Southern Otway Landcare Network

20/10/2026

SOLN End-of-Year Celebration & AGM

Saturday 12 Dec

Celebrate the year that’s been with fellow Landcarers!

Join us at the nursery for an evening of live music, a delicious dinner and good company as we come together to celebrate another year of caring for our Southern Otway landscapes and seascapes.

SOLN Annual General Meeting – 4pm

We’ll kick off the afternoon with the Southern Otway Landcare Network (SOLN) AGM at 4pm, followed by our end-of-year celebration.

This is our chance to say thank you and express our deep gratitude for the care, passion and dedication you’ve shared throughout the year. Thank you for being part of our Landcare community and helping care for the places we love.

We’ll provide the food, music and celebratory atmosphere. We just ask that you please bring:

Your own drinks and a glass

A handmade decoration to hang on The Tree

A wrapped Kris Kringle gift — something homemade, repurposed or grown — to gift to another

Please RSVP by 27 November so we can cater for everyone. When you RSVP, please let us know about any dietary requirements for yourself or anyone coming with you.

We look forward to celebrating another wonderful year of Landcare with you!

Registrations essential- https://form.fillout.com/t/hTWCCmBnsDus

08/10/2026

NURSERY OPEN DAY & ONE-DAY SALE!

Come and visit Shrub Club Community Nursery in Apollo Bay on Sunday 18 October, 9am–2pm!

We’re fully stocked with a gorgeous selection of local Indigenous plants, including groundcovers, wildflowers, shrubs, trees and ferns.

A HUGE SELECTION OF SHRUBS & TREES JUST $2.50 EACH — ONE DAY ONLY!

Come along, have a browse and stock up for spring planting while supporting landcare and your local community nursery.

Shrub Club Community Nursery
Piggery Lane, Apollo Bay
At the Barwon Water Treatment Plant

03/10/2026

A few of the plants flowering at the nursery at the moment 🌼 and some of their visitors!

We’re open this week Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 10–1.

Come in, say hi and maybe take some plants home!🧡

24/09/2026

🌱 Community Planting Day - Apollo Bay 🌱

Join us for a community planting day to help revegetate a local property on the Barham River, near Paradise.

Together we’ll plant 300 native trees and shrubs to improve habitat, support biodiversity and strengthen our local environment.

📅 Saturday 10 October 2026
⏰ 10:00am to 1:00pm
📍 Barham River Road, Apollo Bay
🌭 BBQ lunch provided afterwards

What to bring:

✔ Sturdy boots or gumboots
✔ Long-sleeve shirt and long pants
✔ Hat and sunscreen
✔ Gloves
✔ Water bottle

📌 Registration is required by 8 October 2026. Please advise any dietary requirements when registering.

Registration is essential - go to the link in bio or to the comments.

Come along, meet like-minded community members and help make a positive impact on our local environment.

Biodiversity SouthernOtways EnvironmentalVolunteering

08/09/2026

03/09/2026

Counting the days, hours and seconds for this workshop!

📆Sunday 13th September
⏰ 9am – 12pm

Together, we’ll take a closer look at how plant and flower parts are arranged, with a view to understanding features that are important in identification. Participants will be invited to make notes and draw what they see (artistic talent useful but not required).

🌼 About Ian: Author and illustrator of both Name That Flower and Name Those Grasses, Ian Clarke has worked in a range of technical roles, including with the Forests Commission of Victoria and the Botany Department at the University of Melbourne. He was also employed for many years in the plant identification service at the National Herbarium of Victoria.

Come along and see plants in a whole new way!

Please register: Find the event on the Marrar Woorn or SOLN website, use the link in our Instagram bio, or email Nicole at [email protected]

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01/09/2026

Join Otway Bird Observers to learn more about the unfolding H5N1 bird flu situation and what we can do to help.

Presented by BirdLife Australia’s Tanya Loos, this session will cover information about avian influenza, what we can expect to see, what we can do to help and how we can support ourselves and our community through this.

There will be a chance to ask questions at the end.

Tanya will present online but please join us in person at Marrar Woorn to watch together and share a cuppa afterwards.

When: September 2nd, 6.30-7.30pm
Where: Online or at Marrar Woorn (front rooms)
Marrar Woorn Neighborhood House, 6 Pengilley Ave, Apollo Bay.
Online link: https://meet.google.com/oma-gaco-orv

28/08/2026

📅 This coming Thursday!
🕒 10:30am – 1:30pm
📍 Shrub Club Community Nursery, end of Piggery Lane, Apollo Bay

David has been mentoring, teaching, and running workshops for most of his 40+ years as a professional photographer, and is an accredited judge in Australia and overseas.

Now essentially retired and living in Johanna, he focuses on his fine art work, mainly inspired by the natural world. He often creates images he refers to as “Natural Abstractions”, and continues to run workshop retreats along the Great Ocean Road.

At the heart of all David’s teaching are two essential tenets:
One: we can all be creative with the right support.
Two: we learn best when doing something new.

Whatever your equipment, from a phone camera to a DSLR, it’s how you see that makes for an interesting, beautiful, and creative image. By learning to see with new eyes, shifting your self-talk, and by doing (making pictures), then looking at and sharing your images with David’s supportive critique, you’ll learn how to make your images better – for you and for those you share them with.

We look forward to you joining us, wherever you are on your photography journey.

To register, you can:

- Head to the link in our bio
- Find the event on the Marrar Woorn Neighbourhood House page
- Email Nicole at [email protected]

Cooperation between Landcare and Marrar Woorn Neighbourhood House.

27/08/2026