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Off-Grid Living Festival 2025
2025-04-12 - 2025-04-13 | Chiltern Race Course, Racecourse Road, Chiltern, 3683
A Weekend to Celebrate & Investigate Sustainable Living
10 Festival Areas – 8 Talks Stages – Over 150 Workshops – Live Entertainment – Great Food & Drinks – Waste Free and Loads of Family Fun!
At the Off-Grid Living Festival we seek to inspire people to take new step towards becoming more sustainable each year. We don’t just talk about the problems at this event, we offer great solutions, and we make it fun and attainable to all with a great mix of education and entertainment throughout the festival.
The decision to go off-grid or live more sustainably might be for personal freedom, fun and adventure, a desire to live closer to nature, reduce bills, or it might come from a deeper feeling of guilt about your impacts on the earth. For us, it’s all of these things and more, and when we focus on the specific areas we can improve – taking one step at a time, it’s easy to feel the progress and be proud.
We invite you to come to next years festival with an intention. Think about which areas you’re going to focus on improving. How many steps can you take, and where are you willing to invest your time, money and efforts?
Find out more and book your tickets: www.offgridevent.com.au

Street Harvest
2025-04-14 09:30 - 12:30, 2025-04-21 09:30 - 12:30, 2025-04-28 09:30 - 12:30, 2025-05-05 09:30 - 12:30, 2025-05-12 09:30 - 12:30, 2025-05-19 09:30 - 12:30, 2025-05-26 09:30 - 12:30, 2025-06-02 09:30 - 12:30 (Australia/Melbourne) and 11 more dates | Uniting, Wodonga, 1 Nilmar Avenue, Wodonga, Vic, 3690, Australia
The Street Harvest project is being reinvigorated – Please consider growing an extra row of produce in your garden to support this project and Uniting in Wodonga.
All produce can be dropped off at Uniting (1 Nilmar Avenue, Wodonga between. 9:30 am to 12:30 pm Monday to Friday).
The project builds and encourages community capacity and improves food security for Wodonga residents by distributing excess fruit and vegetables, harvested from residential gardens, to local residents and emergency food relief agencies.
‘Street Harvest’ was a pilot project developed in Wodonga in 2010. The Street Harvest Project grew out of a passion for transforming the local food system into one that is sustainable and strong.

Repair Cafe Albury-Wodonga Inc
2025-05-03 10:00 - 13:00, 2025-06-07 10:00 - 13:00, 2025-07-05 10:00 - 13:00, 2025-08-02 10:00 - 13:00 | Wodonga Senior Citizens Centre, 15 Havelock Street, Wodonga, Victoria, 3690, Australia
Do you have a broken household item you’d like fixed but need a hand to do so? Then this is your opportunity.
Our Repair Café is a free meeting place to bring along broken household items such as furniture, clothing, textiles and battery-operated appliances and learn how to fix them with the help of experienced, volunteer repairers. You can also bring along small, blunt garden tools like secateurs and we’ll show you how to sharpen them. Maximum three items per person per session. A donation is greatly appreciated for the repair of your items. This covers the cost of our insurance and supplies used for these repairs.
For more information see: https://www.facebook.com/repaircafeaw/
Repair Café Albury-Wodonga is proudly supported by Halve Waste, with morning yummies donated by Kooka Brotha’s patisserie.

Climate resilience at Fat Goose Farm
2025-05-17 10:00 - 14:00 | Fat Goose Farm, Fighting Gully Road Beechworth, BEECHWORTH, 3747, Australia
Join Beechworth Landcare and Charlie and Faye Robinson at their inspiring property, Fat Goose Farm, to chat about our likely climatic future, the greatest threats coming our way, and what we can do to create the best lives we can. While Fat Goose Farm is a full homesteading dream, this is of interest to everyone, even if you just have a balcony for a pot of mint!
Venue: Fat Goose Farm, Fighting Gully Road, Beechworth
What to bring: Chair and notebook. And a raincoat or brolly if it’s going to be wet. We’ll still run the event in the wet (great opportunity to see water flows!)
Cost: $5 for Beechworth Landcare members and $10 for non-members. It’s slightly more expensive to join via humanitix to cover handling fees.
RSVP: Nicki Munro at nickimunro2010@gmail.com or text 0407 797 092
https://events.humanitix.com/climate-resilience-field-day

