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.

News

We’re looking for two short term contractors

Barry Gibson

Ballarat Permaculture Guild is looking for two short term (approx. 7 months) contractors to help us with our two major projects. If you are interested in either of these roles, please send through an expression of interest by the 16th of November 2026 with any relevant experience to info@ballaratpermacultureguild.org

Implementation Officer - Community Orchard
This person will support the implementation of the Community Orchard Project

Responsibilities include

  • Organise updated quotes for infrastructure items covered by grants
  • Assist with planning permit applications where necessary
  • Laise with external contractors 
  • Laise with utility providers to install utilities
  • Manage project plan to ensure project is running to time
  • Attend Implementation group meetings to provide updates where required

Work Hours
This is a fixed-term contract position with variable hours. Weekly hours will fluctuate based on operational needs but are expected to be between 2 and 6 hours per week.

Rate
The contract rate for this role is $62.50 inclusive of GST

Events Coordinator – Backyard Bounty
This person will support the running of the Backyard Bounty events

Responsibilities include

  • To organise events including workshops, and garden tours, including contacting and scheduling hosts
  • Manage events calendar to limit clashes
  • Laise with Blitz team to support their events
  • Set-up event pages on Humanitix
  • Manage ticket sales, and attendee enquiries
  • Advertise events on social media channels

Work Hours
This is a fixed-term contract position with variable hours. Weekly hours will fluctuate based on operational needs but are expected to be up-to 8 hours per week during the initial host recruitment, and then maintaining at 1 or 2 hours per week for the remainer of the project.

Rate
The contract rate for this role is $50.00 inclusive of GST.

If you are interested in either of these roles, please send through an expression of interest by the 16th of November 2026 with any relevant experience to info@ballaratpermacultureguild.org

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