Friends of Darebin Parklands

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Friends of Darebin Parklands Award-winning environmental friends’ group, protecting and improving the bushland character of the Darebin Parklands. Join online at www.fdp.org.au.

The Friends of Darebin Parklands (formerly the Darebin Parklands Association) and were instrumental in establishing the Darebin Parklands. Today, the FoDP works with the Darebin Creek Management Committee to protect and improve the bushland character of the park, maintaining it as a wildlife haven and place to appreciate nature. The FoDP offers a wide range of opportunities for the community to learn more and contribute to revegetation of the park. The FoDP helps run planting and weeding days, Clean-up Australia events, information evenings and has a Junior Ranger program which encourages kids and their parents to participate through activities such as wildlife spotlighting and nest box making.

🌿 Crafting Living Landscapes 🌿What if your garden could do more than look good? What if it could restore habitat, suppor...
05/10/2026

🌿 Crafting Living Landscapes 🌿

What if your garden could do more than look good? What if it could restore habitat, support wildlife and help your patch of earth thrive?

Join us to learn from award-winning landscape architect Emmaline Bowman, Founder of STEM Landscape Architecture & Design.

Emmaline is known for turning tired gardens and sites into thriving, biodiverse spaces using native and indigenous plants, water-sensitive design and climate-resilient thinking.

📅 Tuesday 13 October, 7pm
📍 Gleeson Centre, Darebin Parklands, Alphington
🎟️ Free. No booking required, just turn up!

Bring a friend, bring your questions and come away with ideas to help your garden embrace our local ecosystem.

We've had an amazing response to the whittling workshops hosted by Pip Haydon, all workshops are now at capacity! To sig...
05/10/2026

We've had an amazing response to the whittling workshops hosted by Pip Haydon, all workshops are now at capacity!
To sign up to the waitlist please reach out to [email protected] or [email protected]

Wow! We’re so happy with the response to the upcoming Snake Awareness information session. Spots are filled up, if you’d...
05/09/2026

Wow! We’re so happy with the response to the upcoming Snake Awareness information session. Spots are filled up, if you’d like to put your name on the wait list please email: [email protected]

Attend an information session to learn about Snake Awareness.A presentation by Black Snake Productions to provide the in...
31/08/2026

Attend an information session to learn about Snake Awareness.

A presentation by Black Snake Productions to provide the information
you need to understand the behaviour of snakes and how to deal with them effectively.

This is of special interest to families with dogs or small children.

Register for your free ticket
https://events.humanitix.com/snake-awareness-in-darebin-parklands-sep-2026

Park Care Day this Sunday!! Get your boots on and we'll see you in the parklands 🌿✨🦜
13/08/2026

Park Care Day this Sunday!! Get your boots on and we'll see you in the parklands 🌿✨🦜

Thank to everyone who joined Darebin Creek Management Committee rangers and Friends of Darebin Parklands to plant the ne...
22/06/2026

Thank to everyone who joined Darebin Creek Management Committee rangers and Friends of Darebin Parklands to plant the next stage of the Ivanhoe floodplain.

Missed out and want to join the next one? See you 19 of July 1-3pm. We’ll confirm Parklands location closer to.

🍄 The hidden web beneath our feetBeneath Darebin Creek lies a living network most of us never see. Fungi feed the trees,...
21/06/2026

🍄 The hidden web beneath our feet

Beneath Darebin Creek lies a living network most of us never see. Fungi feed the trees, build the soil and quietly hold our local ecosystem together and are central to restoring landscape.

Join us for a free community talk with Ema Corro of MYCOmmunity on the role fungi play in the Darebin Creek ecosystem.

Ema’s research focuses on ecology and integrating fungi into land management.

📅 Sunday 26 July, 1:30 pm

📍 Gleeson Centre, Darebin Parklands

🎟 Free — all welcome

🌿 Stay after the talk to self-explore the Parklands and see what fungi are fruiting on the surface.


friendsofdarebincreek MYCOmmunity Darebin Creek Management Committee

In the last week Waring season has definitely arrived.Waring is the coldest and wettest season, with misty mornings, hig...
14/05/2026

In the last week Waring season has definitely arrived.

Waring is the coldest and wettest season, with misty mornings, high rainfall and low temperatures.

Days are short and nights are long.

Valleys see morning mist and cool, rainy days fill bolin bolin (billabongs).

Courtesy: Wurundjeri seasons City of Whittlesea

🌿 For those who love walking the banks of the dirrabeen/Darebin Creek, there's an exhibition at Ivanhoe Library & Cultur...
08/05/2026

🌿 For those who love walking the banks of the dirrabeen/Darebin Creek, there's an exhibition at Ivanhoe Library & Cultural Hub definitely worth checking out.

This small exhibition reminds us of the multiple histories that are embedded in our landscape.

Undercurrent — Peta Clancy

Undercurrent explores hidden histories of colonisation. Peta Clancy is a descendant of the Bangerang Nation and collaborated with the Dja Dja Wurrung community to explore massacre sites on Dja Dja Wurrung Country in Central Victoria.
Clancy's practice responds to colonial representations of landscape by working with Country rather than treating it as a subject matter. The exhibition also includes works from her birrarung / dirrabeen series and her latest series Sleeping Under the Same Stars.

Early Impressions — Painters from the Heidelberg School (National Collection)

Hanging alongside Clancy's work are celebrated paintings from the Heidelberg School, late 19th-century artists who fell in love with our local landscape and tried to capture it on canvas.
The pairing of the exhibitions reminds us that the Heidelberg School's 'golden light' was a landscape already profoundly shaped by thousands of years of First Nations custodianship and rapidly being transformed by the arrival of Europeans.

📍 Ivanhoe Library & Cultural Hub
🗓️ to 21 June 2026 (closed Mondays)

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