If it’s worth knowing, tasting or doing, it’ll be in the pantry!

Turn a pair of old denim jeans into a bucket hat you can wear inside out. With the Wild Woman of Willunga, you cut and sew a reversible hat from preloved fabric, learning the upcycling tricks along the way. One less pair of jeans headed for landfill.

Hear what it takes to become a Sparkie, a volunteer who hosts a cafe conversation group or a walking group for people who feel alone. Adelaide Hills Council and Spark want hosts and your own ideas too. Spark grew from the ideas and experiences of more than 40 people.

Pull up a chair in the Sustainable Conversations tent and ask the questions you have been meaning to, with Professor Andrew Lowe steering the panel. Then wander the stalls for food, wine, ethical fashion and local makers, with live music and kids about.

James & Oz fill the hall with a full band, big vocals, driving drums and a rock 'n' roll light show. Sing along to Are You Gonna Be My Girl, Kryptonite and I Love Rock n Roll with a drink from the bar. Their biggest local show yet.

Hear a guitarist who won his class in Rome play Albéniz and Barrios, the Paraguayan virtuoso who wrote for the instrument he played. Giulio Mucci-Kanagawa is studying in The Hague now, home for one concert of Spanish and South American music for solo classical guitar.

Sit with fabric scraps and thread in a small wooden hoop, learning basic and decorative stitches with textile artist Leanne Gardner. You leave with your own hoop art, finished or ready to complete at home.

Learn the fire and storm risks for your own corner of the Hills, and what actually helps when a day turns bad. You'll start your own RediPlan, work out who in your street you can lean on, and know what to pack before you need it. So the people you love come through the next extreme weather.

Oompah brass and lederhosen in the restaurant, beers in hand, the band playing while you sit down to dinner. Come along for a night with The Wachsfackels.

You know that feeling of picking up your phone without deciding to. This talk from Sonder looks at the habit itself, and practical ways to manage screen use at home, at work and when you are out with people.

Find out how many strawberries you can put away before someone beats you in the eating competition. Fill up on berries straight through to jam, cake, and strawberries and ice cream, then browse the market stalls for Christmas gifts while the music plays.

Paint liquid dyes onto crepe de chine silk with Helen Moon, trying wax resist, gutta, salt and layered colour. Take home a wrap or wall piece, with materials supplied.

Someone in your town is lonely, and a cafe conversation group or a walking group could change that. Hear what it takes to host one as a Spark volunteer, known as a Sparkie. The idea grew from more than 40 people who sat down together to find answers to loneliness.

When the next fire or flood hits, know what to pack before you need it. Learn your local risks with the Red Cross, start your own RediPlan, and hear from an NRMA Insurance rep what your town and the country around it actually faces.

Slow down enough to draw a single leaf, and watch how much more of the garden you start to see. Sit with your journal among the plants and learn to put what is in front of you onto the page. Your booking supports the Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium.

Sit at a wheel and learn to pull a pot up out of a lump of clay, whether your hands are new to it or already know the spin. You shape tableware or sculpture, then alter the thrown form and add a hand-built piece. The point is a pot you made, not a demo you watched.

Press a design of your own into aluminium and hang it at Christmas or any time of year. Sally Heinrich, who has illustrated more than fifty books, guides you from your own design to hand embossing, with pattern books to start from. You go home able to make more.

Bring the dog for free treats and a vineyard walk with the winemaker while you taste and share a platter. Settle on a picnic rug with lawn games and little pools for the pooches to splash in. An afternoon built for the whole pack.

Help yourself to homemade ice cream from the stall and sit down to eat it where the raspberries grow. Take home berries, sorbet, jam, lemon curd, chutney and vinegar, then figs and passionfruit when the season turns. A family farm stall that runs on trust.

The rosemary and calendula you walk past every day can go on your skin. With natural perfumer Zhanna Petku, learn to read the plants you already grow, then make 3 or 4 products to take home, plus hydrolats and infusions to keep going from the garden.

