Welcome to Castlemaine Community House!
Castlemaine Community House is a welcoming place, bringing people together to connect and strengthen our community.
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Most classes and activities start in the week beginning 6 February. Music playgroup and community lunch back Tuesday 7 February in the Town Hall (Frederick Street entrance).
We have a number of new classes starting in February, including workshops and classes on digital creativity, cooking, permaculture design, and much more. You can email bookings to education@cch.org.au and we will confirm your booking as soon as possible. For the full list of courses and more details, including start dates of new courses, click here.
Read more...Harvest time!
Harvesting begins again soon! If you want to become a volunteer, or add neglected trees to the list, please get in contact. Email harvest@cch.org.au or phone 5472 4842 or read more about the Harvest Group.
If you’ve got fruit trees that are sighing under the weight of an abundant crop that you and all your neighbours can’t possibly eat all of, let us know about it and we will send our wonderful team of volunteers to harvest your excess. Here’s how it generally works:
- Let us know: by email: harvest@cch.org.au or phone: 5472 4842 when your fruit is ready to pick. You can tell your fruit is ready because it’s falling off the tree, it tastes sweet, it is soft-ish and comes off the tree easily. Also let us know what days and times we can come to harvest.
- Call out: we then send out an email to our volunteer harvest network with the harvesting date, time and place.
- Harvest: you get a third of the fruit, volunteer harvesters get a third and the remaining fruit gets bottled or goes to local organisations such as childcare centres and primary schools.
- Prune: we will endeavour to come back in winter/spring to prune and feed your trees. This is dependent on volunteer numbers vs number of trees we harvest from. If we can’t make it back to your house, we can provide advice on how to prune.
- The perks: as a Growing Abundance volunteer (harvesting, donating fruit, helping with events etc) you get FREE access to all our wonderful workshops which include fruit tree pruning, compost making, natural pest control, preserving, cider making, olive oil pressing etc.
Local Produce Guide
Read more about the Local Produce Guide and see photos of the launch at the Market Building on 24 November 2011. Download the Local Produce Guide for Mount Alexander Shire (4.3Mb). We’re waiting for a reprint of The Local Produce Guide – the first print run sold out in a few days. It will be available again in February, price $15, from the six retailers who are displaying the local produce stickers:
Harry and George’s, 170 Barker Street, Castlemaine
Green goes the Grocer, 29a Templeton Street, Castlemaine
Castlemaine Fruit Supplies, 73 Mostyn Street, Castlemaine
Maldon 50km Local, 63 Main Street, Maldon
The Little Red Apple, 8795 Midland Highway, Barkers Creek
The Food Garden, 61 Main Street, Campbells Creek