Are you a keen gardener? We’d love some help in our garden on Friday mornings. Clare is here from 10-11.30am working to maintain our lovely community garden space and building up the capacity of our seed library and the other gardening resources onsite - and at the same time sharing seasonal gardening expertise and composting tips and tricks etc.

If you enjoy a chat and like gardening perhaps you’d like to come along? This program is suitable for young families and retirees, and anyone in between who enjoys gardening.

Note the program concludes with morning tea at 11.30am. We hope to see you soon!

Hi everyone, we are running a bit late this year - but we do finally have our new brochure out into the interwebs … and the universe!

Highlights in the first term include:

• the Alphington Show and Dog Show on Saturday 25 March (save the date and start your craft/food projects)

• a series of Jamming (and Preserving) workshops through February and March to make the most of local fruit trees and build up some items to sell for fundraising for ACC

In the second term we’re running a series of workshops including:

• Podcasting 101 over 4 weeks

• Indian cooking over 3 weeks

• Recycled Timber Design with Jane, and

• Pillow Talk with Annie.

Also … movie club on Tuesday afternoon once a month (we’ll head down to Westgarth Cinema - fun!).

You can check it all out here or visit our home page. You can also book in via our website. Not everything is up for booking into yet … but we hope it will be in the next few days!

Are you keen to join our Women in the Shed program for 2023? We’re now taking bookings for Term 1 and Term 2. Just head to our website here to book in.

It is a wonderful 6 week program that runs on Thursdays for 6 weeks. In the course you will be introduced to all the basic tools in a shed and will get to practise using them across a series of projects.

So … you’ll finish the course with a whole lot of new skills, loads of confidence and some lovely creations.

Women in the Shed is run by Maylei Hunt and is a really popular program. So if you are interested to join up you should book in sooner rather than later! If you miss out on a place, please email us at info@alphington.org.au and we will be able to add you to the waiting list.

We have a few spots available in our book clubs for next year if you are interested in joining one!

Please note that the first meetings for our book clubs will be in February - and our office is closed until the first week of February - so if you join up now we will get your paperwork and you will get a spot - but Kalimna wont be processing the paperwork or getting in touch until she is back at her desk.

Our book clubs are a partnership with Darebin Libraries and are a great way to meet a lovely cross section of people from the local community.

It costs $60 a year to join. You can book in online here.

We hope that the weather will be warm and that lots of people will come along to enjoy the Carols at the Bowls Club this Sunday 18th at 7pm.