Lay pressed flowers, feathers and lace on coated paper, then let the spring sun develop them into blue-toned prints, no camera needed. With Ellen Schlobohm you make several photograms, then slow down to stitch simple embroidery into a few of them.

Hear Monteverdi and Handel played on Baroque violin and cello, the instruments this music was written for. Tenor Kyle Stegall and Anthony Hunt at the keyboard carry you from Monteverdi's poetry to Handel's counterpoint, through mythic heroes to redemption.

There's a tired that rest doesn't touch, the kind that shows up after a breakup, an empty nest, a diagnosis. Kim guides you through meditation, gentle yoga, breathwork and a fire ceremony to put down what you've carried and find your next chapter.

A painting made for the ballerina Anna Pavlova, handed back to the artist, then lost for the better part of a century. Allan Campbell traces how a Heysen commissioned for one of the most famous dancers in the world finally found its way back to the studio it came from.

Sit down to a long lunch that travels from the Roman ruins of North Africa to the tribal heartlands of Papua New Guinea. Between courses inspired by those frontiers, Crooked Compass founder Lisa Pagotto tells you about the people and places that sit past the tourist trail.

You live where the hills meet the city, which means you live where fires run. Come learn how bushfires behave, how the warnings work, how to ready your property and when to leave, and walk out with your own Bushfire Survival Plan.

Pick up a pair of gloves and clear the wetlands for an hour, then sit down to a free vegan meal with the people you cleaned up alongside. Kids make art, music plays, and everyone has a place at the table.

Sing carols by candlelight and watch small flames brighten the evening. Hold one of your own and add your voice as the Hills lights up together.

Old shirts and bedsheets become a rug under your hands. Cut the cloth, work it through the loom, and take home something useful made from fabric that was headed for the bin.

If you went to camp here as a kid, this is your chance to walk back through the gates. Net the pond creatures, try orienteering through the forest, make earth art, and take a guided tour of the grounds that have taught children through adventure for fifty years.

Collect and sort waterbugs in the field, or stay in the lab reading samples, with scientists and landholders across the Bremer catchment. Fifth year of getting to know those creeklines up close.

Hear the story of Sir Hubert Wilkins, the Australian who flew over the Arctic and whose name most of us have never learned. Simon Nasht, who wrote the book on him, tells how one man kept pushing into the hardest frontiers on earth, so the achievements get remembered.

Bring the phone in your pocket and learn what to open on it when a fire is close, which apps, where the CFS warnings live, before the danger season sets in. Sit with the steps while they are calm, then stay for coffee and biscuits from the residents association.

Wander Melrose tables packed with Hills makers while the growers hold the usual Saturday spread. Pick something handmade to take home alongside fresh produce. A market morning that puts local craft next to the food.

Follow the kids trail between the stalls while a choir sings carols and Santa makes his rounds. Shop the growers and artisan stalls, grab something from the food vans, and let the little ones get their faces painted in the fading light.

Welcome to the team! This session is especially for new volunteers to the Mount Barker Community Nursery. Join Sam, our Nursery Manager, for a friendly induction session to get you started. You’ll learn a little more about Second Nature...

Pick a spider, a superhero or something properly spooky, and sit still while one of two face painters makes it real. Grab some Halloween treats while they last. All the paint you need before the evening's trick-or-treating begins.

Watch Alejandro Sala draw the way an architect sees, where light, geometry and memory meet in his watercolours and sketches. Meet him, see him demonstrate, and work your way through Italian food and a glass of bubbles while you take in the exhibition.

You build pots with your hands, from coils and slabs through to glaze, and you can try the wheel as well. It suits a first go at clay and anyone who already knows a little. You leave with functional pieces and a sculptural one you shaped yourself.

Sit down together and work out what your household actually does when a fire comes, who leaves, who acts, and when. Learn the local risks and the actions to take before and during a bushfire, then leave with a written plan everyone in the house knows their part in.

