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Border Bushwalking Club - Falls Creek – Pretty Valley circuit
2024-11-16 | Check the event listing for venue details
This walk starts and finishes at Pretty Valley pondage and goes past Pole 333 and Cope saddle, with aside trip to Tawonga Huts. It’s all on tracks ranging from fire trails to footpads. There are some ups and downs over the day and great views. Around 16 km.

Grade 3 Medium
Leader: Bernadette
Phone: 0419241687
Participant numbers: 14
Final booking date: Wed Nov 13th by 8pm
For more information and updates about BBC activities, check www.borderbushwalkingclub.com.au

6/5 Mile Creek Community Stewardship Morning
2024-11-14 09:00 - 11:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | 6/5 Mile Creek, Birramal Rd./St. Johns Rd., Thurgoona, Australia
Join Parklands Rangers to help find and remove woody weeds such as privet, olive, cherry plum, briar rose, and hawthorn in this beautiful reserve.
This is an opportunity to work alongside our Rangers experiencing the ‘how to’ of caring for our local bush. No experience is necessary – our Rangers will help with weed identification and removal techniques.
Take in the fresh air, get close to nature, and learn about the local environment and how Albury City and community groups are working to protect threatened species, improve habitat, and link habitat corridors across the region.
When: 9:00 am to 11:00 am (2 hrs)
Where: Meet at the Six Mile Creek car park.
What is supplied: All tools and any specific safety equipment needed.
What to bring: BYO drinking water. For your safety, please wear covered shoes (preferably boots), long pants, long sleeves, and a hat.
Please register here! Sometimes things change at the last minute and we need to be able to contact volunteers.
Thank you to Albury City Council for financial support for this program.

Invertebrates of Nail Can Hill and Beyond – presentation
2024-11-13 17:30 - 18:30 | Albury Council Building, 553 Kiewa St, Albury, NSW
Join us for an enlightening talk with naturalist Peter Ewin as he discusses the fascinating invertebrates he’s encountered on Nail Can Hill and beyond, including critters from his own backyard.
With over thirty years of experience in biodiversity with the NSW Government, Peter has transformed his passion for nature into a rewarding career. A resident of Albury for nearly a decade, his enthusiasm for birds has blossomed into a deep appreciation for the world of invertebrates — think butterflies, dragonflies, and everything else that piques his curiosity!
Whether you’re a seasoned nature enthusiast or just curious about the little wonders of our ecosystem, this talk promises to inspire and inform.
Venue: Robert Brown Room, Albury Council, 553 Kiewa St, Albury.
Tickets: $5 – bookings essential here: events.humanitix.com/invertebrates-presentation
This event is hosted by Gardens 4 Wildlife Albury-Wodonga (a Wodonga Urban Landcare Network Program) and Friends of Nail Can Hill, with generous support from AlburyCity and West Hume Landcare.

Albury Awards - Environmental Citizen of the Year
2024-11-12, 2024-11-05, 2024-10-29 | Online
Do you know someone that deserves the Albury Environmental Citizen of the Year?
Every year, our community is enriched by the outstanding contributions of its residents. From community champions and dedicated volunteers to innovative thinkers and compassionate leaders, the Albury Awards highlight the diverse tapestry of talent and dedication within our midst.
The environmental citizen of the year category has been established to recognise contributions to our local environment, demonstrated leadership on a community issue resulting in the enhancement of community life or has inspiring qualities as a role model for the community.

Click the link below for more information and to fill out a nomination form
Albury Awards | AlburyCity (nsw.gov.au)
Nominate now

Border Bushwalking Club - 3 huts and a Chalet
2024-11-12 | Check the event listing for venue details
This walk of roughly 7km starts and finishes at Wallace’s Hut carpark. Wallace’s Hut is the oldest surviving cattlemen’s hut, built in 1889 by the three Wallace brothers – Arthur, William and Stewart. We continue past the hut to the aqueduct, turn right and then follow the grassy aqueduct track past the Rover Scout Chalet. The track here climbs gently to Cope Hut, which was built by the Ski Club of Victoria in 1929 after the state experienced a surge of skiing in the 1920s. From Cope Hut the walking track follows a heath-filled valley back to the Wallaces Hut track and carpark.
The second walk is to Faithfuls Hut, begins at the Buckety Plains campground. It’s a short 1.5km return walk that involves a 95m descent/ascent.

