Two days of clean country family fun hosted by Barung Landcare, the Wood Expo showcases sustainable timber production and our beautiful native timbers through the work of local wood artisans.

Now including local Maleny produce; Sustainable alternatives for the home; Natural resource management displays and much more. Smell the distinctive spicy aroma of newly milled timber and watch live demos of chainsaws, woodworking, trade tools and more.

Pull up a hay bale and enjoy great food and fabulous local music; there’s entertainment for everyone!

OUR WOODWORKERS

From the sophisticated to the sublime, from the radically rustic to the amorphously abstract, our woodworkers never cease to delight and amaze with their breadth of vision for our native and weed timbers. Whether you want furniture for inside or outside, a unique piece as a feature or a superbly crafted wooden gift, the Expo has it all.

There’s something for every budget and every taste.

THE MUSIC MAKERS

Unbeknown to many, the Sunshine Coast Hinterland is home to a wealth of instrument makers, all of whom belong to Australian Association of Musical Instrument Makers (AAMIM) who build and repair a wide variety of traditional, folk and modern instruments.

Their aims include and to encourage the use of high class musical instruments, and to encour- age the use of Australian timbers and materials - admirable!

It is a pleasure and an honour to have them at the Expo.

THE MILLERS

Always a drawcard – start up the mill and see the people swarm. There’s nothing like watching the sawdust fly as the mobile mills transform waste logs into usable timber.

Bring your trailer, take a slab home, craft your own one-off coffee table from our beautiful local timbers. Red and white cedar, camphor laurel, white beech, rose gum, black bean, blue quandong and the list goes on ....

Our mobile millers recycle those dead, dying, windblown and nuisance trees into re-usable timber for furniture and building.

TREE FARMING FOR THE PLANET

Our future timber is destined to come more and more from privately-owned forests as our appreciation of old growth forests means that we cease to log them. Private forests provide far more than timber – they are now recognized as an important farm asset and income stream.

They reward us through repairing and protecting our land, providing biodiversity and habitat, shelter and support for agricultural and grazing enterprises, landscape aesthetics, bushfoods and much more.

The Barung Nursery supports private forestry by supplying good quality tree stock for boutique and larger plantations.

FIGS IN THE FOREST - a Barung TreeLine project

Barung is always keen to involve the community. This year's Figs in the Forest project forms the Expo’s feature exhibition, where we'll be showcasing the works of more than 30 local artists.

These days our majestic ‘figs’ are mainly seen as isolated paddock trees left for shade and shelter on Blackall Range farms, as a grandfather street or garden tree like the controversial sentinel outside Maleny Primary School, and as a monumental giant in rainforest remnants such as Mary Cairncross Scenic Reserve. But Figs are truly iconic trees in our landscape and keystone species in our forests.

Visit Figs in the Forest to see what these magnificent trees invoke in our local artists..

PROUD TO PRESENT:

STAN CEGLINSKI - THE REAL THING

Stan Ceglinski is a big old fashioned style of a man, the image of the timber getters of old, our early pioneers.

Stan represents the romantic outback of Banjo Patterson, the battler outback of Henry Lawson. He is rough and unpolished (may he never be polished). Stan Ceglinski is the real thing... If you want to learn how to build a bark hut or a post and rail fence, how to use an adze or split some shingles, Stan is your man. A consummate showman, Stan Ceglinski is in touch with the earth, passing on a host of knowledge our country

THINK GLOBALLY, ACT LOCALLY

Visit the NRM – the natural resource management – tent to learn how you can contribute to environmental initiatives that conserve and protect our fabulous biodiversity in this region.

With everything from bats to birds to butterflies, from rivers to rainforests, from VCA’s to volunteering – this tent is a wealth of information for those who care.

SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLE CHOICES

And the Expo’s not only about sustainable timber use – the sustainable lifestyle section showcases products that are both socially and ecologically sustainable and that have minimal negative impacts on the environment and those who live within it.

• From worm farming to palm sheath plates - Sustainable Products Australia
• Original, Fair Trade and environmentally friendly gifts that promote energy efficient traditional skills and value cultural knowledge or operate carbon-neutrally, and sales of all support impoverished communities - IbuTrade
• arguably the Australian water industry’s most comprehensive range of filtration equipment brands and flow control systems, plus products and technologies for waste water recycling – Total Water Solutions

Way to go - the Segway

Try out the 21st century’s short-haul transportation alternative – an environmentally friendly, 2-wheeled, self-balancing electric personal transporter – for any age!

Enter the Segway - not only does it have zero emissions but the electric power it draws causes 14 times less greenhouse gas emissions than driving a car. Lean forward to go forward, lean back to go backward, turn by using a “Lean Steer” handlebar, leaning it left or right.. and have fun!

IF YOU'RE PECKISH, PULL UP A HAYBALE and ...

... chill with a burger and beer at the Landcare Bar & BBQ
... lush into a Divine Donut
... feed-up on fish and chips and support Maleny High ...
or drop by one of the other many food venues - there’s something for every craving!

WHAT’S THE STORY IN YOUR CUP?

Relax with a Montville Coffee knowing you are helping build strong communities and support local youth. Montville Coffee trains six local high school students each year and these trainee baristas will make you the best flat white, latte or cappucino at the Maleny Wood Expo.

With $2 from every cup donated to local Landcare education, you know you are making a difference to farmers – whether from Australia, Peru, Nicaragua, East Timor or New Guinea - and the environment.

SUPPORTING OUR COMMUNITY

The Expo offers a major fundraising opportunity for many of our local organisations – and benefits others along the way by default. Maleny High raise much-needed funds while perfecting the humble fish and chip, and the Lions pull together to support Landcare with Real Food Café fare. Others such as the Maleny Community Centre and Conondale Rural Fire Brigade run food outlets, while the Maleny Arts & Crafts Group and the Quota Quilt Club just benefit through the sheer numbers of people in town!

Barung Landcare - the Blackall Range's not-for-profit landcare group

• The Barung Nursery propagates local native plants for revegetation and environmental rehabilitation projects.
• Barung Contracting Service assists local landholders to achieve environmental restoration works on private land.
• The Barung office is a meeting place for locals, providing invaluable information on everything pertaining to our Hinterland environment.

Any surplus generated by the Maleny Wood Expo goes towards keeping Barung open and staffed for the Blackall Range community.

Worker and Volunteer Forms

Barung and the Wood Expo would not survive without the help of our amazing volunteers. Please download and fill out a Volunteer Form if you'd like to help at the 2010 Maleny Wood Expo.

Pics from past Wood Expos

Here are a few shots from around the traps at previous years' festivals. Click on a thumbnail to enlarge and view the the image in slideshow format.

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