Spread a picnic on the grass as D'Artagnan rides for Paris and his sister Sabine disguises herself as his servant, every bit as quick with a sword as the musketeers. Watch Athos, Porthos and Aramis defend the Queen against Cardinal Richelieu, a swashbuckling comedy played out under the stars.

Drag shows all day from Marys Poppin divas, DJs from lunch to sunset, and room to dance or put your feet up. Food, wine and cocktails for one big queer day out at the winery.

Bring the phone or laptop that has been puzzling you and sit down with someone who can walk you through it. One on one, at your own pace, no question too small.

You walk past the Heritage Centre every week and have never been in. Go through the doors with the SWAG women and look at the everyday objects your town lived with in times past, kept going by the volunteers who curate them.

First Aid for Motorcyclists hosts a community debrief for riders. The listing names the gathering and the host, and does not say what will be talked through. You come if that debrief is yours.

Two piano trios written for friends: Shostakovich's grief for Ivan Sollertinsky as the war neared its end, and Beethoven's affection for the Archduke Rudolf. Three friends play them on violin, cello and piano. Music about friendship, played by friends.

Throw your swag in the car and drive up for a day of Adelaide's alt psych and post-punk, from Druid Fluids stretching their recordings into a full audiovisual trip to Coldwave's jagged guitars and booming horns. Camp overnight in the bushland out back, then wake to acoustic sets and a BBQ brekky.

Spread a rug on the grass and settle in for an afternoon with the best bunch of neighbours you can think of. Live local music and kids games fill the day, with plenty for the big kids too, all put on by neighbours for neighbours.

Seven young Conservatorium Fellows, one afternoon each, from voice and violin to oboe, bassoon and trombone. Hear them play Schubert, Bartok, Jolivet and Poulenc with pianist Simón Pazos Quintana, a year of their work gathered into one concert.

Bring the women you have leaned on this year and sit down together over a year-end lunch. A chance to slow down, share the table, and mark what you have built with SustainHer.

Bring the jeans you can't wear and the pillowcases you don't use, and weave them into a rug with artist Bronwen Whyatt. Learn to cut fabric to size for its weight and texture, then work old scraps into something you take home. Bronwen's own weaving started in her grandmother's sewing room.

One family Christmas recipe meets another over tea with the CWA. Taste the dishes, swap the stories behind them, and leave with a new recipe to cook this year.

Paint in watercolour on a metal plate, then run it through a press so the image lifts onto damp paper in reverse, in washes you can make only once. Printmaker Betty-ann Heim walks you through getting a plate print-ready. You go home with a monotype and a technique you did not have before.

Walk through a hall turned haunted, then come back out into the dark to the market stalls. Find food, drinks and snacks, and the stalls of local businesses while you shake it off.

Follow Hans Heysen's career through the exhibition catalogues that tracked him, decade by decade, as his reputation grew into one of Australia's most celebrated artists. Caroline Berlyn traces more than fifty years in print, then you can walk through the paintings those catalogues were advertising.

Hear the Whitlams songs you know as the chamber pieces they started from, before the orchestra got to them. Tim Freedman and eight players perform the premiere of Chamber Eight, built from scores commissioned by Sculthorpe, Brett Dean and Denholm, plus two new arrangements written for this room.

Two people who knew Nora Heysen sit down to tell you what she was like, both here in the garden studio and in her own home and studio in Sydney. Cathi Speck and Allan Campbell share the woman behind the paintings, from memory rather than the gallery wall.

Run a business and it's easy to go weeks without a conversation that actually lands. Over coffee, a small group of Hills operators talk honestly about what's working and what isn't, guided by Bel Ryan, a mental health clinician of twenty years. An hour to pause before you go back to it.

A grandparent who went missing and was never spoken of, a child generations later carrying feelings that were never theirs. This process works through the body, not conversation, to find the family patterns playing out in you without your knowing.

Take the wheel of a supercar and point it at more than 200km of Hills road, swapping into a different one as the day goes on. You drive the route yourself, through the autumn colour, from a collection of the latest models.

