Your weekend, sorted by Wednesday
Hills Happenings lands in your inbox every Wednesday morning. Four minutes later, the weekend is planned.
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Wednesday is early enough to book the good things before they fill, and late enough that the weekend line-up is settled. Long lunches, live music, open cellar doors, market mornings: you read it midweek and walk into the weekend with a plan.
And if your week has room in it, the Hills do too. Weekday workshops, classes and small events run right through, and the newsletter carries those as well, whatever you are into.
Around 16,600 people read it each week, and more than half of them open it every single Wednesday. It has gone out every week since February 2025, more than 80 editions so far. Figures as at July 2026.
What's inside
- The week's features
- Two proper write-ups every edition, written after we have spoken to the people running them. A winter fire night in Nairne, lunch with Matt Preston at Golding Wines, truffle season arriving in the Hills.
- Personally curated guides
- What is on and worth your time right now, from festivals like Winter Reds and SALA down to a single walk, farm gate or brewery trail. Chosen by someone who has done them.
- Cellar doors and tables
- We know the top cellar doors, restaurants and venues by name, and a few you would drive straight past without knowing. When they run something special, it shows up here.
- What's on this week
- The full run of Hills events for the next seven days, plus which markets are on, checked before it goes out.
- Community news
- Openings, closings, changes of hands and the things locals need to know, without the noise of a general news feed.
Readers hear it first
Some of what we write never makes it to the website or our socials. Limited-spot dinners and small events go to the newsletter first, so our readers get the first chance to book before word spreads.
New curated guides, the walks, the farm gates, the brewery trails, are released in the newsletter before they appear anywhere else.
From a Hills local
Every edition is written and edited by Steph Kilpatrick, who lives here, shops here and turns up to the things she writes about. She knows the cellar doors, restaurants and venues by name, including a few you would drive straight past without knowing. Nothing is syndicated and nothing is copied off a council website.
Who reads it
The newsletter sits at the centre of a wider Hills audience: 60,000 followers across Instagram and Facebook, including more than 50,000 people in our Adelaide Hills Roadside Stalls group, and more than 35,000 visits to the website each month. All up, around 75,000 people follow what we do.
Figures as at July 2026. Plenty of people follow us in more than one place, so the channels overlap.
Roadside stalls, the reason the Facebook group grew past 50,000 people.
Read a few first
- Hills Happenings, 15 to 21 July 2026Birds, fires, big reds and a big week worth knowing about in the Hills.
- Hills Happenings, 8 to 14 July 2026Black winter truffles, a beautiful note, and a big week in the Hills.
- Hills Happenings, 1 to 7 July 2026Red Cacao heads to the city, e-bikes in Uraidla, an Italian night at Kitchen Farm, and local theatre in Stirling.
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Every edition opens with a story, then a poster, then the week ahead. Partner placements sit inside that structure, so they read like the rest of the coverage instead of an ad break.
- A written feature
- Two to three hundred words about you, written in our voice, with your photos and your links. It runs in the newsletter and stays on the website afterwards.
- A poster at the top
- Your event opens Hills Happenings as a flyer-style poster. Two a week, first in first served, so the week does not turn into a noticeboard.
- A place in a curated guide
- The guides are the ones readers keep and come back to: brewery trails, walks, farm gates, days out with the kids.
- Top of the edition
- Your logo sits directly under ours at the top of the newsletter, with a mid-edition spot if you want one.
In any edition you feature in, no competing business in your category appears anywhere across our channels.
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