Category: News
Highlights from Girls’ Trip, helping girls connect, have fun and grow
[Girls Trip] helps encourage creativity, and a broader range of thinking for parents and daughters. It raises confidence in both as well. – Linda Russell, mother What do you long for, for a girl you care about? That she has confidence to speak up, and show up, in whatever way […]
Fervor Fever | Pop Up Truffle Degustation in a secret garden
Truffle season in Manjimup has begun as the last colours of autumn fall to the ground. There’s a kindness in sporadic winter sunlight, relief in the rain. A fire in the corner crackles and pops. Our wheelbarrow is full of promised wood, and us? We’re sweeping the hearth in preparation […]
The Inaugural Right to Food Coalition
We attended the inaugural Right to Food Coalition in Casula, NSW, this week, and met a bunch of passionate people who are very aware of the need for access to food for everyone in Australia. The latest Australian Council of Social Services (ACOSS) report quoted at the conference indicates that: […]
2014 WAVE Electric Vehicle Festival, Stuttgart
Coming face to face with a stuffed horse was not what I had expected at Europe’s biggest gathering of electric vehicle enthusiasts. We were in Germany, and likely to see a world record broken, when over 500 electric vehicles gathered together in Stuttgart. Having just converted the Stellar Violets ute […]
Ecological gardens of France ~ Terre Vivante
To celebrate their 20th Anniversary, Terre Vivante, an educational garden farm in France held a special open day. Terre Vivante means “living earth”, and I’d wanted to visit ever since one of their lovely little preserving books fell into my hands. There was no public transport to the closest village. […]
Making Mothers’ Day meaningful planting Trees For Mums on Stellar Violets verge in 2013
On Sunday, Stellar Violets and friends celebrated and honoured mums, planting persimmons and walnuts alongside Middlesex road. Best Mothers’ Day I’ve had in a long time. A beautiful morning brought a wonderful turnout of friends and families, some coming and going as the planting took place between 9 and 11am, […]
Vacola preserving: weekend workshop
‘There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.’ Ralph Waldo Emerson. He couldn’t have been more wrong. Crunchy pears, slightly soft pears, and pears preserved in myriad ways, pears please me in ways many fruits can’t, giving me almost year round […]
Preserving journey: into the wild (fermentation) we go
Modern day preserving methods often require using a lot of sugar. And let’s be honest, it produces some special results in the form of jams, chutneys and bottled fruits to enjoy year round. Most methods using sugar demand cooking at high temperatures, which can kill off beneficial health-giving enzymes in […]
World energy and finance expert Nicole Foss in Manjimup, hosted by Stellar Violets
March kicked off a treat when we hosted Canadian energy and finance speaker Nicole Foss for our very first event in Manjimup. She’s been and long gone. But we’re still here, and the future of our communities is still ahead for us to bring into being. So perhaps this belated […]