Hear the stories that never made it onto the gallery labels, from the Frenchman two Heysens both admired to the memories of people who sat with Nora in her studio. A rotating cast of speakers takes one thread of Hans and Nora Heysen's lives each month, in the house where they worked.

Sit down to soup when it is cold out and lighter plates when it is warm, cooked to whatever the season is doing. It is a shared table with your neighbours, and a reason to come in from the hill and eat together.

Sit down with your neighbours to a bowl of soup when it's cold and something lighter when it's warm, cooked to the season. A monthly meal made for staying and talking.

Cara-Ann Simpson makes Furari Flores from serious illness and a life with disability, told through plants. Spectrographs of field recordings sit with the video, and the Latin titles nod to medicine and botany. You are looking at health, home and the plants she took the story from.

Finish your Christmas shopping across an old woollen mill lit up for the season, with handmade stalls spilling into the Mill Shed for the first time. Browse artist and maker tables, catch live music as the sun sets, and stay for the costumes of State Theatre Company on show.

Flowers, fruit and the everyday objects on a kitchen bench, and what Hans and Nora Heysen saw in them. Artist Alison Mitchell-Hannaford walks you through their still lifes and how each one turned an arrangement into a portrait of character.

Buy a freshly made bouquet or choose bunches of native blooms to arrange at home, straight from the shed door of a working flower farm. If what you want is not in the buckets, they will pick it fresh for you. Workshops can be booked too.

One man, a vintage guitar and a voice gritty enough that Fantastic Negrito called it one of the best one-man shows he has seen. Shaun Kirk brings his blues and soul grooves, the same set that has opened for Joe Bonamassa and Beth Hart, down to a Hills pub.

Settle in with a pork, chicken or veg roll and let Ember Ally's harmonies carry the evening. The trio weave acoustic pop, folk and soul through layered vocals, guitar and percussion. It is a meal and a set built for staying awhile.

Cut and set tiles into a wreath you can hang each December. Over the series you build it piece by piece and take home something you made by hand for Christmas.

Dye wool with what comes out of your kitchen and garden, set with soy milk, and watch a few batches of yarn turn colour to take home. Then learn the basic needlepoint stitch with Stephanie Doddridge and start a project on canvas, with the skills to finish it at home.

Sit in a hall built to remember soldiers while silent film flickers and new sound fills a room made for gathering. Jesse Budel and Joseph Burgess bring experimental music, textile art and old cinema together across three linked performances, each tied to the memory held in these walls.

Cut your own bunch from more than 12 acres of purple rows, then picnic on the lawns with the highland cows and alpacas. It is the largest farm of its kind in South Australia, and this is the season it blooms.

Build a float, fall in with the bands, choirs and entertainers, and lead Father Christmas through the streets to the oval. Community groups compete for the Best Dressed prize. When he arrives, the fair and market begin and the children get their turn with him.

Cherry Poppins and Ali Holic are back, this time in their Halloween best, calling comedy bingo between shows. Put on a costume, there are prizes for the best one, and settle in over brisket or a chicken kiev while the numbers and the heckling fly.

Learn the marketing shortcuts the textbooks skip, from people who built brands the hard way so you don't have to. Ralph Ayoub of dsrpt shares tested digital strategies you can use the next morning, over supper with other founders working out the same problems.

Six draft plans for how the council looks after community land, and the budget behind them, laid out so you can ask about the ones near you. Hear a short overview, then sit with the project team in small groups to put your questions and feedback where they count.

Six draft plans for the land your community already uses are on the table, and the people who wrote them want to hear where they got it wrong. Sit down with the project team in small groups, ask your questions, and shape how these spaces get looked after.

Pull up a chair at the Heysen family table and hear who used to sit there: the names from art, theatre, music and politics who made the house a meeting place. Caroline Berlyn and Allan Campbell tell the stories of the guests who kept coming back.

Bright, imaginative artworks by young South Australians line the walls, each one showing a favourite thing to do in SA and the NT. Thirty favourites hang at this branch, part of a wider collection shared across six locations.

