Learn how to identify our local eucalypt trees and find out how understanding where they grow can help you to read the landscape.
If all the trees and bush look a bit the same to you, this short walk and talk could change the way you see the world!
Join experienced local naturalist and ecologist Alan Noy on an easy walk through Pound Bend, as we discuss the distinctive identification features of the local trees.
Home Harvest Manningham is a monthly home gardening seminar series that will teach you how to grow your own delicious fresh food at home.
Join urban food garden specialist Kat Lavers from The Plummery as she discusses garden tools and infrastructure.
The session will cover:
Kat will also cover which tools are worth investing a few dollars in, and how to look after them.
Food swap from 6.45pm, session starts at 7.00pm.
Registration is recommended but not required.
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.
Keep up to date with our latest environment and sustainability events.
Solar Savers is a trusted local government initiative that has helped households and businesses go all-electric since 2019. This initiative is supported by us and is available to all Manningham residents.
Solar Savers takes the hassle out of home energy upgrades. Backed by Manningham Council, the program has recently expanded to offer more suppliers and a wider range of products. It now also includes home energy assessments for personalised advice.
Solar Savers can provide you with:
Solar Savers can assist with quality and affordable:
Contact Solar Savers to book a home energy assessment or obtain a quote from trusted installers.
Manningham residents are going all-electric and reaping the rewards. Read about how they made the switch, as well as their top tips.
For country-raised Ken and his wife Joan, purchasing solar and a battery system simply made good sense.
Now, the Donvale residents are saving more with stable renewable energy.
Rising costs led Paul to decommission his central gas heating.
After just one summer, he is reaping the rewards of his new 9.02kW solar system and battery storage.
Living and Learning @ Ajani has joined the Australia wide chatty café scheme.
We are hosting a table in our café every Tuesday morning 10am to 12pm starting May 24.
We welcome people to come along for a chat while enjoying a hot or cold beverage and a muffin for only $3.50.
Our chatty café volunteer will ensure the conversations are interesting and stimulating.
It is a great way to meet new people in a warm friendly environment.
This is a free guided nature walk, exploring a variety of bushland settings in Manningham. It is paced to allow participants to enjoy and appreciate the natural beauty of the area.
This nature walk is rated moderate and incorporates moderately steep and slippery sections.
The walk will cover approximately 3km and go for around 2.5 hours.
The meeting point for the nature walk will be provided at the time of registration.
Please note: nature walks will be cancelled on days of total fire ban or extreme weather warning.
Home Harvest Manningham is a monthly home gardening series to inspire you to grow your own delicious fresh food at home.
Gardens are the natural habitat for all types of insects – the good, the bad and the ugly.
Integrated Pest Management aims to manage pests using a mixture of physical, cultural, and biological control methods, with low impact chemical being used as a last resort.
This session will cover:
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.
Keep up to date with our latest environment and sustainability events.
Manningham Art Gallery presents two exhibitions of tactile, abstract works that recontextualise commonly encountered materials, celebrating the everyday and unpredictable process driven experimentation.
Anni Hagberg’s Trace Encounters employs foraging practices, ceramic processes, and experimental installation to explore uncertainty as a contemporary human condition.
Rejecting linear understandings of progress, foraging practices embody a sense of agnostic curiosity. Opportunistically engaging materials, which present themselves within the environment through the process of being discarded by one and found by another, foraging encourages lively interaction with the environment.
Rhys Cousins work homes in on otherwise ordinary and ignored surfaces that one might expect to encounter on any given day. It acknowledges life as complex sensory jigsaw, but deliberately strips away the smells, sounds, language, and colour of that puzzle to explore only touch and the external physical qualities of the myriad materials that make up the urban places we live.
Examining the importance of touch as a physical and emotional experience - helping us to make sense of the world, the work also highlights how texture is made as much through presence as absence, with the solid bumps and ridges in a surface playing as great a role in creating its overall texture as its voids, crevices, nooks, and cracks.
Cousins and Hagberg’s works are activated across Gallery 1 and 2.
Installation View, Manningham Art Gallery, March 2022. Photo by Charlie Kinross.
Stuart Myers of Equiculture is delivering this full-day workshop on keeping horses and land healthy and happy.
The Equiculture program is loved by horse owners throughout Australia (and beyond!) as an evidence-based approach to keeping horses and land healthy.
Topics covered:
There is also a two-part evening workshop in Yarra Glen if you are unable to attend the full-day workshop.
Celebrate National Tree Day by joining our annual community planting session along the Mullum Mullum Creek trail on Sunday 27 July from 10.00am to 12.00pm.
Bring your family and friends along to help enhance a habitat corridor along the creekline and surrounds.
With your help, we aim to plant more than 3,000 indigenous young plants.
Our team will provide advice on how and where to plant the plants to support local habitat.
What to bring
We'll provide all the tools, equipment and plants. All you need to bring is a personal water bottle, sturdy shoes and any snacks.
Where to meet
Please enter via Reynolds Road, Donvale. Parking is available at the Mullum Mullum sports precinct. Planting will be along the creek trail, marked with signage and marquees.
