‘Heart’s desire’: Family of comedian John Clarke make conservation gift to Trust for Nature
Each year I spend over 40 days on work-related trips and have adopted some tips and tricks for travelling.
This is a little off-topic for this blog, but a few people have asked for some travel tips for the Iberian Peninsula, and I’ve enjoyed writing up some of our favourite places to eat.
San Sebastian
We have found there are some good tricks for ordering well in Donostia. We did the pintxos walking tour from the Tourism Bureau on our first day there in 2012; our guide Iñigo was excellent and made us feel at home straight away, teaching us some basic basque phrases and tipping us off to some cultural norms. The link to the tour, and other handy hints, are here: https://www.sansebastianturismo.com/en/eat/going-for-pintxos-miniature-culinary-art. Donostia is the best place in the world to eat, so it’s worth getting a proper induction from Iñigo or his colleagues.
BAR NESTOR, Old Town
Arrandegi Kalea, 11, 20003 Donostia, Spain
Turn up hungry. Everything is bigger than you’d think.
What everyone eats:
- Tomatoes
- Padrón peppers
- Steak by the kilogram, you’ll choose your cut
Continue reading “Iberian Eats”
The following is an excerpt from the Melton & Moorabool Star Weekly
The [Ballan Arboretum Group] will be hosting the Winter and Sprinter talks this Saturday (July 16). What can people expect?
STEPHANIE DAY: The idea of the talks is to discuss trees – their horticultural, social, historic and aesthetic value to our society.
Tree decline creates human health decline.
Just as we depend on each other, we also depend on the land and our environment for our wellbeing.
Anna Foley, advocacy and conservation manager at National Trust of Australia, will discuss the significance of trees and their place in our shared heritage.
A culture that values its trees is extremely sophisticated and trees are an intrinsic part of our spiritual wellbeing.
Full article: Ballan resident Stephanie Day shares her love of trees
Photo by Luke Hemer
Story by Adam Holmes, Bendigo Advertiser, 24 August 2015
Continue reading “Avenue of Honour one step closer to survival | Bendigo Advertiser”
I was honoured to be asked to present on significant trees at this event, and join Dr Greg Moore and Ian Shears on an expert Q&A session on urban tree advocacy.
I talked about the Gallipoli Oaks Project with Jane Edmanson & Darren James on the ‘Big Backyard’ program.
Governor-General plants first Gallipoli Oak at the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.
This was my first contribution to the magazine of the Australian Garden History Society. I wrote about my experiences at the National Trust advocating for heritage ‘without a roof’
Dr Greg Moore (Chair, National Trust Committee for the Register of Significant Trees) and Dr Sue Hughes (my predecessor as Senior Environmental Advocate at the National Trust) have authored a paper about the development of the iPhone app, Trust Trees, which now has over 5000 users across Victoria. The article was published in the Arboricultural Journal, titled ‘The National Trust of Australia (Victoria), Register of Significant Trees: Now protecting community assets and heritage with smartphone technology’. I supplied Greg with some of the user statistics for this paper, and currently maintain the database for this app, arranging regular app updates to include new additions to the Register.
National Trust’s Gallipoli Oaks Project named in The Age’s four highlights of the 2014 Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show.
As the coordinator of the National Trust’s Gallipoli Oaks Project, I taught myself to use WordPress and created a project website to showcase the many resources available to primary schools participating in the program.
Visit the website at gallipolioaks.org
