It’s on again, one of our biggest events of the year!
So plan your car pooling, make your lantern, rug up and get down to the Arb this Friday from 4pm-6pm. Lanterns, Damper, Storytelling by the fire.
You must book and there’s only 20 tickets remaining. Under 12’s FREE, $5 other tickets.
https://www.trybooking.com/CRRXN
Our website has had many updates and with many tours, wawa biik cultural tours, art classes and our solstice lantern favourite – we’ve created an Events page.
Some of these are FREE, or with a ticket price – we hope you can make it along and all require a booking.
We have a new Tours Page on this website which features our new paid tours by Bronte Haines who is our Grassy Groundcover Restoration Coordinator and Cathy Olive who is the Development Manager at the Arb.
If you watched the Gardening Australia segment about us, you saw both Bronte and Cathy speak and both have a vast knowledge and their tours are always loved and sold out. We limit our tours to 20 people so you’ll get the most out of it and have time to ask questions.
Visit our Tours page to find out more and the next upcoming tour with Bronte is not far off!…
The wait is over, the Gardening Australia segment filmed last October will screen this Friday – the ‘Reseeding Euroa’ story with Millie will go to air on ABC on Friday 26th April at 7:30pm and will be repeated the following Sunday at 1:30pm. The episode will also be available to watch on iView, from 7:00am on the morning of the day it goes to air.
It was exciting for our staff and volunteers to be involved during the filming and they not only told the story of the Seedbank but of the volunteering and what we’ve achieved at the grounds – from a sheep paddock until now.…
Our retail nursery opens today from 12-4pm for the 2024 plant season.
Pop in to see Jemma, Fearghus, Kirsten and Charlotte in the nursery- there’s a new retail area, new plant labels which will give details on sizes and where to plant in your garden.
The plants are looking beaut with a wide variety.
Open Monday & Thursday
12-4pm
Closed public holidays…
Are you interested in some hands-on-dirt experience managing Grassy Woodlands for biodiversity? Learn about our indigenous groundcover species, including lilies, forbs and grasses, while assisting the Euroa Arboretum to restore and care for the biodiversity of our shared patch.
We match our activities to the weather and seasons, meeting once a month between March-November.
Learn the skills required to establish and maintain a grassy meadow garden, or native grassland on your property, while helping tend the beautiful grounds of the Arboretum.
For more information or to join our Monday group contact Bronte.…
wawa biik Taungurung Cultural Experiences are led by Taungurung guides on Taungurung Country. This new 2.5 hour wawa Euroa wayilak (young people) experience provides children aged 5-12 years with an introduction to Taungurung culture, giving them a fun, hands on learning about cultural use of plants for food, medicine and tools, all within the wonderfully engaging setting of the Euroa Arboretum.
Next tour: Tuesday 9th April 2024 (school holidays)
Includes time with Taungurung guides, an art class, Welcome Smoking Ceremony and bush tucker tastings.
Adults $90 per person
Children: $60 per person
Time: 10am – 12.30pm
Book via: www.wawabiik.com.au…
Hi everyone,
I do hope you have been enjoying Spring. I often express the love/hate relationship I have with spring to those around me. I am completely enraptured by greeting my favourite flowers again, watching the bird activity of nest building and raising new chicks, and a faithful pair of Blue Tongues who come back and breed under my deck each year – surprising me in the garden periodically and inquisitively watching me while I work. This is offset by the crazy schedule of weed control before the annual grasses set seed, getting the last plants in the ground for the year, starting a new season in the nursery while winding up the old season’s plants, and bracing ourselves for the seed collecting season.
We love to show off the Arb during this time too. The grounds really are glorious and we have been lucky to have been filmed recently by Gardening Australia with presenter Millie Ross. The session will show next year sometime – stay tuned! We also had a lovely Wildflower day at the end of October with our local favourite people, (Janet, Justus, Bronte and Charlotte) presenting – engaging kids and adults with flower filled activities and some management tips for grasslands. Nicki Munroe, specialist in burrowing Australian mammals, also joined us and kept us very entertained with yarns about Bilbies and Bandicoots. If you missed the wildflower day or haven’t been for a visit lately, drop in and have a walk. It really is a lovely time to be wandering through the grassland.
