Home Grown Garden Tour 2022
Visit local gardens and growers for the 10th annual Home Grown Garden Tour!
The Armidale Climate and Health Project is a series of workshops addressing this question, and building local knowledge and skills. Workshops have run intermittently throughout the year, and we are partnering with Sustainable Living Armidale for the Home Grown Garden Tour 26-27th Feb 2022.
Visit local gardens and growers for the 10th annual Home Grown Garden Tour!
Supporting a local Anaiwan campaign to buy land, decolonise property and create new
Supporting the local Aboriginal community to revitalise the East Armidale Aboriginal Community Garden
The health impacts of the climate crisis are being felt around the globe, but the effects are not evenly distributed either geographically or socially. On one hand, some places will warm faster than others, but, on the other, some communities and people are more vulnerable to the health impacts than others. As such, the different risks of climate change are already worsening the inequities already present in our society. We want to address that injustice in the Armidale community while also working to both adapt to and mitigate the worst effects of climate change.This grassroots initiative aims to build community connections, recognise diverse needs, centre Indigenous knowledge and seed sustainable action to address health issues related to climate change at a local level.
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Climate and health seem to combine in the garden, being outdoors, hands in soil, healing for people, healing for place. As the project developed we
As part of the COP26 Creek Walk collaboration with Kings College in London, we interviewed Anaiwan and Gumbaynggirr artist Gabi Briggs and Anaiwan elder Uncle
By Gabi Briggs, Sujata Allan and Jennifer Hamilton Published on Page 9 of the Armidale Express December 3, 2021 After a weekend of wild winds
This project is proudly supported by the NSW Government Adapt NSW Increasing Reslience to Climate Change Community Grant; and the Community Weathering Station, Armajun Aboriginal Health Service, Sustainable Living Armidale and University of New England.
We acknowledge that the work of this project is taking place on Anaiwan Country, we acknowledge that the custodianship of the land and waters is shared with the Gomeroi, Dunghutti, Birpi and Gumbaynggirr people. We pay our respect to elders past and present, and acknowledge sovereignty over land and waters was never ceded. We also would like to welcome any Indigenous people visiting this site to reach out to participate in the project. We aim for this project to can contribute to the repair of damage done by the process of colonisation.