Tracie McMahon takes you on a foraging journey of discovery and delicious meals with local experts in fungi and foraged plants.
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Hassans Walls: A Gem to Discover
Explore Hassans Walls on a walk with Tracie McMahon and the authors of "Native Plants: Hassans Walls Reserve Lithgow"
Read More »Maldhan Ngurr Ngurra Lithgow Transformation Hub: An Evolving Story of Community & Learning
Lithgow features as a backdrop on ABC TV’s The Messenger, as the fictional town of Moledale. This is the story of one of our prized buildings and the community that built, maintained and restored it to become the Maldhan Ngurr Ngurra Lithgow Transformation Hub.
Read More »Young Voices ‘Shaping the Future’
At Provocations, the Seven Valleys Festival of Big Ideas, local high school students, Ollyvar Baker, Samara Kirkland and Jasmin Cole, performed poetry that communicated the future they want to see.
Read More »Megalong in the Megalong Valley: How Close is the Pasture to your Plate?
Hamish Dunlop visits Megalong Restaurant and Lot 101 Farm in the Megalong Valley. He talks with Chef Colin Barker and Farm Manager Mark Wells about their philosophy of sustainability, being self-sufficient and reducing the time between pasture and plate.
Read More »Food is Love: Perspectives on Life from an Afghan Refugee
Afghan refugee Esmat Noori cooks for members of the Blue Mountains community at a fundraising lunch in Blackheath. The event was organised to support a group of young women in Afghanistan studying to be nurses under the Taliban regime.
Read More »‘Somewhere to Live’: Singing the Song of Homelessness
Hamish Dunlop attended the launch of ‘Somewhere to Live’, a song written and performed by The Blue Gums, Voices for Social Change. The song and accompanying video aim to raise awareness about the impacts of homelessness and housing insecurity in the Blue Mountains and across the Greater Sydney region.
Read More »Observing the Birds of the Blue Mountains with Carol Probets
A passionate birder for over 40 years, Carol Probets shares the joys of birdwatching, while revealing the changes to the prevailing birds of the Blue Mountains and why they matter.
Read More »Finding Your Feet in Nature’s Playground
For seven years, Blaxland Preschool Kindergarten has been delivering an innovative nature-based program that encourages adventure & risk-taking. Inspired by Scandinavian Forest Kindergartens, Bush Preschool is offered to children one day a fortnight.
Read More »Barometers of Climate Change: Artists and Therapists at the Braemar Gallery
Six Blue Mountains artists take strikingly different approaches to expressing ecological emotions associated with fire, flood and pandemic.
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