Dear {usertag:name}

Welcome Johanna Hood Johanna says: My aim is to utilise my backyard for veges and to become better informed about alternative energy sources and water.

Most interested to read also that you have been part of a choir. It feels like song and music are something really good to happen more and more locally here that the more of us who can join in the better.

Johanna has nominated the food & gardening transport environment education water The Heart The Hands and towards zero waste sub-groups.

Johanna you might like to join in the Clean Up Australia Day activities at Leslie Patrick Park site which Transition The Grove is supporting. Some of us will be there with gloves and hat and good footwear on to go and collect rubbish. Last year was great fun and well worthwhile. Hope it should be good this year. It is best if you register with the Clean Up Australia Day website although you can just turn up. Transition The Grove will have morning tea afterwards for members who participate.

There is an Energy Sub-group meeting next Thursday evening (2nd February) at 7pm at the Resource Centre at Ferny Grove State High School which you are welcome to come along to.

There is a Northern Catchment Groups evening at Downfall Creek coming up with a guest speaker about Brisbane frogs. These evenings are always most interesting and an opportunity to meet and network with people over a good supper beforehand. This one could possibly result in some frog hunting/watching too.

The Hills District Community Garden Group which is the local channel for community gardens here is currently working on getting two projects up and running: a garden at the Patricks Rd State Preschool site and getting land for a community garden in the park off Upper Kedron Rd by the creek. The contact for that is Jo Barkworth who is also a Transition The Grove member.

You can go onto the Groups tab on the website and that will enable you to contact any of the members in the subgroups you are part of.

Or turn up for activities that we send notifications through about.

Or better still be part of organising some for others. The Transition The Grove website gives you tools to communicate with other members and you can literally just use them to start things you think would be good to have happening or ask for support for what you need.

Hope to meet you soon

Anne Tennock
Subgroup Organiser