What do tea, samurai clans, William McArthur, Benjamin Franklin, Vietnam and the Mt Tomah Botanic Gardens have in common? Read on to explore the way camellias and cultures are woven together and why it’s important we think about conserving biodiversity as a global project implemented at a local level.
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Blackheath Growers’ Market
8am-12noon Regional food. Meet the growers and producers of a fantastic array of foods on the second Sunday of each month from February to December. In the park outside the Community Centre.
Read More »Sustainability at School: Lessons in The Cycles of Life
Blackheath Public School is providing hands-in-the-dirt lessons on how the students can make their school more sustainable. Students will soon be eating spinach and cheese scrolls made by the canteen using garden produce.
Read More »Incredible Edible Blackheath
Take a tour of the community farms in Blackheath where you'll find alpacas, compost to die for, hundred-year-old ‘Shipley’ apple trees, native bees, friendly faces, wonky tomatoes, life philosophies and much, much more.
Read More »The Walking Weeder: Marianne Bate and the Grose River Catchment
Marianne Bate is passionate about the bush, fascinated by people and ‘relentlessly positive’ about how we can better care for the land we live on. Meet Marianne, and discover the difference Bushcare and Landcare make to people and places in this piece by Hamish Dunlop.
Read More »Horticultural Society Meeting with guest Bill Grattan
Bill Grattan from Bay Tree Nursery. After a light lunch there will be a potting and propagation workshop. $5.
Read More »Counting Creatures to Recover: the Power of Citizen Science to Create Communities
Conservation Volunteers Australia recently facilitated a workshop in Blackheath where volunteers, citizen scientists and experts came together to share knowledge, survey bird populations and monitor nest boxes installed to support antechinus, glider and possum populations.
Read More »Govetts Leap Catchment Group: Collaborating to Protect our Wilderness from Weeds
Keith Brister is on a mission. He and his fellow Bushcare volunteers spent years “achieving the impossible”, protecting Blackheath’s stunning natural bushland, only to see the weeds return when COVID restrictions limited Bushcare. But Keith did not despair. Instead, he asked what else could be done, and set about doing it.
Read More »Swamp Diaries: A Weedy Bunyip & the Water We Drink
The Swamp Diaries is an initiative of the Blue Mountains World Heritage Institute. Over 12 months, artists are spending time with precious and endangered upland swamp ecosystems across the Blue Mountains and creatively documenting the flora and fauna they observe.
Read More »The Misty Valley: Fire, Flood, Covid & Serenity
Hamish Dunlop interviews Deborah Wells in the Blackheath Campbell Rhododendron Gardens. She shares how a group of passionate and dedicated volunteers have created a community space that is a haven for all species, and how they've helped it recover from drought, fire, flood and pandemic.
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