Sustainable Macleod sustainable gift ideas
Here’s a list of suggestions by members, for a very happy, sustainable Christmas!
Vouchers for
- Sustainable Macleod membership or workshops – purchase here
- Bush Heritage Trust Bush giftcards
- other memberships
- local restaurants – help them after covid!
- experiences
- online workshops
- plays from the Australian Shakespeare Co. at the Botanical Gardens including Wind in the Willows and Tinkerbell and the Dream Fairies
- Heidelberg Theatre Company season tickets
- from ‘you’ for babysitting, gardening, etc
- movies
Donations for
- offsetting carbon – see ecologi.com and withoneseed.org.au/computer-emissions-fund/
- supporting indigenous Australian heritage chuffed.org/project/djab-wurrung-protectors-fund
- Oxfam Unwrapped
Items suggested by members on Facebook
- Mikoto: reusable, washable pleated face masks. Contact Mikoto: 0421 654 934 mikotoaraki@gmail.com
- Rebecca’h Pescarini -Walker: wellness cookbook available in both digital format or print edition ‘Eat Well Live Well – Organic Plant Based Wholefoods‘
- Suzanna Zhang: magnesium bath salts infused with essential oils & bath accessories. Blends come in glass jars that are reusable and can be repurposed
- Brigid Conte: tan leather key rings, bookmarks and other small items that make great plastic-free gifts
- Jasmine Olfain: sustainable products and garments from upcycled fabrics and blankets see @bearfootcubs on Facebook and Instagram
- Katrina Naish: items from reclaimed fabric, painting kits are a favourite
- Fiona Morrison: online cooking workshops and holiday workshops for children – teaching healthy and sustainable cooking and eating from scratch
- paletas: Mexican icy poles – a frozen fruit treat! family business & made locally in Diamond Creek
- sustainable pegs – save Asian forests by eliminating wooden pegs; also great for arthritic fingers (see photo)
- items: food, produce, gardening, chooks, art and kids’ stuff
- anything from our local shops
- books from op shops
- mushroom growing kits – buy shiitake and oyster mushroom kits through Sustainable Macleod for 1/2 price ($15)
- loose tea (including decaffeinated) and teapot or spices, salts and herbs
- olive oil products from Hildebrand Grove
- homemade food or other items
- Mad Millie for all sorts of preserving equipment and food making kits
- kokedamas, terrariums, seeds, plants or homegrown produce
- plastic-free shampoo and conditioner bars
- carpentry tools or garden tools i.e. secateurs and pruners
- paper pot maker or artists supplies
- a wicking gardening bed from Bulleen Art and Garden
- locally sustainably made baby and children’s goods
- reuseable drink bottle or coffee cup
- chooks