Seymour Alternative Farming Expo 

4th - 6th of April 2025

Kings Park 55 Tallarook St, Seymour Victoria

Join us in the heart of Victoria at this annual event, with almost 400 exhibitors exploring the latest practices, technology and trends in small scale and backyard farming.    

Diggers at the Red
Hill Show

Presented by Julian Blackhirst, Head of Gardens at the Diggers Club.

Saturday 7th March 2026, 8.30 am - 4.00 pm 

Red Hill Recreation Reserve, Arthurs Seat Rd, Red Hill

Join us at the 98th Red Hill Show. We would love to see our members and possible future members join us for a day of Agricultural delights. We will be selling seed and memberships. So pop in and say, 'Hello'!

A Decade of Diggers

Saturday 14th March 2026
Free members event

Windmill Hill Memorial Hall - Launceston

Over the past decade, the Diggers Club has embraced change across five key areas, from adapting our gardens to a changing climate, introducing more sustainable business practices and expanding education programs, to advancing research in heirloom seeds and strengthening our Foundation’s role in biodiversity and sustainability.

Join us for afternoon tea and conversation with Head of Gardens, Julian Blackhirst.

Registration is essential as places are limited.

The Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show

Wednesday 25th March, to Sunday 29th, March.

Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens, Melbourne.

Together, we’re growing a richer food future for Australia.

From 25–29 March, The Diggers Club will be at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show, where our space comes to life as a shifting garden tapestry inspired by the show’s Kaleidoscope theme, bringing ornamentals and food plants together in a mosaic of colour and texture.

Purchase your tickets here and we will see you at the Show!

Diggers Easter Native Bird Egg Hunt

Friday, 3rd to Monday 6th April.

Heronswood, The Garden of St Erth and Cloudehill

Free Activity

Celebrate Easter at The Diggers Club with a nature-inspired Easter hunt designed to identify local bird species - and their eggs.

Bring your Little Diggers for a fun exploration of our beautiful gardens and all the beautiful birds that call Diggers home. This is a free activity for children and they’ll get to take home a lovely prize.

Pick up a map from the Diggers shop. 

Medicinal Meander

Sunday, 19th April.

11:00AM – 12:00PM

The garden of St Erth (Blackwood)

Join herbalist and gardener, Caroline Parker, for a meander around the beautiful gardens of St Erth in Blackwood.

Discover a new lens to look through the plants in their perennial and kitchen gardens.

Book high tea for Mother's Day at Heronswood

Sunday, 10th May
Various time slots

Heronswood (Dromana)

Celebrate the mum in your life at The Diggers Club with a High Tea at Heronswood. Enjoy a decadent high tea, autumn garden walk and complimentary gift for the mums, carers and mother figures at your table.

Book high tea for Mother's Day at St Erth

Sunday, 10th May
Various time slots

The Garden of St Erth (Blackwood)

Celebrate the mum in your life at The Diggers Club with a High Tea at The Garden of St Erth. Enjoy a decadent high tea, autumn garden walk and complimentary gift for the mums, carers and mother figures at your table.

Book high tea for Mother's Day at Cloudehill

Sunday, 10th May 
various time slots

Cloudehill (Olinda)

Celebrate the mum in your life at The Diggers Club with a High Tea at Cloudehill Enjoy a decadent high tea, autumn garden walk and complimentary gift for the mums, carers and mother figures at your table.

In conversation with Tim Pilgrim

Saturday, 2nd May.
3:00PM – 5:00PM

Heronswood Gardens (Dromana)

We bring you the latest in garden ideas and inspiration with our In Conversation program.

Join us at Heronswood for an intimate facilitated conversation with authors.

Author talks and book signings

Find out how gardens not only create gardeners but writers too. 

Heronswood Gardens and Nursery 

We bring you the latest in garden ideas and inspiration with our author talk program. Join us at Heronswood for an intimate facilitated conversation with authors.

These sessions are limited to 40 people. Find out why our guests are motivated to write and when their passion for plants began. What is the one thing they want other gardeners to understand about their work?

This 90-minute program includes time for your questions, book signings and afternoon tea with our author at our historic Heronswood House.

Ticket prices:
$35.00 (members) $45.00 (non-members)

Winter Solstice at The Garden of St Erth

21st of June 2025

The Garden of St Erth, 189 Simmons Reed Road, Blackwood

Join the Diggers team as we rug up to celebrate the longest night of winter with our local community. An afternoon of solstice-themed family activities followed by an evening of live music, local food and mulled wine.    

Afternoon session from 2pm, evening session from 6pm.