Lie back, close your eyes, and let the sound of crystal and Tibetan bowls, chimes, drums and gongs wash over you. Guided breathing settles you first, then the frequencies work on your nervous system while you do nothing but receive. Stay for a cuppa with the instructor after.

Pablo Wright wrote the book he wishes his own parents had read. He'll talk through his life with autism, the everyday challenges and the strategies that helped, then take your questions. Whether you parent, teach or support someone, you leave understanding autism from the inside.

Smell a plant resin, a flower absolute and a tincture side by side, then build them into a scent that is only yours. Zhanna, a European-trained perfumer, walks you through top, heart and base notes and how scent catches a memory. You leave with the 10ml bottle and the formula to make it again.

Walk a Manchurian pear driveway to a white cottage where the owners grow Sauvignon Blanc and Shiraz on a north slope, then make the wine in the garage. Wander to the duck dam and tea, with a sausage sizzle for the CFS.

Sew a piece of wall art from fabric scraps and thread stretched over a small wooden hoop, with textile artist Leanne Gardner. Learn basic and decorative hand stitches, no experience needed, and go home with the piece finished or the know-how to finish it yourself.

Shape a mug or bowl with your own hands, no wheel, just clay and the quiet of building something from a lump. Take home a piece for the Christmas table that you made yourself.

See what comes out when a watercolour class works on whatever they choose: abstracts, portraits, landscapes and botanicals, each one someone's own project. Meet the students from Bethany Neck's class over wine and nibbles at the launch.

Nine small wine makers pouring their new releases at the pub, then DJs and vinyl as the sun goes down. Pour by pour across the terrace, with snacks on the side and a Schooie to start, this is spring the way the Hills growers taste it.

Dance into golden hour on the terraced lawns while Cosmo's Midnight play the beats behind 440 million streams and five Gold singles. Sparkling wine, spritzes and a duo who've collaborated with the likes of BTS, out in the open as the sun drops.

Work out your personal numerology number for 2027, then cut and paste a vision board around what it tells you to expect. Megan James maps the planets and influences for the year while you set goals for self care, work, relationships and holidays over tea and nibbles.

Set up an Alert SA watch zone on your own phone before fire season arrives. Learn which bushfire information to check daily, how to find your way around the CFS website and how to report an emergency through Emergency Plus. So you know where to look when the day comes.

Roll your own sushi from the mat up, with Steph McInnes showing you how to keep it together. You bring the hands, everything else is on the table.

Sit down with someone from SA Power Networks and untangle the electricity bill that never quite makes sense. Learn what the charges mean, compare plans and spot simple ways to use less. Leave knowing what to ask next time.

The source gives almost nothing beyond the title: a women in business networking event for the Hills. Come to meet other women running their own ventures and swap what is working and what is not.

Follow a Chris Edser map from cherry orchards to sunflower fields, lavender rows and truffle hunts, picking your own as you go. One illustrated guide and a QR directory to plan a full day of farm gates across the Hills, season by season.

Pleat your first dumpling with your thumbs, then hear the stories that go with the shapes. You cook together and sit down to eat what you folded, no experience needed to start.

Harp, voice and percussion, played by an ASO principal percussionist and a harpist who sings, carrying Christmas songs from medieval tunes to this year's carols. Emma Horwood and Steve Peterka are joined by Ellie and Liam Peterka on vocals, with sing-alongs for everyone.

Pull on your boots and dance to live country music with a beer in hand. Line dancing, a brewery kitchen and a floor that fills up as the night goes on.

Hans Heysen worked in watercolour, oil and charcoal to pin down the particular light of the Australian bush. John Neylon walks you through how he did it, and how that vision changed the way generations of Australians have looked at their own country.

Carl Orr played guitar for Billy Cobham, and Cobham drummed on Bitches Brew. For the Miles Davis centenary, Orr and his band take you through Davis's work in order. Then they show how the Prince of Darkness shaped the players who came after him.

