Projects

Healesville High School year 8 Art Students have almost completed an Earthbag ‘Home of the World’- the first of a series of cubbies that will be constructed funded by a small grant from The Andrews Foundation. 

Mt Lilydale Mercy College Students building a sculpture of Bunjil the creator as part of our reconciliation event.

ECOSS were lucky enough to recieve an Australian Government Indigenous Languages and Arts Grant in 2019. This grant enabled a very special Cultural Audit with HICSA (Healesville Indigenous Community Services Association).

Reconciliation Fire Pit Together with the local First Nations kids from EACH, we have created a space to prompt conversation about reconciliation.  This space will be a fire pit area, that can be used by school groups, or any groups of people to consider what reconciliation means to them. It’s an acknowledgement space

Native Bee Wall We are committed to looking after our Native Bee’s here at ECOSS.  Wesley Mission clients are attending ECOSS every Monday, and their project is to build a Native Bee Wall similar to the above images.  Wesley friends are also working in the community garden.

ECOSS working with Cire Community School year 9 students to progress Earth Building Demonstration Walls.

Cire Service year 9 students have built a functional biofiltration system here at ECOSS.  This was funded by Melbourne Water’s Rural Land Program, and some plants donated by Australian Ecosystems.

Three year 7 students from Cire Services will be looking after the ECOSS frog bog one day per week, and joining in on the Frog Census!

ECOSS hosted a Bushfire Safe Building workshop and tour facilitated by Tom Neil in collaboration with local CFA. This involved a presentation at ECOSS on Bushfire Safe building considerations and tours of homes in Warburton built to withstand bushfires. 

Dr Annie Yoffa was a world traveller, surgeon, psychiatrist, philosopher, published writer and student of Freud. She was also the first woman to hike the Warburton to Walhalla trail, across the Victorian Baw Baw Ranges, unaccompanied in 1929. She dedicated her life to the study of nature and was struck by lightning, in Mount Martha, while conducting research in the field of psychodynamics.