Rotarian club member Robert Stringer has a passion for practical sustainable living. He and Mary’s Heidelberg home is a wonderland of examples including a very productive permaculture garden and aquaculture setup. It was aquaculture that provided the topic for...

4 November Meeting Local resident Robert Bender has been working on the garden beds around Ivanhoe Station for 20 years. “Every plant was a serious environmental weed” reported Robert—like Chilean Needle Grass and Central American Cactus, and of course the...

Tracey Young - Silver Spoon Estate Tracie Young, long-time friend of Beverley, started in the wine indus-try in 2008 after purchasing a 350 acre property just north of Heath-cote- called ‘Silver Spoon Estate’ after a geological fault line and old mine of the same name...

14 October Meeting Una Hobday is a passionate advocate for the Rotary Food Plant Solutions initiative. Started in 2007, the Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group empowers people through education about the nutritional value of local food plants. The project was...

Last week's meeting we discussed the idea of a virtual sausage sizzle and we (through Rebekah) have now set up a page. The link to the website to donate is here.. https://sausage-sizzle-ivanhoe.raisely.com Happy sizzling! Join us this week to hear from Una Hobday from...

A report on last week's meeting. Rosemary Freeman - Rotary Club of Moreland Our Club joined in the ZOOM meeting with the Rotary Club of Moreland to hear Rosemary Freeman relate her first-hand experiences of Covid-19. Rosemary is a healthcare professional in a private...

A report from our last meeting. Hope Springs. John Rumble is the Coordinator of ‘Hope Springs’, a mental health ministry of the Banyule group of Uniting churches. It is for people with mental illness, acquired brain inju-ry, other disabilities, or anyone who is...

Wednesday September 9 Meeting - The Little Vegetable Jack and his partner Belle run ‘The Little Vegetable’, an organic grocery store in East Ivanhoe village. Having grown up in Alphington Jack knows the area well. After closure of another similar business in Waterdale...