Watch Argentinian asador meats come off the wood fire, pork belly and slow-cooked beef and chorizo under a chimichurri you'll be thinking about later. Martin Moran pours his new malbec to match, a Spanish band plays, and you catch the sun going down on the lawn.

If you've waited years for a diagnosis or had your pain dismissed, bring that story. Senator Marielle Smith hosts a panel with gynaecologists, researchers and the Assistant Minister for Health and Women, plus stalls on the supports you can actually reach.

Watch dye spread across a length of crepe de chine, then work back into it with salt, wax resist and gutta to hold your colour where you want it. Textile artist Helen Moon shows you the layering that turns silk into something you can wear as a wrap or hang on the wall.

Get off the apps and into a room with other singles, drink in hand and a reserved corner to settle into. No speed dating, matching or forced timer, just real conversations at your own pace, with Annita hosting. Come solo, most people do.

Walk a Hills nature reserve with landholders, reading healthy and degraded scrub side by side. Practical steps for weeds, condition and caring for native vegetation on your own place.

Walk the spring rows with snips and a jug and pick the stems you want to take home. Or follow the QR trails through the fields and stop for a picnic among the blooms. Spring flowers do not stick around long, so this is the window to see them.

Play a whole day of volleyball in costume, ghouls and goblins diving for the ball, with players who have come from all over Australia. Stay for the raffle and awards dinner, and prizes for the best costume. It runs to celebrate LGBTQIA+ volleyball in South Australia.

Sit close enough to watch him coax sounds out of one guitar that make you check there isn't a second player. Daniel Champagne brings his live show back to Australia, folk and blues and roots reimagined for a small room where the front row is worth fighting for.

Bring the dog to the library lawns, take a question to a vet, then pose together at the kissing booth for a photo. There's paw painting that stays mess-free, dog-themed craft for the kids, mini competitions, and a story read by the author of Ace Visits the Vet.

Sonya Unwin paints the garden as a theatre of colour: rhubarb reds, sunlit greens, violets and gold. She works in the open air, so the light and the weather get into the brushwork, including Cascading Against the Arrangement and Dunlop the Swan. Step in and the ordinary garden is the whole show.

Spend a day on the farm with Graeme Davis, who leads the Dahlia Society of Australia and has exhibited dahlias since the late 1980s. He covers harvesting, disbudding, deadheading and good repeat flowering. Decades of heatwaves, storms and every kind of soil, passed on to you.

Watch the sun drop over the vines while Jacqui Lim plays. Settle in with the new menu and estate-grown wines poured to match, as the light goes gold over the rows.

Behind one of Australia's great artistic legacies was the woman who ran the house, the family and the career: Sallie Heysen. Caroline Berlyn and Susan Woodburn tell how she managed Hans Heysen's success with the business sense and resilience the paintings never show.

Wander more than 130 South Australian makers' stalls for gifts you will not find in a shopping centre, with food, local drinks and live music. A playground keeps little ones busy while part of the market's proceeds supports Paws for Change.

Collect and sort waterbugs in the field, or stay in the lab reading samples, alongside scientists and landholders on the Angas and Finniss creeklines. Eleventh year of looking after those waterways.

Hand over the designer piece that never quite suited you and walk out with something new to you, token for token. Share bubbly and nibbles before the swapping starts, and whatever is left goes to the local CFS Op Shop, a small stand against fast fashion.

Step away from the noise of school life for a bushwalk and a few quiet mindfulness practices with other educators. Reconnect over a platter and a glass of wine as the light drops, hear how the wellbeing work is done here, and see the 2027 Educator Wellbeing Calendar launched.

Take the wheel of a latest specification supercar and drive it through the Hills. You set out from the lodge and see South Australia from the driver's seat.

Send your little ghosts and witches down the Storybook Trail after dark, collecting sweet surprises at each trick or treat stop. Watch CircoBats bats appear in the lights and smoke, then pop on headphones for a silent disco to dance your way to the end.

