Newly up and running!!
Bello Food Box
Bellofoodbox is built on the passion and commitment of the local community. Our delicious, seasonal produce comes from local farmers living within a 200km radius of Bellingen, packed into boxes, and collected by our members.
WE ARE NOW READY TO OPEN UP ORDERING TO ALL OF THE COMMUNITY! YAY! If you are wanting to order a food box ($30 or $50), please order online at www.bellofoodbox.org.au
See on facebook too.
Bellingen Energy Festival
The Bellingen Energy Festival is an annual event, showcasing environmental innovation and information. The program includes key-note speakers, workshops, kids activities, and live music - all around the theme of sustainability. Community groups and local businesses demonstrate all the ideas, products and services that can help reduce our carbon footprint and lead to a better future.
Phone: 0467 551 011 (Paul Nebauer)
Email: paulnebauer1@westnet.com.au
Web: www.energyfestival.org
Bellingen Environment Centre Committee
Do you feel overwhelmed by the constant messages about the destruction of our planet? You can make a difference.
The BEC committee works together to protect the natural environment, conserve biodiversity and promote proactive responses to climate change. We come together to review local and global issues that affect the environment. We formulate campaigns that raise public awareness and lobby at all levels of government. A campaign may consist of hosting an event, letter writing, media campaigning, conducting research, taking legal action or completing community surveys. We interlink with other environmental groups and educators. If you are passionate about protecting our planet, the BEC committee would love to have you onboard.
Phone: 6655 9199 (Caroline Joseph)
Email: bellingenenvironmentcentre@gmail.com
Web: www.bellingenenvironmentcentre@gmail.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/Bellingen-Environment-Centre/184105131611141
Meetings: 2nd Tues of the month, 12.00 - 1.30pm, BEC loft
Visit Us: Most Tuesdays,10.00am - 3.00pm, BEC loft
Bellingen Environmental Youth Experience (EYE)
Do you want to help save our planet?
Do you want to have fun?
Do you want to learn new skills like making fire with no matches, building bush shelters, and finding bush tucker? or being a camp leader, running an environmental campaign, and working in a group?
Do you want to become a youth leader and have a voice in our community?
Do you want to make a difference?
Bellingen EYE is a group of inspired youth from the Bellingen Shire who have a passion for the environment and want to conserve its beauty, locally and abroad. We provide adventurous and enlightening nature and leadership camps for local high school aged youth. We also carry out projects and environmental campaigns, and take part in environmental happenings in our community. We aim to strengthen the connections between youth and our environment, while empowering youth to create a stronger voice within our community.
Meetings: Every Wed 5.00pm - 7.30pm, BEC loft
Phone: 0423 362 844 (Lisa Siegel)
Email: info@bellingeneye.com
Web: www.bellingeneye.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bellingeneye
Bellingen Seeds Savers
Seeds for the future - sow some, save some, share some
The seeds of Bellingen Seed Savers were sown at a Transition Bellingen/Local Food Network Cafe ‘Sowing Seeds for the Future’ in September 2008. These seeds germinated and continue to show vigorous growth. We have grown from five people to an average of 15-20 attending Gatherings and a mailing list of approx. 120. We gather on the first Thursday afternoon of the month, in a variety of venues, for discussions and sharing of seeds and plant materials, visits to gardens and practical workshops. Our gardens and experience are very diverse but we all share a keen desire to learn more about sowing, growing, harvesting, cleaning and storing open-pollinated, non-hybrid seeds. Our aim is to to ensure a reliable source of delicious, nutritious local food into the future – whatever it brings. We seek seeds and plants that will grow well in the Bellingen area (20km south and inland of Coffs Harbour on the Mid North Coast of NSW), whether they have been handed down through generations of local growers or have been brought in from elsewhere and adapted to our conditions. This area has a range of microclimates, with variations in planting and harvesting times. We welcome anyone who shares our aims and enthusiasm.
Phone: 02 6655 9090 (Irene Wallin)
Email: treeferns@westnet.com.au
Web: www.bellingenseedsaversunderground.blogspot.com/
Bellingen Shire Council Sustainability & Natural Resources Newsletter
To subscribe, email sustainability@bellingen.nsw.gov.au
Bellingen Urban Landcare
Bellingen Urban Landcare started work on our first site in 1995 on the banks of the creek that runs through Bellingen Park (where the monthly markets are held). Since then we’ve targeted nine more sites…all of which we continue to maintain. We plant local species of grasses, shrubs and trees after first tagging and protecting any native seedlings and removing invasive weeds. We then continue to work intensively at each new site until a canopy is sufficiently established to protect smaller plants and to provide the shade that keeps the weeds at bay. This may take three to five years. Until recently we avoided the use of herbicides, but with the dangers posed by weeds such as Madeira Vine, we currently have a restricted policy of herbicide use for selected weed species. These herbicides are not used at working bees.
Phone: 0438 060 576 (Carmen Muldoon)
Web: www.bellingenurbanlandcare.org.au
Bellinger Landcare
Bellinger Landcare Incorporated is a community-based not-for-profit organisation supporting community initiatives and involvement in natural resource management in Bellingen Shire and beyond.