Grade 3 Medium
Leader: Deb
Phone: 0410047884 before 8pm
Participant numbers: Up to 10
Final booking date: Friday 8th November
For more information and updates about BBC activities, check www.borderbushwalkingclub.com.au

Paradise Island Community Stewardship Day
2024-11-11 09:00 - 13:00, 2024-11-04 09:00 - 13:00, 2024-10-28 09:00 - 13:00, 2024-10-21 09:00 - 13:00 | Check the event listing for venue details
Join Parklands Rangers undertaking a variety of practical conservation works on our patch of paradise. Our neighbours call this Paradise Island! 8km of the 9km circuit around this Island, to the east of Gateway Island, was fenced and revegetated a decade ago, providing quality habitat for many native fauna species.
Learn how to remove the invasive plant species threatening this high conservation Murray River island. This is an opportunity to work alongside our Rangers experiencing the ‘how to’ of caring for our local bush. No experience is necessary – our Rangers will help with plant identification and removal techniques.
Take in the fresh air, get close to nature, and learn about the local environment and how our community are working to protect threatened species, improve habitat, and link habitat corridors across the region.
We will be tackling privet, box elder, wild tobacco, and plenty more species. You will become an expert in pest plant identification! These works are in preparation for reafforestation in future years.
When: 9:00 am to 1:00 pm (4 hrs).
Where: Carpool from the corner of Huon Street and Church Street, Wodonga. Please arrive on time as we will leave at 9 am sharp.
What is supplied: All tools and any specific safety equipment needed.
What to bring: BYO drinking water. For your safety, please wear covered shoes (preferably boots), long pants, long sleeves, and a hat.
Who: Queries to Tilak 0421 278 246
Please register here! Sometimes things change at the last minute and we need to be able to contact volunteers. Please note that these sessions run EVERY MONDAY FROM SEPT 30 THROUGH TO NOV 25. Make sure you click on the correct date when registering.
Thank you to the Victorian Government for financial support through the Bushbank Program.

Street Harvest
2024-11-11 09:00 - 12:30, 2024-11-04 09:00 - 12:30, 2024-10-28 09:00 - 12:30, 2024-10-21 09:00 - 12:30 | Uniting, Wodonga, 1 Nilmar Avenue, Wodonga, Vic, 3690, Australia
‘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.
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.
The 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).

Seed Savers Seed Bank opening
2024-11-09 10:00 - 12:00 | Harry’s Hut, Browns Lagoon, Olive Street, South Albury
An opportunity to obtain seeds for your summer garden;
Seed Bank opening for deposit and withdrawal of seeds.
Share gardening tips and queries with friendly, like minded people. Share excess produce and plants.

Border Bushwalking Club - Ride YACKANDANDAH TO BEECHWORTH 64kms Return
2024-11-09 | Check the event listing for venue details
This ride begins in Yackandandah and follows the new bike track to Beechworth with some challenging ups and downs. There is an option to start near the roundabout on the Wodonga/Beechworth Road and thus avoid the uphill from Yack. (But then you won’t get the thrill of freewheeling back to Yack!).
We’ll lunch somewhere in Beechworth – maybe a picnic at Lake Sambell or lunch in one of the local cafes – then ride back to Yack and partake of some ‘electrolyte replacement therapy’ at the Star Hotel.
Suitable for all bike types, except maybe tricycles!
PLEASE NOTE: Because I am overseas until November all bookings will need to be done by EMAIL direct to me – iantre@hotmail.com
Mobile phone bookings will not be available so don’t bother trying.

Grade 3 Medium
Leader: Ian Trevaskis
Phone: 0425782983

Participant numbers:10
Final booking date: Thursday, October 31st
Risks: Other cyclists, highway crossings, motor vehicles, snakes, inclement weather.
For more information and updates about BBC activities, check www.borderbushwalkingclub.com.au

Browns Lagoon Community Stewardship Morning
2024-11-07 09:00 - 11:00 | Browns Lagoon, Olive St., Albury, Australia
Join Parklands Rangers to help find and remove woody weeds such as privet, olive, cherry plum, and box elder in this beautiful reserve.
This is an opportunity to work alongside our Rangers experiencing the ‘how to’ of caring for our local bush. No experience is necessary – our Rangers will help with weed identification and removal techniques.
Take in the fresh air, get close to nature, and learn about the local environment and how Albury City and community groups are working to protect threatened species, improve habitat, and link habitat corridors across the region.
When: 9:00 am to 11:00 am (2 hrs).
Where: Meet at the Browns Lagoon car park.
What is supplied: All tools and any specific safety equipment needed.
What to bring: BYO drinking water. For your safety, please wear covered shoes (preferably boots), long pants, long sleeves, and a hat.
Please register here! Sometimes things change at the last minute and we need to be able to contact volunteers.
Thank you to Albury City Council for financial support for this program.