Ahead of National Recycling Week, join Precious Plastic Melbourne to gain an overview of the different types of plastic in circulation, their recyclability and usage.
Learn about some of the challenges of recycling certain plastic materials, and understand the complexity that exists at a local area level.
This session will help you identify different plastic types with ease and confidence and understand what can be done with them.
Are you new to composting? Come along and learn from the experts at Compost Community. They will show you how to get started on your composting journey.
Topics will include:
The session will cover the three main types of composting – traditional compost, worm farming and bokashi.
Come join Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung educator Thane Garvey-Gannaway at Bolin Bolin Billabong and learn about the significance of this amazing part of the Birrarung.
Please arrive 10 minutes prior to start time. Come prepared and dress for the weather on the day, including closed-toed footwear.
Bring a snack and water bottle for morning tea.
Children must be supervised by a parent or guardian at all times.
In the event of extreme weather, this event will be cancelled.
This event is part of Manningham's 2024 Spring Outdoors Series.
Starting at the sacred Wurundjeri Bukkertilibul dreaming site on Brushy Creek, we follow the river upstream, then head up to one of the highest points in Manningham. Enjoy the 360 degree view with the Great Dividing Range to the north and the rapids that mark the start of the Warrandyte Gorge below.
Please bring a water bottle and a snack. Wear sturdy shoes, a hat and clothing appropriate for the weather.
Registration is essential. The meeting point will be advised on booking.
Join Council's Biodiversity Planner Cathy Willis for a walk identifying most Manningham’s eucalypt species in the field.
Details:
If you can no longer attend, please cancel via Eventbrite.
Come along to our coffee and friendship sessions, which are perfect for both long-time and new residents. No matter how long you have been living in the area, our friendly volunteer will greet you and make you feel welcome.
Bookings are essential and everyone is welcome,
Car parking is available onsite and Bus 905 stops at Thompsons Road / Sunhill Road bus stop,
Did you know that the average Australian household increases its waste output by around 30 per cent during the festive season?
So how can you reduce your waste without missing out on the traditions you love, or creating a stack more work for yourself?
Join permaculture and sustainability educator, Anna The Urban Nanna, and learn how to make eco-conscious, sustainable decorations using upcycled and natural materials.
This free hands-on workshop touches on ways to decorate your home during the festive season without adding to the global waste crisis. Some homemade festive snacks will be supplied during the presentation, and you will take home what you make as well as instructions to continue crafting at home.
Registrations is essential and spots are limited.
Join Scott Hitchins as he returns to the Strathdon kitchen to create some of our, soon to be hot favourite, comfort dishes.
With a focus on low waste cooking, Scott will teach participants the techniques to create delicious winter warmers using every bit of what you grow or buy.
The focus in this session will be on using vegetables from the garden and an overview for slow style cooking that you can try at home.
You will be provided with a sample of what is cooked on the day and digital notes to try some of Scott’s recipes at home.
What to wear: Suitable clothing for getting your hands dirty in the kitchen and closed toe shoes.
What to bring: an apron (optional)
Who: Adults or teens
About Scott
Scott Hitchins has been working with sustainable, food-producing gardens for most of his life.
He has qualifications in biological science, permaculture design, education, and is a founding member of Werribee Park Heritage Orchard.
Scott has been providing popular workshops and garden-design advice to local councils, schools, and other community groups for many years.
He presents useful facts and skills in a fun and engaging manner. To quote Scott in a recent interview “Get me talking about sustainable gardening and you’ll never shut me up.”
和我们一起来探索家庭厨余堆肥的乐趣吧！在这次分享会中，你可以了解到三种常见的家庭堆肥系统——有氧热堆肥、蚯蚓堆肥和波卡西堆肥。
现场示范、手把手教学将打破你对堆肥会有异味、不卫生、麻烦等等刻板印象。不论你住在哪里，有多少时间和空间，总有一种堆肥方式适合你。堆肥不仅可以让你把厨余和庭院垃圾变成上好的有机肥，更能减少垃圾，让我们自己以及生活的环境更加健康！
Come and join us to learn about the magic and fun of composting!
In this interactive session, Mandarin speakers will be introduced to multiple ways of home organic recycling including:
Live demonstrations and hands-on training will break your stereotypes of composting being smelly, unhygienic and troublesome.
No matter where you live, how much space and time you have, there’s always something you can do right from your kitchen and backyard to recycle your organic waste and turn it into garden gold. In doing so, you will be helping our environment to become better.
Please note: this workshop will be presented in Mandarin.
Deer are destroying our most valuable assets. What can we do about it?
Did you know:
Speakers from Middle Yarra Landcare Network, Manningham Council and guest speaker John Harris from Wildlife and Ecology, Melbourne will talk about what can be done to minimise the impact deer have on our precious environment.
We can all participate in the movement to minimise waste.
To celebrate Plastic Free July, we'll be popping up at our local markets to chat with visitors about how we can all continue reducing our waste and in particular, single-use plastics.
Come along and say hello!