What's on in Warburton Valley? Use our 2017 events guide, plan ahead, mark your diary!

Phone 03 5966 2411

To help you plan ahead for your weekend Warburton market fix :) Note most markets not running in January.

We call this corner 'Ralph Ballard's Community Wrap'- Ralph is an active networker and supporter of local community events. We'll post updates from Ralph here

Amnesty International Upper Yarra Group has changed its meeting day and venue. We are now meeting on the last Saturday of the month at 10am at the Community Space behind the shops in Warburton. Please call Sue on 0404 860 820 or contact via email if interested in coming to a meeting.

The Warby Artisans & Produce Market is on the first Sunday or every month except January. Quality products handcrafted, home grown & home baked by local Yarra Valley Artisans.

(No screening in January) 2nd Tuesday every month at Upper Yarra Arts Centre, 3409 Warburton Highway, Warburton Victoria 3799. Ph 03 5966 4500. NOW ALSO 3rd Tuesday of every month at The Memo, Healesville.

Tea Cozy Competition & Exhibition - Wonderful tea cozies created by local knitters

Last event: 8 September to 4 October 2016. There is plenty of fun in store at the 63rd Tesselaar Tulip Festival. Visitors will be amazed by the beauty of almost a million Tulips across 25 acres of farmland, all set in the beautiful Dandenong Ranges. Since 1954, we have striven to create a bigger and better festival every year, so everyone can come and enjoy the wonderful Tulips. In 2016 we have planted over 100 000 more Tulips than ever before, including over 120 varieties, to fit them all in we have had to expand our grounds

Last event: 25 September 2016. Yarra Valley ECOSS Inc. is a not-for-profit association incorporated in Victoria under the Associations Incorporation Reform Act of 2012, originally incorporated in 2007 as the Upper Yarra Community Environment Park. Open Tues-Thurs 9-5pm. 711 Old Warburton Rd, Wesburn. PO Box 340, Yarra Junction 3797

The UYVGC helld its annual 2016 Open Garden Weekend on Sat 1st and Sun 2nd of October 2016. They have now started preparing to deliver deliver six beautiful cool-climate gardens in the Warburton area in 2017! CONTACT: Kevin, ph 5966 2828. Entry fees: $20 per person to all five gardens, $15 for groups of 10 or more; $5 per person for one garden.

Completed: Back in 2017! 2016 promo: Garden walks, stalls, music, craft demonstrations & more!
9.30am - 4.30pm. All Proceeds donated to the local CFA

Last event: SUNDAY 23 OCTOBER 2016 - 10 AM TO 4 PM

Back in 2017! Stay tuned. 2016 promo: Join the CyclingTips team on Sunday November 27, 2016 for the second edition of our flagship event, the Giro della Donna. Last year's event was an incredible mix of riding, superb weather, sublime kits, and plenty of laughs.

This event is run in conjunction with the peak bushwalking body, Bushwalking Victoria (fedwalks.org.au) and attended by members of multiple Victorian bushwalking clubs.

Last event: Saturday 8th October. Take the right turn onto the Yarra Valley's Warburton Highway for Shedfest 2015. The picturesque Warburton Highway, in the Yarra Valley, is home to some of the most inviting wineries in the region. A great time to visit is during the Shedfest Wine Festival, held annually on the second weekend in October. Now in its 12th year, the festival was established to showcase the unique charm of some of the wineries and vineyards along the southern side of the Yarra Valley

Last event 14-15 October 2016. The 47th Wandin Sivan Field Days are back in 2016! Traditionally, a strong local representation is backed by exhibits from regional and country Victoria as well as many Interstate businesses.

Last event: 21 October 2016. Come along and join the Blackwood 8 Community in a fun filled night, raising money for brain cancer research and support services.

Results are now available for 2017 Warburton Up and Running. Mark your diary for 25 February 2018 for the next run.

Look out for the popular Recycled Fashion Parade hosted by local Fashionista 'Hans Allover' as ECOSS Ecotopia Earth Festival is hosting its 5th annual NEW and IMPROVED Recycled Fashion Parade.

Celebrate the 15th Oxfam Trailwalker Melbourne event in 2017.The stunning Melbourne trail kicks off in the outskirts of the Melbourne CBD, winding its way through the densely forested Dandenong Ranges and Yarra Valley National Parks, before pouring out into the sweeping plains of the Warburton Valley.

COMPLETED for 2017. BACK in 2018!

The Tesselaar Gardening and Plants Expo offers more than your average plant market with the opportunity to buy direct from the grower. Situated in the heart of Victoria’s plant growing community, this extraordinary market brings a wide range of gardening experts and their plants together in the once place for all to enjoy.

The 32st Apple and Wine Festival will be bigger and better then ever. Come and celebrate the local apple and grape harvest. Entertainment, bands, performers, competitions, rides for the kids, raffles, silent auction, market stalls, wood chop, blacksmith demonstrations, devonshire tea, wines, gourmet cheeses and much more. A great family day out. Free parking and admission. Gladysdale Primary School, Little Yarra Road, Gladysdale

The 34th Warburton Film Festival will be held at the Warburton Arts Centre over the weekend of 16 to 18 June 2017. Details provided on YRFS website. The festival includes the annual 'Show us your shorts' competition which forms an important part of the Warburton Film Festival. Our aim is to showcase emerging filmmakers (Australia wide and in the Yarra Ranges) and encourage young people in our region to pick up a camera and tell creative and original moving image stories.

2016 Rock Berry Jam’s line up included a fabulous all-star line-up of great Aussie rock acts - 2015 included: Jon Stevens, Daryl Braithwaite, The Black Sorrows, Ross Wilson, Jason Singh, The Flaming Moes

Do you love good, tasty and unusual food, wine and beer? Do you want to have mouth watering sauces in your pantry? Do you like to listen to live music? Do you want to learn how to cook with, grow and use herbs and chillies? Do your kids like to have fun - for free?

An annual event, in 2016, the Carols By Candlelight will be held behind the Visitor Information Centre