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2026 AGM and Social Night 15 Sept 2026

Barry Gibson

Join the Ballarat Permaculture Guild for their Annual General Meeting and social night!

We are meeting at 6:00pm on Tuesday 15th Sep 2026 at Bunch of Grapes Hotel in Pleasant Street South, Ballarat.

After some drinks and food, the BPG committee and financial members will conduct the official AGM proceedings.

This will include the annual reports and election of office bearers.

Non-members are welcome to continue gathering while the AGM is completed.

The AGM should be complete by around 7:45pm, after which time we can continue socialising together. There's no better time to get to know our members and see what we've been up to this year.

We hope to see you there!

AGM Details

Date:Tuesday 15th September 2026
Registration & Welcome6:00pm - 7:00pm
AGM Time:7:00pm - 7:455pm
Social Gathering:From 7:45pm
Place:Bunch of Grapes Hotel – conference room
401 Pleasant street South, Ballarat 3350               

AGM Resources:

Download BPG AGM Agenda 2026

Download Minutes from the previous AGM held on 18 November 2025

Download BPG Annual Report 2026 - Coming soon

Download BPG Committee nomination form

Tickets

https://events.humanitix.com/2026-agm-and-social-night-15-sep-2026

Backyard Bounty, Events

Upcoming Events

Barry Gibson

As part of the Backyard Bounty, we have some amazing events coming up, with more being added in the near future.

Permies at the Pub

Every 4th Thursday of the month from 6 pm. Most people have a meal, but that's not essential, you can just drop in for a drink and a chat. It's a great way to check us out without committing to anything 😉  As we need to book a table, please let us know via the Facebook reminder for the event, or email to info@ballaratpermacultureguild.org if you'd like to attend.

Events, News, Permablitz

Introducing Backyard Bounty

Barry Gibson

What is it?
Backyard Bounty is a year-long project aimed at building community resilience through local food production and sharing.

When will it run?
The project will run from June 2026 – June 2027 allowing us to run events focussing on all seasons

How are we going to achieve this?
There will three main areas to encourage local food production in local backyards:

  • Run a series of low-cost workshops in specialist skill areas that are important to successful home and local food production (e.g. introduction to vegetable gardening, setting up a home orchard, growing food on small plots, grafting, pruning, compost making, keeping chickens)
  • Coordinating series of food garden open days by local experts to show the diversity of ideas for food production in a backyard context, these would focus on growing healthy nutrient dense food
  • Run a series of Permablitzes to facilitate community working bees to 'make over' home gardens for maximum food production based on permaculture design principles

Register here to be notified of upcoming events.

News

New pickup location for BPG Library

Karen Goodwin
Picture of library shelf in circle

Hi Permies!

Don’t forget, as a member of the Ballarat Permaculture Guild, you are able to access the hundreds of library books BPG holds.

The library has a new collection point in Ballarat East

Check out the catalogue today:  https://www.librarycat.org/lib/BPG 

Once you select a book, we will get an email about your reserve. We will let you know when it is ready to collect, via a confirmation email with the pick up address.

Your loan will be automatically set for 90 days. You will get a reminder email when the item is due for return.

Happy reading!

Permablitz

Haddon Community Garden Blitz

Barry Gibson

Did you see us in the local rag in Haddon?

We had a great blitz out at Haddon in May, this is one of 2 community Blitzes held during the month. We had a great group of participants including from the Haddon community, HCLC staff and children from the Haddon Primary School, as well as a couple of BPG facilitators.

We managed to do a number of jobs including installing and filling 8 Wicking beds, as well as a multispecies windbreak.

To read the article in full go to:

The Woady Yaloak Herald – Winter 2025 - The Haddon CLC