Clean Up Australia Day- Edendale Farm and Diamond Creek Trail walk

Next date: Sunday, 01 March 2026 | 09:30 AM to 11:30 AM

Join us on Sunday 1st March at 9:30am to make a difference, help the environment and assist in the clean-up of the Diamond Creek trail and our Eltham North Community Precinct.

How will the event run?

We will begin our event at Edendale Farm (Ironbark shelter-near the northern entrance gate) at 9:30am for site registration, safety briefing and bag collection. Emma Barnett, the Yarra Riverkeeper, will open the event with a short talk. Then we will head down to the Diamond Creek Trail and begin our clean-up event. We will move along the trail picking up rubbish from Edendale Farm, over the bridge, and progress to Eltham North Adventure Playground. Once we have cleaned up the playground we will continue along the Diamond Creek Trail, and head up close to Eltham Redbacks Football Club before turning around and heading back to Edendale Farm and the Ironbark shelter. We will finish with morning tea at Edendale Farm.

What do I bring?

If you have tongs/litter pick up tools or gloves please bring them on the day, along with your weather dependent clothing like a hat. If you don't have equipment, that is fine as we will have plenty of spare gloves, tongs and rubbish bags ready to go.

We ask participants to please register interest so that we can cater for the morning tea after the clean-up event.

Emma Barnett

Emma’s career path has been a colourful journey, full of totally different and bizarre experiences - and that’s exactly how she likes it.

She began in film and television, pulling midnight shoots to track urban possums through Carlton Gardens and documenting the release of Tasmanian devils into their safe haven on Maria Island. Along the way, she designed school holiday programs for refugees and asylum seekers and helped build a social telephone service for people experiencing isolation at the Red Cross.

Curiosity eventually pulled Emma back to university, where she studied conservation biology and genetics at Monash University. This led her into an adaptive evolution lab, researching how Australia’s native Mountain Pepper Berry has evolved over time (yes, plants can be dramatic too).

Today, Emma brings all these threads together through lively conversations, community learning, and storytelling—helping people connect with the Birrarung (Yarra River) and working towards a future where the river is healthy, protected, and deeply loved.