2026 VIC Events

Date: Friday 24 April 2026 | Time: 10:00 am – 3:30 pm
Location: Radial Timber Australia, 35 Livingston Rd, Yarram VIC 3971

Date: Friday 8 May 2026 | Time: 10:00am – 2:30pm
Location: Bindi Wines, 343 Gisborne-Melton Rd, Gisborne VIC 3437

Dates: Friday 12 June – Sunday 14 June 2026

Past Events

Landscape Restoration & Entomology Expo
Date: Saturday 4 October
To read the report, click HERE.

Trees & Timber Showcase Tour
Date: Friday 12 September | Location: Radial Timber Australia, Yarram VIC
To read the report, click HERE.

Recreation in Forests – What’s it Really Worth?
Date: Thursday 17 July | Location: Naughtons Hotel, Parkville
To read the report, click HERE.

FFG Field Day: Trees that Work for Timber, Carbon & Critters
Date: Saturday 7 June | Meeting Point: 835 Lancefield-Tooborac Rd, Nulla Vale VIC 3435
To read the report, click HERE

Optimism & Expansion: Forest Research Repositioning Australian Forestry
Date: Thursday 5 June | Location: The Last Jar, 616 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne.
The VIC branch was delighted to host Professor Mark Brown from the University of the Sunshine Coast (UniSC), who gave an informative overview of the research areas at UniSC.
To read the report, click HERE

VIC Field Trip | State forests – Forests and Fire Programs
Date: Saturday 24 May 2025

FFORNE: Farm Forestry Field Day
Date: Friday 2 May 2025 | Location: 495 Forbes-Moranding Road, Willowmavin.
To read the event report, click HERE

VIC Event: Australian Forest and Wood Innovations Overview
Date: Thursday 27 March 2025  | Location: Naughtons Hotel, 43 Royal Parade, Parkville.
The Forestry Australia Victorian Branch was pleased to host the new Executive Director of Australian Forest and Wood Innovations (AFWI), Dr Joseph Lawrence.

NETWORKING & DISCUSSION: Forest and Rural Fire – What is happening on the other side of the world?
Date: Thursday 5 December 2024

NETWORKING & DISCUSSION: Biodiversity markets – Integrating commercial and conservation objectives
Date: Thursday 19 September 2024

FFORNE FIELD TRIP: John Woodley Farm Forest – Sustaining Farm Plantations
Date: Sunday 16 June 2024

Social Night: The Victorian transition out of native timber harvesting and the associated reform program
Date: Thursday 13 June 2024

Networking Event:  Let’s talk about Biodiversity Offsets at the pub | Alexandra, VIC
Date: Friday 17 May 2024

FIELD TRIP: Farm Forestry Field Day at Titanga, Lismore
Date: Saturday 11 May 2024

Victorian Annual Meeting
Date: Thursday 23 November 2023 | Time: 5:00pm

FFORNE AGM
Date: Sunday 19 November | Time: 12:00pm

FIELD TRIP: Forestry and active management for biodiversity
Date: Saturday 7 October

Networking Event: Urban Forestry
Date: Thursday 21 September
Speaker: Kelly Hertzog, Manager, Urban Forest and Ecology, City of Melbourne

Victorian Forestry: Where to next?
Discussions around the ongoing impacts of and response to the Victorian Government decision to close native forestry in December 2023
Date: Thursday 20 July

VIC Field Trip: Opportunities for agroforestry and utilising plantation grown hardwoods in Gippsland
Date: Saturday 29 April

VIC: Networking Event
WithOneSeed Project, East Timor. Presentation by Andrew Mahar, AM
Date: Thursday 23 February 2023

End of Year Celebration & Seminar
Increasing productivity and value of Victoria’s forest plantations through tree breeding: past, present and future.
Date: Thursday 8 December 2022

Open Day: Farm Forestry at Brimin Lodge, NE Victoria
Date: Sunday 9 October 2022

Networking Event: Australia’s Timber Supply
Australia’s Timber Supply: The role of imports, impacts of war and what do we do now?
Date: Thursday 8 September 2022

File Trip & Demostration: CERES Fair wood
Gippsland Agroforestry Network (GAN)
Date: Wednesday 15 June 2022

Field Trip: Strathbogie
Farm Forestry North-East (FFORNE)
Date: Saturday 4 June 2022

Field Trip: Forest Pest Management Research Consortium – Gippsland
Date: Thursday 21 May 2022

Networking Event: Warragul
Gippsland Plantations and Investment
Date: Thursday 16 December 2021