10/10 Leadership - Youth Climate & Resilience
2025-05-28 09:15 - 16:30 | Wangaratta Performing Arts & Convention Centre, 33-37 Ford Street, Wangaratta, 3677
A FREE one-day leadership program for 15-25 year-old changemakers in Wangaratta and surrounding rural townships!
👉Care about the environment? Want change? Think things can be better!?
👉Ready to step up, make a difference & turn ideas into action?
Join the 10/10 Leadership – Youth Climate & Resilience program!
This 1-day intensive is designed to help you build skills, connect with others & take real action on the issues you care about. If you’re 15-25 and ready to make an impact, this is for you!
✅ Hands-on Leadership Workshop – Learn how to take action on issues you care about
✅ Your Ideas → Your Impact – Develop your passion into real projects
✅ Like-Minded Crew – Connect & collaborate with other young leaders
✅ Practical Support – Tools, resources & expert guidance to help you succeed
✅ Completely FREE

WHEN & WHERE:
Wednesday 28th May, 9.15am – 4.30pm
Wangaratta Performing Arts & Convention Centre
👉You don’t need to have a big idea or a plan to participate! This program will help you discover what matters to you & explore ways to take action
👉Spots are limited!

Register your interest now

Need more info? Contact Zaylee Saint-James Turner | environment@wangaratta.vic.gov.au

Community Screening of the award winning film, Just A Farmer.
2025-06-13 18:00 - 22:00 | Check the event listing for venue details
Join Yackandandah Landcare and Leila McDougall, creator of this amazing film, for a special community screening of Just A Farmer on Friday 13th June. Be a part of supporting the mental health conversation in your community. All proceeds from tickets go to AgBiz Care to help those in need.
WHEN: Friday 13th June.
Doors open at 6pm. Film commences at 6:30pm.
TICKETS: $10. Includes light refreshments following the film and an entry to the lucky door prize. $500 vouchers to Yenda Producers up for grabs.
WHERE: Yackandandah Public Hall
To book and for more information head to:
https://events.humanitix.com/jaf

A big shout out to our sponsors who have helped us bring the film to our town
Yenda Producers, YCDCo, AgBiz Assist

Cultural Conversation: Fire In The Landscape
2025-06-20 13:00 - 15:00 | Check the event listing for venue details
Join Duduroa Elders Uncle Allan Murray & Uncle Phil Murray together with Luritja/Aranda Elder Uncle Vince Forrester, Bill Gammage, author of The Biggest Estate on Earth and landholder Bridget Doyle for a fire forum Q & A.
Come along and learn firsthand about traditional fire practices & their importance in the landscape for the healing of Culture and Country as well as contemporary land management in a changing climate. Be a part of the knowledge sharing.

NAIDOC Week Bangerang Community Day
2025-07-08 11:00 - 14:00 | Check the event listing for venue details
To celebrate NAIDOC week everyone is invited to a free family fun day at Northern Beaches, Wangaratta. Meet near the Scout Hall on College Street.

Welcome to Country and smoking ceremony
Bangerang culture including dance, weaving and woodworking
Circus arts workshops with the Flying Fruit Fly Circus
Animals of Oz wildlife display
Kids art and face painting
Free lunch

Free event, no booking required
For more information contact the Environment & Sustainability team 57220888 or environment@wangaratta.vic.gov.au

Albury Agrihood Village Information Session
2025-08-09 14:00 - 15:30 | Glenecho Community Centre, 949 Burrows Road, Glenroy, 2640
Are you curious about how farming, community, and modern living can come together in a regenerative kind of farm lifestyle on the edge of a regional town?
Join us for an information session about an agrihood model set to move forward in the Albury region.
Regenerating Land. Building Community. Growing Opportunities.

🌾 This session is perfect for:
• Landowners & food growing enthusiasts interested in collaboration
• Tree-changers and Eco-housing fans
• Local food, sustainability, and housing investors
• Anyone curious about regenerative, community-led land projects

👨‍🌾 What You’ll Learn:
• What an agrihood is (with real examples)
• How this model fits rural Australia and Albury
• Opportunities for jobs, housing, and tourism
• How YOU can be part of shaping the first agrihood project in the region

More information and tickets: events.humanitix.com/albury-agrihood
