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• Keep Chickens For Eggs

  Keeping chooks provides your household with a daily supply of sensational tasting eggs from a sustainable pet that consumes your kitchen waste and weeds your garden.
  
  Keeping chickens is a great way to turn waste into food, entertain yourself (and your kids), and they increase the nutrients and health of your soil while eating bugs, insects and sometimes mice.
  
  How to do it now!
  Keeping chickens is easy with the right setup, equipment and knowledge. Always check your local library, bookstore or…

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• Nurture and Conserve Biodiversity

  Create an urban refuge for local biodiversity and enjoy the visual elements, the sounds and serenity of nature in your own backyard.
  
  Nature is something special. It's not just about trees and animals, but also the way they interact with one another and the uniqueness of these relationships. From birds, bats and koalas to insects and worms, they all have an important role to play.
  
  By fostering biodiversity in your backyard you are supporting a diverse variety of plants, animals and micro-o…

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• Local projects receive a boost through Council’s Community Grants Program

  An extensive range of community led initiatives across the Wollondilly Shire will be receiving a boost through Council’s 2023 Community Grants program.
  
  The grants were approved at Tuesday night’s Council meeting with a funding pool of $51,500 to be shared between 30 successful applicants, as well as over $18,000 to support the annual Mayoral School Citizenship Awards and annual community hall rate subsidies.
  
  The grants program provides funding towards projects, events and small capital purchas…

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• Bloom: Wollondilly’s First Garden Expo and Plant Fair

  Wollondilly Shire Council is calling all plant lovers and gardening enthusiasts to come along to BLOOM, Wollondilly’s first Garden Expo and Plant Fair.
  
  Council is thrilled to be hosting BLOOM on Sunday 30 October, from 10am - 4pm at the Picton Botanic Gardens, Regreme Road, Picton.
  
  With live entertainment, informative gardening workshops and demonstrations, and a Children’s Corner jam packed with activities and face painting, this is the perfect day out for friends and family.
  
  There will be a…

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• BLOOM: Wollondilly Garden Expo & Plant Fair

  Wollondilly Shire Council was proud to host the first ever BLOOM: Wollondilly Garden Expo & Plant Fair on Sunday 30 October under sunny skies at the Picton Botanic Gardens.
  
  The event, which attracted over 2000 attendees on the day, featured over 30 market stalls from both local and visiting businesses specialising in outdoor, garden & plant products. The carpark transformed into Eat Street with a selection of Food Trucks and straw bales to sit and grab a bite to eat, while the Children’…

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• Men's Shed

  Men's Shed Shed Locations Short Film Men's Shed Men's Shed Shed Locations Short Film Did you know? Wollondilly has 6 Mens Shed operating throughout our local Towns & Villages?You don’t have to be retired, kicking the bucket or even an ex-tradie to join a Mens Shed!WOLCOMS Mens Shed operate independently by Blokes for Blokes and each shed has it’s own character and charm. Our Mens Sheds are non-judemental inclusive places for blokes to learn new skills, hone in…

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• Guild Planting

  Guild planting is the next step up from companion planting. In a healthy Ecosystem plants grow best alongside their buddies, and diversity is the key. Just like a natural bushland, certain plants like to grow together, and certain plants don’t. Companion plants help each other grow healthier and stronger, they help to attract pollinators, reduce insect pests, improve soil fertility and ultimately produce more leaves, stems, flowers and fruits.
  
  Guild planting is like planting out a mini ecosyste…

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• Sustainable Living Guide

  The Sustainable Living Guide lists a variety of activities you can undertake in your day to day activities to ensure you're doing your best to be sustainable. Find out more.
  
  “Each one of us matters, has a role to play, and makes a difference. Each one of us must take responsibility for our own lives, and above all, show respect and love for living things around us, especially each other.” Jane Goodall
  
   Less stuff, more life.Creating a sustainable life and society, requires we recognise an…

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• Red, Yellow & Green Bins

  Council's Waste & Recycling Service Garbage Emptied Weekly80L, 120L or 240L Items accepted: Food waste Plastic bags and food packaging Coffee cups Nappies Biscuit and chip packets Animal faeces (in a bag) Lids, caps and nozzles Pyrex, mirrors and broken glass Soiled paper or cardboard Polystyrene foam Shredded paper Download our Garbage Bin Fact Sheet Items not accepted: NO recycling NO batteries NO paints or oils NO gas bottles NO fluorescent tubes and globes NO chemicals an…

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• Water Wise and Fire Smart Gardening

  In the wake of the 2019/20 fires people who live near affected areas have been attempting to re-establish plants to repair their gardens and provide habitat for local birds, insects and other fauna.
  
  There are some key ideas that you can use to set up your gardens to reduce risk, be more water wise and create a more resilient landscape.
  
  Download the Water Wise Fire Smart Gardening brochure.
  The Country Fire Authority (CFA) of Victoria have some very useful recommendations on Landscaping to red…

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• Spring Garden Competition Sponsor EOI

  If you are a business or individual interested in sponsoring a category of the Spring Garden Competition 2024, please complete and return the Spring Garden Competition Sponsorship EOI Form, OR complete the online form below. 
  
  For assistance in completing the form or for any further information, please contact Council's Events team on (02) 4677 1100. 
  
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• Spring Garden Competition 2024

  The 2024 Spring Garden Competition is here! Submit your entries between 22 July and 27 September. Judging will take place from 7 to 11 October, with school entries judged on 14 and 15 October. The awards ceremony will be held on 3 November at BLOOM: Wollondilly Garden Expo & Plant Fair.
  
  How to Enter
  For entry details, visit our main page with the Spring Garden Competition Entry Form above.
  
  Sponsorship
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• House and Home

  Our home and garden can be a healthy Eden of self-sufficiency or a bottomless pit of resource-consuming ecological inefficiency. So how do we manage our ecological footprint & set it on a sustainable path?
  
  House and Home Actions
  
  Assess your homes sustainability
  Like many of us, and with
  the impending carbon price, you may be thinking about ways to save money at home.
  
  Buy renewable electricity
  Every time you use electricity in your home greenhouse gases are belched out on your behalf. So b…

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• Harvest and use your rainwater

  Install a rainwater tank to collect and store rain hitting your roof and use it to water your garden, wash your clothes or fill your toilet.
  
  By capturing and using the rain that falls on our houses - water that currently flows into the stormwater drain - we are taking another step in increasing our water efficiency and conserving this precious resource. Have a plumber redirect your down pipes into a tank for storage and install pumps and pipes to service some of your household water needs. By t…

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• Make your renovations green

  Renovations are the ideal opportunity to make your house more efficient and sustainable. Try these tips and feel good about your home.
  
  From the design through to the construction of your renovation, opportunities exist to lighten your environmental footprint. These changes can range from short-term aspects (e.g. safely managing and recycling building waste) to long-term improvements in the energy efficiency of your home.
  
  If you're renovating, explore good design: it can save energy, water…

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