HELPING THE MAGIC HAPPEN

HELPING THE MAGIC HAPPEN

Ballarat, Victoria ‘Just put your hands in the dirt and let the magic happen’, is the advice Lou Ridsdale gives the young people at her workshop before they embark on making a mini-garden terrarium. She urges them to have fun, be creative and make something they love,...
A FOREST OF FOOD

A FOREST OF FOOD

Byron Bay, NSW Young people and community folk around Byron Bay are planting hundreds of trees and creating a fruit food forest. Importantly, they are also learning to improve their environment by nurturing the health of their garden through the use of worm farm...
CREATING GOOD WASTE

CREATING GOOD WASTE

Kardinya, Western Australia Every home composter and backyard worm farmer has, at some stage, battled smells, bugs and heat. It can break the spirit of the keenest waste warriors and derail their efforts. And it’s the very reason the Kulungah Myah Community Centre in...
A PLACE TO CALL HOME

A PLACE TO CALL HOME

Drake, NSW (Bundjalung Country) Clare Urquhart knows only too well that small animals and birds, as well as human beings, need a place to call home. With support from Highways and Byways and the local community, dozens of wildlife nesting boxes have been built and...
WORKING TO RESTORE RAINFOREST BEAUTY

WORKING TO RESTORE RAINFOREST BEAUTY

Grafton, NSW (Gumbainggir Country) Claire Purvis describes her time on Elizabeth Island, a river island at Grafton in New South Wales, as a big adventure in a different world. It was a world that was almost lost and overgrown until Claire and her team of volunteers...
FARMERS SUPPORTED TO LOOK AHEAD

FARMERS SUPPORTED TO LOOK AHEAD

Goondiwindi, Queensland (Bigambul Country) Farmers have a lot on their plate. They battle the challenges of weather – too much rain, dry seasons, poor crops, fires and floods – and somehow they have to juggle immediate outcomes with long-term...