Acknowledgement of Country
Friends of the Box Ironbark Forests would like to acknowledge the Elders of the Dja Dja Wurrung community and their forebears as the Traditional Owners of Country in the Mount Alexander Region. We recognise that the Dja Dja Wurrung people have been custodians of this land for many centuries and have performed age old ceremonies of celebration, initiation and renewal on their land. We acknowledge their living culture and their unique role in the life of this region.
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2015-16 AGM minutes and committee meeting reminder
The minutes from the 2016 minutes which was held on July 11th can be found here. Details from the night can be viewed on our earlier post here. FOBIF committee meetings are held on the second Monday of each month … Continue reading
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Winter School Holiday Program – fun and learning the Dja Dja Wurrung way
Much fun was had listening, cooking, tasting, painting, weaving and playing last week as Aunty Julie McHale lead three great sessions last week for the FOBIF 2016 Winter School Holiday program. An adopted elder of the Dja Dja Wurrung, Aunty Julie skillfully … Continue reading
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Find out about wetland plants
Local environment experts, Damien Cook and Elaine Bayes, are running two wetland plant ID courses this year: This course is aimed at anyone interested in wetland plant identification and ecology. The course will run over 3 days and each day will … Continue reading
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Last chance
Our highly successful FOBIF exhibition, Trees of the Mount Alexander Region, is finally finishing this weekend after a month at TOGS Cafe in Castlemaine in March and almost a month now at the Newstead Railway Arts Hub. So if you … Continue reading
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FOBIF tree show opens in Newstead
On Saturday 4 June, 50 people came out in the cold winter weather to attend the opening of the FOBIF photo show, Trees of the Mount Alexander Shire, at the Newstead Railway Arts Hub. There were lots of positive comments about the diversity and quality … Continue reading
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Reminder: FOBIF photo show opening next Saturday
The opening of our Trees of the Mount Alexander Shire photo show at the Newstead Railway Arts Hub will take place next Saturday (4 June) at 10.30. Bernard Slattery will open the show and Julie Patey from The Hub is bringing along home made … Continue reading
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Funding from Mount Alexander Council for FOBIF School Holiday Program
FOBIF is excited to announce that we have been successful in our Mount Alexander Shire Council Community Grant application which will fund the FOBIF 2016 Winter School Holiday Program. This year has an indigenous peoples theme and we will be … Continue reading
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More photos from May FOBIF walk
Noel Young sent these photos to us after we we had posted our walks article. They provide a terrific record of the walk so we decided to post them in the gallery below. We are not one hundred percent sure of the identification … Continue reading
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FOBIF Tree exhibition moves to Newstead
The FOBIF exhibition, Trees in the Mount Alexander Region, is being held in 2 locations this year, TOGS and the new Newstead Railway Arts Hub. The TOGS show which finished recently was a great success with lots of positive responses and sales … Continue reading
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Beautiful walk on a beautiful day
Sunday’s FOBIF walk started from The Monk car park and was led by Barb Guerin and Lionel Jenkins. The weather was perfect, sunny and warm. Nineteen people came on the walk . We saw and heard about many of the historic … Continue reading


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