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Join Australia’s biggest frog count during FrogID Week (12–21 November). Tasmania is home to 11 frog species, three of which are found nowhere else, like this Tasmanian Tree Frog snapped at Olga River. As a Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment (DPIPWE) spokesperson told Journeys, frogs need our help: “Many species of frogs around the world are in decline, with a disease known as chytridiomycosis (a fungal disease) the main cause.” By downloading the free FrogID app and recording frog calls you’ll help scientists gather vital data on frog health and distribution.

P For more, see frogid.net.au

P Help DPIPWE by reporting sick or dead frogs. Call naturalvaluesconservation.enquiries@dpipwe.tas.gov.au 03 6165 4305 or email

YOUR NEW TO-DO LIST

21 November IN FULL BLOOM

See Woolmers Estate at its most glorious during the Festival of Roses. The Rose Garden of this heritage 19th-century estate is planted with thousands of roses of all shapes and hues. Even if you can’t make the festival, visit when the blooms are best, in late spring and early summer.

In cinemas from 25 November MEMBER GIVEAWAY

This year, Tom Hardy returns as Venom, one of Marvel’s greatest characters. Directed by Andy Serkis, Venom 2 also stars Michelle Williams, Naomie Harris and Woody Harrelson. In cinemas only from 25 November. Keep an eye out for ticket giveaways in your member emails soon! 5-7 NOVEMBER POP THE CORK

All event details are up to date at time of print, but can change.* For updates, consult organisers directly, and support Tassie’s events industry through these challenging times.

Effervescence Tasmania celebrates Tassie’s answer to the Champagne region – the Tamar Valley. Visit some of the region’s best cellar doors during a program full of sparkling degustation dinners, tastings, masterclasses and even live comedy. See effervescencetasmania.com

From November COLOUR ON KUNANYI

From November into December, the Tasmanian waratah unfurls in the state’s alpine woodlands. Along with forests around Hartz Mountain, Cradle Mountain and Mount Field, these endemic flowers are best spotted on the Organ Pipes track on kunanyi/Mt Wellington – an ideal excuse to revisit one of Tasmania’s most scenic short walks. 26–28 November FARM FRESH

Welcome the warmer weather during the annual Farmgate Festival. For one weekend, small farms, boutique producers and vineyards all around the Tamar Valley open their doors to offer gourmet produce and host behind-the-scenes tours, picnics, communal lunches, cooking workshops and more.

Want to tell us about your event or product? Reach us on journeys@ ract.com.au

Made in Tas

Mask up in true Tassie fashion thanks to gift shop Lily & Dot. Featuring original illustrations by local artist John Fibbens, the triple-layer reusable masks come in playful patterns such as the Tasmanian tiger and Tasmanian devil designs. Find in-store at 150 Elizabeth St, Hobart or ship anywhere in Australia (with free gift-wrapping thrown in). Visit lily-and-dot.myshopify.com

Cultural closings and openings

Since Journeys August–September went to print, the Makers’ Workshop (as seen in The pit stop, p. 39) has sadly been forced to close its doors due to the dropoff in tourism visitation caused by the pandemic. But as one stage comes to an end for the Burnie cultural hub, the University of Tasmania is busy planning its renewal as a dynamic community asset – stay tuned. In Hobart, The Hedberg is a new cultural and performing arts precinct with global aspirations, designed by local firm LIMINAL Architecture (which was also behind the Freycinet Coastal Pavilions). The development incorporates the Theatre Royal, Australia’s oldest working theatre, and new creative spaces for the University of Tasmania. With the arts doing it tough lately, your local artistic hubs need your support.

Spring reading

Principles of Style

Styling and hosting guru Sarah Andrews shares the design insights that she applied to Captain’s Rest – one of Tassie’s most iconic shack stays.

Soil

Matthew Evans of Fat Pig Farm celebrates one of our most precious resources – soil – and reminds us to look closer at what’s beneath our feet.

Tiny Possum and the Migrating Moths

Hobart artist Ben Clifford is behind the beautiful illustrations that bring this tale of the critically endangered mountain pygmypossum to life.

WHAT’S BLOOMING?

with SADIE CHRESTMAN from Fat Pig Farm The winter veg have bolted and the garden is filled with flowers: yellow broccoli and swede blooms, delicate white striped rocket, large white carrot umbels and leek pom poms. It’s also filled with insects. Mainly European honey bees, but also tiny pollinating flies, strange blue wasps that look like giant ants, hover flies whose larvae gobble up aphids and, hidden in the herb patch, native bees out of hibernation. At Fat Pig Farm, we aim to have a rich diversity of flowers and insects keeping each other in balance. The summer vegetables are ready to go in after the last frost (Huon Show day for us). Lots of tomatoes and zucchini, plus eggplants, cucumbers and melons for the greenhouse. Melons! Now there’s a treat. We cosset our cold-climate rockmelons (there are never many), checking each leaf for pests, side dressing with compost and applying fortnightly seaweed and comfrey foliar sprays. Some years they’re hard and bland. And some they are worth every loving minute, as we sink our teeth into fruit that is rich, soft, fragrant and chin-dribblingly juicy.

Sow now tomatoes, zucchini, cucumber

Harvest now snow and snap peas, broad beans

JOSIE RESHAPES HER LIFE

Do you remember your New Year’s resolution? At this time of the year most of us don’t, however, if you did make one it was likely related to losing weight, becoming fitter or making a positive lifestyle change.

When Josie started at Personal Best she was struggling with her health – she was unable to exercise and had back, neck and shoulder pain that had put her in hospital on a number of occasions.

Josie wanted to overcome the chronic fatigue that she had experienced for the past five years and get back to the active lifestyle she had enjoyed in her 20s and 30s. “Like most people I was aware of the benefits of improving my fitness and I knew that I needed to learn how to move correctly again, as with every ‘comeback’ I would hurt my body in some way when I tried to do it myself,” she says. “I did not want to be steered into a mainstream, generic exercise program but rather one that was individual, specific and tailored to all of my needs.”

Feeling like life was passing her by, Josie decided that she needed the commitment that a personal trainer provides and wanted to work with someone that understood her needs, who could help her manage her back pain and who was very patient and encouraging.

For Josie, having the support from her personal trainer Fran has been the key factor in improving her strength, posture and energy levels. This in turn built her confidence and allowed Josie to get back to being in control of her body, rather than her body dictating to her what she could and couldn’t do.

“Fran educated me on why and how, rather than just telling me what to do. She has this remarkable ability to know exactly what my body needs,” Josie says.

“I went from being extremely frustrated with being unwell and lacking in energy, to going bushwalking and doing field work for my business. I am now planning a multiple-day bushwalking trip, something that I could never have imagined doing a year ago. Being active also helps me manage the stress of running a business with a team of 20.”

Josie’s back pain would keep her awake at night, now she enjoys pain-free sleep without medication and no longer feels she ‘misses out’ on life, as she can still do much of what she did in her 30s.

“It’s been a life-changing experience to build my body and energy levels and, after six years of putting my life on hold, I can now do all the things that I enjoy.”

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