What's on at CERES
Find events, community festivals and seasonal celebrations happening at CERES.
Please note: CERES has multiple locations along the Merri Merri Creek.
Sat 13th Sep, 10am - 12pm
As we welcome the return of spring, join us for a calming, nature based workshop to reconnect with nature and align with the rhythms of the season.
The themes of the Spring Equinox: Balance, Rebirth, Alignment, and Sowing Seeds (both physical and spiritual).
Come take a slow intentional walk through CERES gardens, honour the changing earth, and plant the seeds of your next chapter.
Location: Brunswick East
Saturdays from 27 Sep
Join us at CERES Joe’s Market Garden in Coburg for a unique experience picking your own flowers at Melbourne’s oldest continuing market garden.
Pick the perfect bouquet of Spring blooms which may include poppies, sweet pea, ranunculus and anemones.
Location: Coburg
Mon 29th Sep - Fri 3rd Oct
Get your little one out exploring nature. Come for a single day or all five of our Nature Play sessions these school holidays.
Day 1 – Growing a Garden 🌱
Day 2 – Nature Crafts 🌻
Day 3 – Forest Kids – Bush Tools & Shelters ᨒ
Day 4 – Wetland Wonders 𓆏
Day 5 – Flowers, Bees & Trees 🌸
Suitable for: 2-5YOs
Location: Brunswick East
Sat 4th Oct, 10:30am
You’ve heard of Speed Dating, but have you heard of Weed Dating?
Log off the apps and pick up the gardening tools this Spring at Joe’s Market Garden in Coburg. Daters get their hands dirty on the picturesque urban farm while getting to know each other through facilitated conversations and activities.
Location: Coburg
Sat 11th & 25th Oct, 1st Nov
Broad beans have been growing at Joe’s every season for 80 years.
Take a walk along the rows and pick the freshest, sweetest broad beans you can find.
Location: Coburg
Mon or Wed, starting Oct 13
A program designed to connect kids with nature, explore independently, discover the wonders of our natural world and participate in caring for our environment.
The activities change with the seasons but could include things like: bush cubby building, art with natural objects, meeting worms, netting for water bugs and more.
Suitable for: 2-5YOs
Location: Brunswick East
Tues 14th Oct - Dec 9th, 3pm - 6pm
Being a young person can be tricky. 18-25 and feeling a bit blergh?
Join our free ‘Growing Together’ program – connect with other young people through food in CERES farms & kitchens, learn new skills and get involved in your local community food system.
This program is for people who are currently feeling disconnected and may be disengaged from work or education
Location: Brunswick East
Sat 18th October, 10am-1pm
Join us for a community celebration of the humble broad bean (fava) and the spring harvest at CERES Joe’s Market Garden in Coburg as we mark 80 years since Joe Garita first planted beans on the farm.
A day of celebration including music, cooking demonstrations, farm tours, pick-your-own beans, garden workshops and activities for adults and kids alike.
Tickets are free but limited.
Location: Coburg
Sat 25th Oct, 10am - 2pm
The beauty and the uniqueness of the Merri Creek is a testament to the thousands of volunteers who have brought the creek back from pollution, weed infestation and neglect.
Share what you love about the creek, your vision for how it could be, and help shape priorities for its future at this collaborative session.
Location: Brunswick East
Sat 8th Nov, 10:30am
You’ve heard of Speed Dating, but have you heard of Weed Dating?
Log off the apps and pick up the gardening tools this Spring at Joe’s Market Garden in Coburg. Daters get their hands dirty on the picturesque urban farm while getting to know each other through facilitated conversations and activities.
This session is specifically for people in their 20s and 30s.
Location: Coburg
Saturdays from 8th Nov
Design your own hand-tied bouquet with flowers you harvest with us on the farm.
Learn from Thanisa a flower farmer about flower care and bouquet wrapping.
Location: Coburg
Jan - April
Join us at CERES Joe’s Market Garden in Coburg for a unique experience harvesting your own flowers at Melbourne’s oldest continuing market garden.
Pick the perfect bouquet of Spring blooms which may include cosmos, sunflowers, dahlias and zinnias.
Location: Coburg
Jan - April
Join us at CERES Joe’s Market Garden in Coburg for a unique experience harvesting your own flowers at Melbourne’s oldest continuing market garden.
Pick the perfect bouquet of Spring blooms which may include cosmos, sunflowers, dahlias and zinnias.
Location: Coburg
CERES SCHOOL OF NATURE
Workshops & COURSES
Keep learning with our one-day workshops or long term courses. Get in the garden, kitchen, workshop, bush and beyond today.
WEEKLY AT CERES
Saturdays 9am-1pm
Farm-fresh veg and live jazz.
Edna Grove, Coburg.