Book the work crew, or the family, in among the cars for a Christmas lunch or dinner. Set-menu festive spread, with the whole place available to yourselves if you fill it.

Two voices that grew up singing together take on the harmonies that made the Eagles, Simon and Garfunkel and the Everly Brothers. Sixty years of songs, from the Seekers and the Bee Gees to Shania, with a few surprises you will know the second they start.

Sit down to delicate sandwiches, sweets and bubbles in a hall that has stood for a hundred years. Taylor & Holmes supply the food, you supply the company. It is one afternoon to mark a century the community built together.

Dust off your cowboy boots and learn the line dance steps between wines in the vineyard. There's live country music, Mexican food and a glass in hand all afternoon.

Watch the Cup from among the vines, glass in hand, with a long lunch to settle into while the race runs. Four hours in the winery to eat, drink and see which horse you had a feeling about.

Learn to use the tools safely over three weeks with instructor Rose Squire, building on the introductory woodworking course. Beginners welcome alongside those carrying on, in a shed set up for women to find their way around the workbench.

Sit down across from one NDIS provider, then the next, and the next, until you have met the people behind the services in one afternoon. Ask your questions face to face, find the supports you need, and leave with real connections instead of a list of phone numbers to chase.

A biennial art prize for landscape, in painting, sculpture and moving image, judged by people who work in the arts. Hans Heysen painted the land and fought to keep its trees, and this prize carries that on. Finalists hang together, and the winners are named at the launch.

The six draft plans that decide how your local reserves and ovals get managed are on the table, and the staff writing them want to hear what you think before they are set. Sit in on the overview, then talk it through with the project team in small groups, or drop in to ask your own questions.

Find out what extreme weather could do to your street, then start your own RediPlan with Red Cross. Learn the risks, what to pack, and who to lean on, with an NRMA rep on hand to map the dangers near your town.

Learn dahlias from a grower who has raised them through heatwaves and storms since the 1980s. Watch him divide a clump, and find out when to dig tubers and how to store them over winter. Start with a bed of your own next season.

Behind every fire truck there is a crew on the radio running paging, mapping and strike team coordination. Meet them, and the brigades, at an open base with a free sausage sizzle, Smokey the Bear and VR goggles. You do not have to fight fires to be part of the CFS.

Start with a BBQ at the fire station and a look over the trucks, then sit down with CFS and SES crews who tell you which hazards actually reach your street. Walk out having started your own RediPlan, so when the next extreme weather comes you already know what to pack and who to call.

A plan review lands and the funding no longer fits the home. Four SA providers, Kanda, Vera Living, Adenium Living and Avenu, talk through mismatched funding, SIL and SDA partnerships, and navigating reviews, then take your questions.

Deb Light pours the new vintage and tells you what happened behind each bottle, down to the refreshed labels. Chef Cookie builds the menu around what is in your glass, course by course. Sixty seats at one table.

Every business in the Hills has a reason someone drives past the others to reach it. With Heretics Studio, TiCSA and Adelaide Hills Tourism, find yours in the people, history and personalities behind your door, then turn it into branding that gets visitors there.

Walk the avenue of mature trees into five acres holding more than a thousand roses, box hedges and a prairie garden still taking shape. Buy plants grown from the beds themselves. It was made in memory of a friend lost to MND.

Sit down with the CFS and actually write the Bushfire Survival Plan you keep meaning to make. They give you the tools to fill it in, so before the next fire season you know what your household will do and when.

If you have a role you cannot seem to fill, hear from an employer who filled it by hiring differently. Emma Ramke, Deanna Wallis, Sarah Kemp and others share what inclusive employment looks like in practice, over food. For Hills businesses, backed by the Autism Works grant.

Buy your veg and eggs straight from the growers who raised them. Fill your bag while the morning's still cool.

Fill your basket with produce sold by the people who grew it. Ask the growers how it was made and what's good this week.

Fill your basket with fruit and veg picked this week by the growers themselves. You buy straight from the people who grew it.

Buy fruit and veg from the growers who raised it. Fill your basket with whatever's in season this week.

