Macedon Ranges Shire Council is excited to be partnering with the Macedon Ranges Sustainability Group to launch a shire-wide, week-long festival of fun, practical, and interactive workshops designed to help you try a new change.  

Maybe you’ve been thinking about how to start a veggie patch? Or keen to learn a few ways to make your grocery shopping go further with zero waste cooking classes? Perhaps you’d like to deep dive into how the neighbours planned for a new energy efficient home? Or maybe you’d like to discover how you can get that old bike running smoothly again? This week-long celebration of solutions can help you get started.  

Changemakers Macedon Ranges will kick-off with the Riddells Creek Enviro-Energy Expo hosting interactive stalls, expert keynote speakers, and panel discussions on Saturday 15 March and will run through to Sunday 23 March. All events are free and family friendly!  

Council’s Director Planning and Environment, Rebecca Stockfeld, commended the Changemakers program, saying: “Changemakers provides a wonderful opportunity for people from all walks of life to come together and learn a new life skill, and work towards making a real change.” 

“Collaboration in our community is what we love to see, and the changes that we make today, can have a profound impact on the generations to follow.” 

Workshops hosted throughout the week will include zero-waste cooking classes (on induction cooktops), edible garden tours, sustainable house tours, bike maintenance for beginners, the launch of both a youth climate group and a backyard biodiversity program, mending and sewing workshops, produce swaps and much more.   

Join us for one workshop, or all of them! More information on the full program will be coming soon and available on the How you can take climate action page

Check out the exciting speakers and stallholders of the Riddells Creek Enviro-Energy Expo at the Macedon Ranges Sustainability Group website.