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YARCK TO YEA – WALK, RIDE, RUN SATURDAY 19 AUGUST 2023
Join us on Saturday 19th August 2023 to walk, ride or run the Great Victorian Rail Trail between Yarck and Yea. Complete the entire 27km trail, or choose your starting point according to the distance you wish to walk, ride or run. Celebrate your achievement at a BBQ...
2023 SMALL GRANTS ANNOUNCEMENT
Each year Highways and Byways - Healing the Land, Healing Ourselves, Together provides small grants to community organisations for projects that address disadvantage and exclusion within towns and communities, especially in rural and regional Australia. This year, our...
APRIL 2023 NEWSLETTER
Welcome to the April 2023 edition of the Highways and Byways Newsletter. We are excited to be sharing with you news from some of our small grant projects and an update on the progress of our major partnership programs, including Restoring Nature and...
BIOBLITZ SHOWCASES LAKE PEDDER POSSIBILITIES
Lake Pedder, Tasmania Tabatha Badger’s work takes her to the magnificent Pedder Impoundment in Tasmania and the halls of Parliament House in Canberra. It’s for the same purpose; the restoration of the original, World Heritage Listed, Lake Pedder. It’s the same reason...
TOUCH, FEEL AND SMELL THE SURROUNDS
Drake, NSW Gardeners at the Drake Village Women’s Shed wanted to cater for most folk in the small NSW town when they developed their community garden with support from Highways and Byways. Using three newly built raised garden beds they planted up pollinator, sensory...
PROTECTING NATURE’S NATURAL BEAUTY
Broulee, NSW Lynn Bain wears a few hats around the beautiful NSW coastal town of Broulee, including "Rubbish Queen" and "Weed Lady". She and a group of volunteers can often be found pulling weeds, replanting and picking up rubbish from Mossy Point to Moruya Airport,...
EXECUTIVE OFFICER MESSAGE, APRIL 2023
Happy Easter! We have had a wonderful start to the year at Highways and Byways having received some really exciting applications for our Small Grants Program for 2023 Healing and Growing Together. The Projects Committee and Board all agreed that our regional and...
CHANGING TIMES FOR FARMERS
Goondiwindi, Queensland Louise Carroll cites a worm farm as the highlight of the recent regenerative cropping field day she helped organise. Not your average domestic worm farm, but a massive purpose-built worm farm producing enough material to contribute to crop...
2022 ANNUAL REPORT
We are pleased to release the 2022 Highways and Byways Annual Report. 2022 was a full and productive year for Highways and Byways despite the ongoing challenges of the Covid19 pandemic, with continued growth in our partnership and small grants programs, and the return...
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