We’ve had a few new additions to our team of late. We welcome Rose Young who will be taking over from Angus Thompson as our commercial manager – assisting us with business planning, staffing and our strategic direction and partnerships. Angus has been trying to retire for some time, so we will eventually let him step back. Angus has been instrumental in assisting us to grow the Arb business and become more self sustaining. His advice and direction have been invaluable. Jemma Norman has joined the nursery team and assists Fearghus in the nursery with growing and selling plants. You may have had a chat with Jemma lately if you’ve been in for some plants. Our bush crew have been out and about and will be busy over summer with seed collection work. Nellie Watson and Steph Brophy join Mim and Joe on the bush crew – planting, weed control and soon to be busy picking seed.
While the nursery will close the door for the year on Thursday 16th November, rest assured we will still be working away! Volunteers are always welcome to assist with seed or nursery work. We will be back again in March 2024 for fresh plants in the nursery, or you can catch us for last minute plants at the Euroa Farmers Market every 3rd Saturday of the month.
Thanks everyone for your continued support.
Cathy Olive – Development Officer
Euroa Arboretum
We would love you to come and join in the festivities – end of year celebration and thank you for the work you have done in the beautiful surrounds of the Euroa Arboretum.
There will be a guest speaker – Alana Johnson OAM – who will talk about her insights of communities taking action.
Buffet of food available and a celebration of what is happening across the catchment from all our Community NRM networks and groups.
Meet the Landcare Facilitators and Coordinators from around the catchment and the volunteers behind the hard work.
Feel free to contact Kerstie Lee 0437 310 840 or kerstiel@gbcma.vic.gov.au for more information or Register here https://forms.office.com/r/iL9e91UX79
Whilst the Arboretum Grasslands are in full bloom, join us for a day filled with activities for Adults and Children.
Lunch is included in ticket price. * Special dietary requirements not catered for.
*Family ticket price includes 2 Adults + 2 Children.
– Welcome to Country with Aunty Jo
– Grassland Tours
– Stories for kids in the nest
– Zumba & Qi Gong
– Building a Blue Banded Bee hotel
– Minibeasts Wander
– Bandicoots and Bilbies – the role of digging mammals.
– Making a flower press
– Coffee Van
– Partner Stalls
WELCOME TO COUNTRY WITH AUNTY JO
Taungurung Elder Aunty Jo Honeysett will begin our ‘Arb & Friends” day with a Welcome to Country in the very special welcome circle.
It’s such a special way to begin the day and connect with country.
BANDICOOTS AND BILBIES
For those keen to learn more about ‘Bandicoots and Bilbies’, join ecologist Nicki Munro for an in-person chat about this little creatures.
GRASSLAND TOURS
October is when the Grasslands are at their peak – in full flower.
Take one of the tours with Cathy Olive and Bronte Haines to learn about the species, bush tucker, the history of the Arb from a sheep paddock to an award winner.
There will be a morning and afternoon tour.
MINIBEASTS WANDER
Kids, pack your gumboots and come for a wander!
You’ll be taken on a guided minibeasts adventure, will there be yabbis? Frogs? Dragonflies?
Join in and tell us all about what you discover!
GOULBURN BROKEN INDIGENOUS SEEDBANK
Did you know that the Seedbank is part of the Arb?
We’ll have a big display of seed types and can talk to you about what we do.
NURSERY STALL PLANT SALE
It’s our end of season plant sale and we’ll have a stall setup on the day.
All plants are $2 and there’s a wide selection of garden plants.
Saturday 28 October 2023 10:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Euroa Arboretum
Euroa Main Road, 76 Hume Fwy, Euroa Vic 3666
We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which we work. We pay our respects to the rich cultures and to the elders past and present.