Worm Wrangle and homemade fertilisers workshop
2024-11-04 17:45 - 18:45 | Check the event listing for venue details
Learn to wrangle worms to make amazing fertilisers for your garden!
Have a go at creating other nutrient rich natural soil additives from materials in your yard.
Includes making your own worm farm from recycled items to take home.
Registrations: events.humanitix.com/worm-wrangle-and-homemade-fertilisers-workshop

Repair Cafe Albury-Wodonga Inc
2024-11-02 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.

Friends of Chiltern-Mt Pilot NP Field day
2024-11-02 09:00 - 13:00 | Check the event listing for venue details
Every month we meet to do some work in the Park.. Often there’s a nature walk after we consume our Chiltern bakery bun. We always meet at Chiltern PO at 9am. Contact Tony Murnane 0447256938

Border Bushwalking Club - Munderoo logbook (Carboona Gap) > Lankeys Creek campsite/Hume and Hovell Track
2024-11-02 | Check the event listing for venue details
This walk offers a lovely mix of native bush, expansive views and open grazing country, and is a lovely descent (so the H & H website says) of 430m from the Munderoo plateau down to the property “Clear Springs”. The Track goes through native bush and spectacular grass tree stands on Munderoo plateau, with views to the Murray River and Victoria. It then enters open grazing country, where it peters out, but there are marker posts dotted through the paddocks (as long as cows haven’t knocked them down) to follow. We cross the new bridge over Coppabella Creek and then follow Lankeys Creek through grazed bush to Lankeys Creek campsite, one of the campsites used on the original expedition.
I have not done this walk before and it will be my first “real grade 3 walk” after a lengthy time off tracks due to injury. Please understand that it will not be a fast walk. A car shuffle is required. Approx 15km

Grade 3 Medium
Leader: Deb
Phone: 0410047884 before 8pm
Participant numbers: Up to 10
Final booking date: Wednesday 30th October
For more information and updates about BBC activities, check www.borderbushwalkingclub.com.au

Cultural Connections: Cultural Awareness Day
2024-11-01 10:00 - 15:00 | Burraja Indigenous Cultural and Environmental Discovery Centre, Gateway Village, Lincoln Causeway, Wodonga, Victoria, Australia
Come along and learn from Traditional Owners about traditional practice and cultural protocols at Burraja – an Indigenous cultural and environmental discovery centre located right here on the Border. Experience a smoking ceremony, learn about cultural awareness in a safe space, take a guided river walk and taste some bush foods. Learn about traditional tools and weapons, spend some time in the women’s weaving circle or learn to knap stone tools in the men’s space.

Places are limited, bookings essential.
WULN is pleased to be a partner with Kiewa Catchment Landcare Groups on this event.

Corrys Wood Parklands Community Stewardship Morning
2024-10-31 09:00 - 11:00 | Check the event listing for venue details
Join Parklands Rangers to help find and remove woody weeds such as Cootamundra wattle, privet, olive, and cherry plum in this beautiful reserve.
This is an opportunity to work alongside our Rangers experiencing the ‘how to’ of caring for our local bush. No experience is necessary – our Rangers will help with weed identification and removal techniques.
Take in the fresh air, get close to nature, and learn about the local environment and how Albury City and community groups are working to protect threatened species, improve habitat, and link habitat corridors across the region.
When: 9:00 am to 11:00 am (2 hrs)
Where: Meet at the Corrys Wood car park.
What is supplied: All tools and any specific safety equipment needed.
What to bring: BYO drinking water. For your safety, please wear covered shoes (preferably boots), long pants, long sleeves, and a hat.
Please register here! Sometimes things change at the last minute and we need to be able to contact volunteers.
Thank you to Albury City Council for financial support for this program.

Border Bushwalking Club - Mt Loch and Mt Hotham
2024-10-30 | Check the event listing for venue details
Both of these walks start and finish at Loch Carpark.
Even though Mt Loch, 1887m, is the 4th highest mountain in Victoria, our walk starts at 1800m. From Loch car park, there is a 4km walk through alpine heath to the summit of Mount Loch, where there are good views of the High Plains, Mt Hotham and the rugged east face of Mt Feathertop. We will start by following the Australian Alpine Walking Track for 3.5 km to pole 60 and then follow a vehicle track north past the rocky basalt columns for 0.5 km. Climb to the summit along a track on the north western side of Mt Loch. Return by the same route. Approx 8km return 230m climb.
Before heading back down the mountain, we will dump our packs at the cars and just take a drink bottle to the summit of Mt Hotham, an easy 1,2km stroll, 80m climb from Loch Carpark.

