Hello,

We are looking for some small clean jars (without labels) for our preserves cook up coming up this week on Tuesday (1-3pm).

We will be cooking up more pickles, jams and relishes to sell at the Christmas Makers Market this Saturday 22nd of November, and are very happy for more hands if you’d like to come along and help out!

If you do have jars, it would be super if you could drop them to us by 10am Tuesday - so we can have them ready to go for the afternoon actvities.

Hi everyone,

We’re looking forward to seeing you this morning at Garden to Plate after last week’s holiday. We’re going to be cooking with the chives from our garden today. Also a reminder that our 2nd Monday of the month Book Club is on tonight at 7.30pm.

AAA Bowls is back this Wednesday after a break last week. It will be running from 10am-12pm at the Alphington Bowls Club and will run for 4 more weeks - with the last program on the 3rd of December. At the same time we’ll also have our Weekly Playgroup running here in the front garden and Line Dancing on at the Scout Hall (nooooo how to choose????). Then Armchair Theatre is again on at 1pm. Wednesday evening Keiko is also running Sound Healing with Crystal Bowls at 7pm.

We’re back again with Crunch this Thursday - keep reading and you might just get a sneak peek at the pretty cool things we get up to (or come along and join in - more people are very welcome)!

Friday we’ll see you once again at our Community Morning and Community Lunch, and AAA Arts will be running in the afternoon.

Lastly, we’re sorry to say that although the Men’s Breakfast is scheduled for this Saturday, it won’t be running as John is still injured. Look out for the next one happening in 2026, and until then we’re wishing him all the best!

Cheers, Leanne

Last week at Crunch (Creative Lunch) we got to work on an extra-special project that we hope you’ll all get to see in person soon - a new ‘welcome’ mosaic. And this week we grouted it.

It’s going to be installed at our new gate into the community garden, but for now we’re just very proud to show it off here. Thanks Crunchers (led by Lee - our resident mosaic expert).

Hi everyone,

It was nice to finish off last week with a Halloween-themed Community Lunch and our AAA Arts group also got into the spirit of things!

Just a reminder that we won’t be open this Monday and Tuesday due to the Cup Weekend public holiday. We hope you’re all enjoying the long weekend as much as we are!

We’ll be back to business as usual on Wednesday. On the radar this week we have:

• Line Dancing on Wednesday morning from 10am-12pm down at Alphington Scout Hall

• Armchair Theatre in the afternoon from 1-3pm (if you’re feeling a little exhausted by the morning’s exercise)

• Or, if you’re in need of a good stretch, Community Yoga will be on in the evening from 5.30-6.30pm

• Book Clubs are running three times this week, on both Wednesday and Thursday evening from 7.30-9pm, and Thursday morning as well from 10-11.30am.

• We have another great Crunch planned for you this Thursday, starting at 12.30pm

• And, of course, we can’t wait to see everyone at Community Lunch on Friday at 12pm, and hope you’ll come along in the morning for gardening outside or craft and chats inside.

Unfortunately, AAA Bowls won’t be running this week as the Alphington Bowls Club has another event on, but we’ll see you there bright-eyed and bushy-tailed next Wednesday!

See you soon!

Cheers Leanne

A date for your diary.

It’s that time of year again… the weather is warming up, the magpies have nearly finished swooping, and our very creative community are working hard to provide another classic Christmas Makers Market. This year it will be on Saturday the 22nd of November from 11am - 2pm.

We’ll have a whole lot of great stalls selling things by talented locals, including the CWA, and our own jams and preserves, a sausage sizzle (obviously) and fun Christmassy kids’ activities.

Get in some early Christmas shopping and enjoy the (hopefully) lovely weather, and catch up with friends in the local community!