local community news/events
Burnside Environment & Sustainability Expo - this Sat 15th June 10am-2pm
Fantastic array of information, entertainment, activities and more. Family friendly and well worth a visit for all, to help you on your journey towards more environmentally sustainable living.
BioR Planting Festival - 8,9, 15,16, 22 or 23 June
Fantastic opportunity to make a tangible difference and just get out in nature. BioR are not just a not for profit tree planting organisation but they plant to create biodiverse habitat that can thrive. They get better and better every year but they need your help.
Fruit Share Adelaide
Fruit Share is a volunteer led initiative aiming to reduce food waste from fruit trees in the community, to give to those in need.
If you have a fruit tree you would like harvesting for donation, have a few hours to volunteer to help or have a organisation that could utilise the fruit, check out their website for more information and contact details.
Blackwood Repair Cafe
Encouraging the hierarchy of the 5Rs, Repair is far more sustainable than Recycle.
Not got the skills, yet?!
Check out the talents available, book into the repair cafe and bring along your item.
Where: Tiwu Kumangka Library, 2 Young St, Blackwood
When: Second Saturday of the month 12:30pm to 3:30pm
Blackwood Library of Things (LoT)
UPDATE: currently there is a pause on taking donations while they find a bigger more suitable space. Contact Ian via the FB page if you have any information regarding a possible space.
Ever needed that cake tin or gardening tool for that once in a blue moon occasion so it doesn't make sense to spend a lot but buy cheap quality rubbish seems so wasteful. This is where the Library of Things is a great way to live more sustainably and as a community.
Still in the development stages, local volunteer Ian Naisworth hopes to have the LoTs up and running mid June 2024.
If you have any items to donate please call in Saturday's between 9am-12pm only.
Where: Starting temporarily in the shared space of Shop 2, 10 Waite Street, Blackwood.