of sponsorship and fundraising - two vital tools for building a sustainable and successful club.
This session will give you the confidence and know-how to boost your club’s income and strengthen community connections.
What you'll learn:
Join wildlife ecologist John Harris as we undertake a biodiversity survey of 100 Acres Reserve. This community biodiversity survey is part of the global City Nature Challenge (CNC).
How to participate
It is free, easy, and fun to get involved.
Bring your mobile phone or digital camera to take pictures of the wild plants, animals and fungi you see, or make sound recordings of frog or bird calls.
Any observations taken over the four days, need to be uploaded to iNaturalist and included in the City Nature Challenge 2023.
To prepare for the guided walks and talks:
About the City Nature Challenge
The City Nature Challenge runs from Friday 28 April to Monday 1 May 2023.
In this worldwide BioBlitz, cities compete to make the most observations of the most species by the most people.
Manningham is collaborating with over 25 local governments to form the Greater Melbourne project.
Last year Greater Melbourne came 33rd from 445 cities for the number of observations made. Hume City came fourth amongst the other local government areas.