Fill your basket with produce picked that week, sold by the growers themselves. Seasonal fruit and veg straight from the people who grew it.

Browse handmade craft, gifts and homewares from local makers. Chat to the people who made them in a friendly village-hall market.

You only catch this market when the month runs to a fifth weekend. That quirk of the calendar is the whole reason it happens.

Browse stalls of local craft, produce and makers under the one hall roof. It's a community market run by locals each month.

Fill a bag with fresh garden produce and still-warm home baking. Browse the handmade craft stalls while you're at it.

Fruit and veg from the growers who raised it, picked out on the spot. Local makers bring whatever came up fresh that morning.

Fill your basket with produce straight from the Hills growers who raised it. Local makers set up alongside them in the one spot.

Fill your basket with fruit and veg straight from the Hills growers who raised it. You buy direct from the people who grow and make it.

Buy fruit and veg from the Hills growers who picked it. Wander tables of local makers with their produce and more.

Fill your basket with fruit, veg and eggs from the growers who raised them. Meet the makers behind your breakfast face to face.

Browse the garden, art and craft, bric-a-brac and sweet treats on the oval, with makers and growers you can talk to. Run together by the Centenary Park Committee and the local community association.

Fill your basket with fresh produce, plants and handmade bits on the oval. It is an easygoing country market to wander through.

Local growers and makers set up their stalls inside the old memorial hall. Come find what the Hills are picking and crafting this month.

Duck into the laneways and the market turns colourful, cosy and a little bit crazy, with performance artists working the side streets. Run by the village's own businesses, it has twice won Mainstreet SA's best market award and now sits in its Hall of Fame.

The market spills off the main street into the laneways and side streets you usually walk straight past. Wander the stalls between the shops, then follow the crowd through to the next lane and see where it goes.

The market spills off the main street into the laneways and side streets you usually walk straight past. Wander the back ways of the village between stalls and see where they lead.

The market spills off the main street into the side lanes, so wander the quieter corners where the stalls tuck in between the shopfronts. Browse your way through the village a laneway at a time.

Wander off the main street and into the side lanes behind the village, where the market spills over for the day. Browse the stalls, then find what the laneways are hiding.

The side streets of the village fill up alongside the market, so you can wander off the main road and see what the laneways have put on. Part of the ongoing series that runs through the warmer months.

Around 80 stalls of makers, bakers and growers spread out under the oaks. Wander the street for fresh food, plants and handmade finds.

Browse under the plane trees for what the Hills makers have brought out this month, from the people who grew and made it. Food, crafts and stalls down the avenue, coming back around once a month.

Browse the stalls under the plane trees, where growers, makers and bakers set up along the avenue once a month. Fill your basket, meet the people behind what you take home.

Stalls run the length of the avenue under the plane trees, from makers and growers to the people who baked what you are about to eat. Wander, fill a bag, and see what the Hills turns out once a month.

Browse stalls under the plane trees, from makers and growers to secondhand finds, with coffee in hand. One of the Hills markets that comes round once a month, so you catch what the season brought.

Stroll the avenue under the plane trees and fill a bag from the stalls that set up along it. Handmade things, something to eat, growers with what they picked this week, back again as it has been most months of the year.

Stroll under the plane trees and fill a bag with what the stallholders have brought down from their own patches. Food, makers and growers set up along the avenue, month after month.

Browse stalls under the plane trees, where the makers and growers set up along the avenue once a month. Fill a basket, follow the crowd, and see what the Hills bring to the table this month.

Browse produce, plants and crafts from local makers all under the one roof. It's a temporary home while the usual hall is being refurbished.

Fresh produce, plants and craft from local makers fill the hall. Wander the stalls while the Institute gets its refurbishment.

Fill your basket with fresh produce and home baking from local growers. Have a browse of what the makers have brought along to sell.

Browse stalls of home baking and goods from Hills makers, run every month by the Rotary Club of Onkaparinga. What you spend at the tables goes back into the work the club does.