Foresthaven in Maclean, New South Wales | Community organisation

Foresthaven

Locality: Maclean, New South Wales

Phone: +61 2 6645 3013

Address: Hoschkes Ln 2463 Maclean, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.friendsofforesthaven.wordpress.com

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24.01.2022 ** DEEP ECOLOGY & COUNCIL OF ALL BEINGS WORKSHOP ** 10 / 11 April @ Foresthaven, Maclean, Yaegl Country A deep immersive experience for people aged 14+ exploring regenerative culture. Plug into this amazing planet’s vibrant self-healing. Connect through nature meditations and other activities in our little patch of rainforest right here in Maclean. Learn how to have a wilderness experience in your own backyard! ... Day 1 leads into (and is necessary preparation for) the powerful ceremony of The Council of All Beings on Day 2. Price: Just the Saturday $60 The Full Weekend: $100 Facilitated by Anja Light, Mike Lowe, Eshana Bragg & Pete Cuming (experienced deep ecology facilitators) Bookings essential .. book now as places are limited! <3 www.trybooking.com/BOCZA Part of the PLUNGE festival brought to the Clarence Valley by Clarence Valley Culture

23.01.2022 Roslyn Woodward has tirelessly volunteered over many years protecting nature in the Valley and beyond. She has lost everything she owns in a brutal house fire.

23.01.2022 I mean, seriously, don"t miss it!!!

23.01.2022 Friends of Foresthaven working bee this Sunday 23rd Feb. Planting some bush foods in the gully and swimming in the fresh flowing waterhole and a picnic lunch. . Come and experience Foresthaven in all its rainforest, creek flowing, waterfall gurgling glory! . Arrive by 10.30am for planting.... . BYO water bottle, hat, mozzie repellant and long sleeves and pants, covered shoes, swimmers, and picnic lunch. See more

22.01.2022 FROGS! Foresthaven is full of them ... so much so, we sometimes call it "Froghaven" as their calls are so loud and almost overwhelming sometimes! It's an amazing experience to wander around the waterhole at night, hearing the calls at different levels ... the trilling and croaking treefrogs up in the epiphytes, the "wok woks" and "tok"s down on the ground. The sound of a healthy ecosystem, and such a relief after the long and intense drought to hear them in such force as t...he creeks, gullies and waterfalls flow. We love our frogs!

21.01.2022 Exciting news ... we have been awarded a government grant for Increasing Resilience to Climate Change! Heading into high schools in Northern NSW with Joyality: Empowering Conscious Changemakers workshops! Thrilled to be partnering with the immensely talented Byron Youth Theatre in this adventure of expression and empowerment. #howonearth #climateresilience #joyality #ecoanxiety #ecopsychology ... https://www.echo.net.au//byron-youth-theatre-how-on-earth/

20.01.2022 Annual autumn haircut of lemon verbena, hanging on the verandah to dry. Ah smells soooo good.

18.01.2022 To highlight the importance of biodiversity in the Clarence Valley and work towards protecting and preserving threatened species.

17.01.2022 A great morning planting out the bush food gully at Foresthaven, and a delicious feast for lunch! Soenke, Tess, Gail, Mike, Eshana and Peter. Yay team!

14.01.2022 Why the old forests are so very important.

12.01.2022 This is our favourite regenerative festival in the whole world! And it's just up the road in Mullumbimby. . RENEW fest has just reached 2/3 pledges needed to go ahead this year. Buy your super discounted early bird ticket before this Monday 17th Feb! https://www.pozible.com/pr/bringing-renew-fest-2020-to-life . And see you there!

12.01.2022 This time last week another "mini tornado" ripped through our hidden valley at Foresthaven. Sky went black, then the air went white with water and wind, trees s...haking wildly, branches flying horizontally through the air, thunder and lightning crashing all around. Home alone, trying to shut windows against the cyclonic forces. When the coast was clear, digging trenches and walls of sand to prevent flooding downstairs. Pretty terrifying and quite bizarre as it disrupted my writing a grant application for climate change resilience training!! The aftermath: 13 big trees down, including 6 in "the common". Several trees very narrowly missed the 3 houses ... we were blessed this time, so no endless hours on the phone to insurance companies. Pete and I have been working this week to clean up what we can. Pete chainsawing, me dragging. Pretty exhausting, after all the dramas preparing for approaching bushfires this summer. . So, we are facing a huge clean up that will cost thousands of dollars and many many hours. And, we are lucky ... none of us hurt. No roofs ripped away (unlike the school down the road). And the bush food gully planted last weekend remains unscathed despite a huge native pine falling right through the middle of it! . Any offers of assistance gratefully received. For example please join Friends of Foresthaven Inc! http://goo.gl/forms/1zGA0KMPno . #resilience #thisisclimatechange #gratitude #thenewnormal

12.01.2022 Hmmm food for thought ...

12.01.2022 This poem just blows my mind. Simply amazing. Are you familiar with it? Earth, isn't this what you want? To arise in us, invisible? Is it not your dream, to en...ter us so wholly there's nothing left outside us to see? What, if not transformation, is your deepest purpose? Earth, my love, I want it too. Believe me, no more of your springtimes are needed to win me overeven one flower is more than enough. Before I was named I belonged to you. I see no other law but yours, and know I can trust the death you will bring. See, I live. On what? Childhood and future are equally present. Sheer abundance of being floods my heart. --Rilke

06.01.2022 So excited about this citizens science initiative and getting out there frogging! It's easy to download the app and start recording

04.01.2022 Applications to participate in this FREE training close tonight at midnight... so if you know a young person keen to make the world a better place, please encourage them to click on this link NOW and apply to join this awesome group of humans! www.rebrand.ly/youthform Places in the in-person stream are almost full (Tuesday nights), but there are plenty available on the online stream (Thursday nights). (Plus full day in person workshop for everyone in school hols.)... *It's FREE because it's supported by a NSW government grant: Increasing Resilience to Climate Change. Normally would cost over $400 per person for Joyality: Empowering Conscious Changemakers to deliver. For course info: www.joyality.org/s/YouthLeaderTrainingClimateResilienceCour (Joyality is a project of our non profit Friends of Foresthaven Inc.)

03.01.2022 Amazing photo of the Tawny Frogmouth. Because Australia refuses to have any normal animals, owls included.

02.01.2022 NSW forests, and their precious inhabitants, under increasing threat

02.01.2022 KIDS & CLIMATE CHANGE. If you are a parent, carer or educator of young people, please spend 5-10 minutes on this survey?

02.01.2022 ** FIREBRAND: A LOVE LETTER TO MACLEAN ** From 7.30 tonight, a series of stories of place, including Peter Matheson Maclean / Yaegl Country: a love letter to a town where rural resilience is echoed through bushfire, familial inspiration and shared history. I remember walking through the bush when I was a kid and wondering whether those beings I read about in books were real. Trolls, elves, faerie, giants and dwarves. Probably not. But as I grew I knew I felt comfortable in... some of the places I spent time in, and in others I was more than happy to move on. I stayed longer in places that spoke to me, that invited me, healed me, that I felt for Nearly twenty years here. That’s a record for me. Meet Peter Matheson Maclean NSW / Yaegl Country