CERES Community Environment Park
CERES is a non-profit community environment park beside Merri Creek in Brunswick East, Melbourne. It is open every day and is free.
The displays, demonstrations, talks and events show what we can do for the environment on a household, community and global level. CERES wants to make people more aware and take action on the environmental and social issues that affect cities.
In 1981, Council gave money and land to help set up CERES.
Council is still a principal supporting partner of CERES.
What's at CERES?
CERES has:
- Visitors Centre
- site tours Saturday and Sunday morning
- café with organic coffee and food
- nursery that specialises in indigenous plants, food plants and bushfood plants
- organic market every Saturday and Wednesday morning
- 2.5 acre organically certified market garden
- community gardens for local residents
- ecohouse with solar power, greywater and more
- urban orchard of 170 households in Brunswick and Northcote growing their own food
- programs for school visits and a school holiday program
- workshops in cooking, beekeeping, permaculture, feta-cheese making and more
- portable worm farms made from recycled Council bins
- food project that trains Kurdish and Turkish migrants to work in and run their own food business, and
- other projects, groups, festivals and events on the CERES website.
Sustainable Summer @ CERES EcoHouse
Free workshops: November 2009 to February 2010
Sustainable Summer @ CERES Ecohouse is a series of free workshops beginning early November to February 2010.
These workshops will help you reduce your festive carbon footprint, track your household energy use, renovate your house sustainably and connect you with other people in the community.
Places are limited so book your place now at the CERES website.
Where and when?
All Sustainable Summer @ CERES EcoHouse workshops will be held at the CERES EcoHouse, 8 Lee Street, Brunswick East.
Workshops run between November 2009 and February 2010 on Wednesday evenings or Saturdays. Partcipants are encouraged to attend mulitple sessions.
Bookings are essential for all workshops and sessions. Visit the CERES website for sessions, times and dates and to book your place.
Other benefits
As well as access to specific workshops, participants will also get:
- Membership of the Sustainable Summer @ CERES EcoHouse Group Site, a secure online forum for sharing stories, ideas, inspiration and information.
- A simple household self-energy audit program to measure and record household energy usage.
- The opportunity to participate in the Zero Carbon Moreland campaign.
- The chance to meet like-minded people and to help and inspire each other towards sustainability.
- Concession rates to a range of other CERES workshops, short courses and CERES nursery workshops*.
Participants who attend three or more workshop sessions will be eligible for an eco-prize valued at up to $200.