Grade 2 Easy-Medium
Leader: Deb
Phone: 0410047884 before 8pm
Participant numbers: Up to 10
Final booking date: Wednesday 27th November.
For more information and updates about BBC activities, check www.borderbushwalkingclub.com.au

Living Plant Based: Diet and Climate Change
2024-10-27 12:00 - 14:30 | Beechworth Railway Station, 1B Harper Avenue, Beechworth, 3747
This month join us for a shared plantbased pot luck lunch and a discussion of diet and climate change and whether the Plant Based Treaty is a way forward.
BYO plantbased dish – if unsure a fruit platter or a bowl of cooked potatoes with hummus is perfect

Beechworth walk
2024-10-26 09:30 - 15:00 | Beechworth
Join the Albury Wodonga Field Naturalists for a walk in the Beechworth area to explore the plants and birdlife in this region. Meet at the Beechworth Court House, Ford St. Beechworth, at 9.30am on Saturday 26 October 2024.
For further information telephone 0409 954 476

Birds on Farms in the Wodonga Hills
2024-10-25 09:30 - 11:30 | Address details available to registered attendees
Wodonga Urban Landcare Network in conjunction with Leneva Castle Creek Landcare are excited to invite you to a “Birds of Farms” field morning in the Wodonga Hills.
Peter Callanan and Christine Odewahn purchased their property in 2018 and are transforming the property with shelterbelts to protect from wind, creekline revegetation to slow erosion, farm dam restoration work and planned revegetation to enhance habitat for birds. Join Peter and Christine to hear their story and Ben Humphries from Birdlife Australia who will tell us about the BirdLife Australia “Birds on Farms” program prior to leading us on a short walk to explore the property, hone our birdwatching skills and record what birds are present.
BirdLife Australia’s “Birds on Farms” project is a great way to learn your birds and record changes on your property over time with 20 minute surveys 4 times a year using BirdLife Australia’s Birdata app.
If you are a property owner come along and learn about the program and how birds benefit your farm operation.
If you don’t have a property….dont worry, BirdLife Australia is always on the lookout for volunteer birdwatchers or those with a keen interest in birds who want to learn. Birdlife Australia offers training to support participants to the program and this event is a great chance to learn more. No bird watching experience is necessary!
This is a free event but registration is essential (address provided on registration).
Bookings: events.humanitix.com/birds-wodonga-hills
Morning tea will be provided
Physical Fitness level required: EASY ( Walking for 1 or more hours required)

Yindyamarra and Horseshoe Lagoon Community Stewardship Morning
2024-10-24 09:00 - 11:00 | Check the event listing for venue details
Join Parklands Rangers to help find and remove woody weeds such as privet, olive, cherry plum, hawthorn, and wild tobacco in this beautiful reserve.
This is an opportunity to work alongside our Rangers experiencing the ‘how to’ of caring for our local bush. No experience is necessary – our Rangers will help with weed identification and removal techniques.
Take in the fresh air, get close to nature, and learn about the local environment and how Albury City and community groups are working to protect threatened species, improve habitat, and link habitat corridors across the region.
When: 9:00 am to 11:00 am (2 hrs)
Where: Meet at the Horseshoe Lagoon car park off the Riverina Hwy.
What is supplied: All tools and any specific safety equipment needed.
What to bring: BYO drinking water. For your safety, please wear covered shoes (preferably boots), long pants, long sleeves, and a hat.
Please register here! Sometimes things change at the last minute and we need to be able to contact volunteers.
Thank you to Albury City Council for financial support for this program.

MONTHLY REPAIR CAFE HASTINGS WORKSHOP
2024-10-20 13:00 - 16:00 | Hastings Community Hub, 1973 Frankston-Flinders Rd, Hastings, 3915
The Repair Cafe is a place where skilled volunteers fix, repair and mend household & personal items for reuse or repurpose. This helps pass on special skills and keeps the circular economy going in the community and items out of landfill. We are a not-for-profit community organisation which relies on kind donations from the community to also keep us going. Kids activities and light refreshments are available as part of the Repair Cafe services. We are currently running just one session per month (usually on the third Sunday of each month) at The Hastings Community Hub. We have a great group of volunteers but are also seeking more volunteers to assist in all areas of operating the Repair Cafe (on site and behind the scenes) as our visitor numbers grow. Training provided. Please inquire if interested in helping out or attending one of our next repair sessions – we would love to meet you!