Phone: 02 6655 9588 (Colin Matthews)
Web: www.bellingerlandcare.org.au
BLESS
BLESS is a local exchange trading system (LETS) that is helping Bellingen transition to a more sustainable and resilient future. You can trade goods and services for BLESS-ings instead of dollars! BLESS fosters social justice and equality, strengthens our community and helps to keep our abundance flourishing locally.
Phone: 0422 141 755 (Megan Bliss)
Email: bles@community-exchange.org
Web: www.community-exchange.org
Dorrigo Bellingen Urunga Bike Users Group (DUBBUG)
The group has been operating for 6 years and we have grown from strength to strength in that time. On the local scene we ride all around the Bellingen, Dorrigo and Urunga areas, not only on local roads but in the State Forest and National Parks
Phone: 0429 949 322 / 02 6652 7464 (George Hudson)
Email: george1h@bigpond.com
Web: www.bellingen.com/bug
Dorrigo Environment Watch
Concerned about the threat of antimony mining on the lovely Dorrigo Plateau? So are we at DEW (Dorrigo Environment Watch).
Formed in 2010, we are a group of environmentally conscious residents, living on the Plateau, who desire to see the Plateau stay as pollution free as possible. We welcome interested parties either to our meetings or to be included in our ‘Interested Parties List’ if you wish to be kept informed of any information we circulate.
Meetings: 2nd Thursday of the month
Email: deanefamily@hotmail.com (Trevor); jackydorrigo2@bigpond.com (Jacky); amargiwolf@yahoo.com.au (Amargi)
EcoBello
EcoBello is a loosely affiliated network of groups working towards sustainability in the Bellingen Shire, which is located on the beautiful Mid North Coast of New South Wales, Australia. The EcoBello network meets quarterly with the goals of information sharing, networking, and collective campaigning when necessary.
Meetings: 3 times per year, advised via email. To subscribe to the mailing list, email transitionbellingen@gmail.com.
ecofaith bellingen
We gather to connect directly with God, and God’s ever evolving creation. We are a predominantly Christian community which celebrates God’s presence and work in all people, including humans. All humans of good will are welcome to join us in exploring the connection between Earth (the ecos)- and faith, or spirituality.
Kids welcome, bring a snack to share afterwards if you like. Bring old clothes and sturdy shoes if you want to go exploring on the 12ha of rainforest afterwards. An initiative of the Uniting Church ecoministry.
Gatherings: now on an ad hoc basis, see website or call Jason. Next planned gathering is at the energy festival.
Phone: 6655 1050 / 0433 216 073 (Rev Dr Jason John, Minister)
Email: Jason@ecofaith.org
Web: http://ecofaith.org/mnc/community/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=289643833856
Mid North Coast Greens
We believe in:
• The need for a sustainable use of the Earth’s finite resources;
• An urgent need to reduce our carbon footprint and to prevent further climate change; and,
• Social justice.
Contribute to our campaigns and make a difference.
Meetings: Usually 2nd Monday of the month, BEC loft
Email: secretary@mncg.nsw.greens.org.au
Web: www.midnorthcoast.nsw.greens.org.au/
Contact also available through: PO Box 508, Bellingen, 2454 / 02 9045 6999 / www.nsw.greens.org.au
Northbank Community Garden
Northbank Community Garden is located at 100 Northbank Rd. Bellingen. Welcome to the garden! This is a place for community, the arts and food! We encourage sustainability, reusing and recycling and local food production. Established in 2008, the garden is an organic non-profit grass-roots venture. It features a large area designated as communal beds, a market garden (the profits of which help to sustain the garden), a chook run, greenhouse, cacti collection and a communal gathering space with kitchen. The gardeners recently planted about 30 citrus and olive trees, with several other food trees growing aswell. The next projects for the gardeners include further irrigation, camping grounds, the instalation of a teepee/childrens space and a sculpture competition. Visitors to the garden are asked to be respectful and gentle. The garden sustains itself by hard work and the generosity and honesty of the community. Contributions are made in the form of donations, materials or by working in the garden.
Web: www.northbankgarden.org
Facebook: www.facebook.com/Northbank.Community.Garden
Transition Bellingen
Transition Bellingen is a part of a global transition network that aims to build resilience so local communities can survive, and even thrive, in the face of global challenges like Peak Oil and Climate Change. In 2010, we focussed on awareness raising about these issues and invited our community to reflect with us on how Bellingen could be even better than it already is and to develop vision ideas of a better, more resilient Bello - whatever the future brings. We recognise that all transition initiatives are experimental: we are learning by doing. We like these words by a Spanish poet: “Traveller, there is no road. We make the road by walking”. We welcome fellow travellers to use the menu on the left to navigate a path through the activities and events of Transition Bellingen.
Meetings: The hub meets Tuesdays as required, 7.00pm - 9.00pm, BEC loft
Email: transitionbellingen@gmail.com
Web: http://www.transitionbellingen.org
