Over 200 Hills landholders picked up free native tree seedlings last week at the Reveg Festival in Woodside, presented by the Hills and Fleurieu Landscape Board. It’s the third year the board has offered a plant giveaway, with nearly 20,000 plants given to the community this year. Reveg Festival aims to help heal and revegetate the Cudlee Creek fire scar by encouraging and supporting private landholders to replant paddock trees and important creekline habitats burnt in the 2019/20 fire. 

Veteran Mt Pleasant Farmers Market co-manager, Terese Stephens is finishing up at the Farmers Market after almost eleven years. Terese was employed prior to the market’s official opening back in 2011. 

By Kendrea Rhodes

The natural environment is important to Adelaide Hills communities; it shapes what we do, what we eat, where we go, who we meet, and often why. After the Cudlee Creek bushfires in 2019, the collective grief of the communities within the fire scar affected each and every aspect that makes the Adelaide Hills special. Amongst the heartache however, there are activities and initiatives generating positivity and providing opportunities to reflect on what makes the Adelaide Hills a wonderful place to call home.

Two Afghanistan war veterans are walking 1200km along the Heysen Trail in South Australia to raise money for veteran charity, Soldier On.

Top of The Torrens Gallery at Birdwood opened a new exhibition on Sunday which will conclude on July 3rd, 2022. This new exhibition was opened by John Ragless, Top of the Torrens Gallery Chairperson. John explained how this exhibit focuses on photography and clayworks/pottery. 

Kersbrook Soldiers Memorial Park and oval is a hub of community activity, which includes the Northern Hills Pony Club, the Men’s Shed, Tennis and Netball Clubs, a playground, walking tracks, and of course, the oval and football club! On any day you can find walkers, dog lovers and families enjoying the 12 ha parks and using the facilities. Kersbrook Parks is community owned and run. 

Most communities have memorials to commemorate those who fought in World War One. Many also have memorials, and sometimes buildings to commemorated World War Two. The communities of Forest Range and Lenswood share a World War One Memorial and a World War Two Memorial.