Bushcare events

Join Council's Native Areas Aboriginal Heritage Officer, Graham Avery for a guided walk around Joseph Banks Native Garden where you will learn about Australian native bushfood.

Join Bushcare and botanist Dan Clarke for a guided nature walk through Burnum Burnum Reserve ridgetop.

Come join us at the Joseph Banks Native Plant Reserve for a fun-filled evening of highlighting the importance of our native animals.

This SSC Bushcare event is perfect holiday fun for the kids and it’s free!  Form a small team or pair and collect clues as you race through.

If you are curious about Bushcare, come along to Bush Whackers at Drysdale Reserve, Kareela and find out for yourself.

Visit the Community Nursery in Gymea and learn how to propagate by cuttings in a Nursery setting and how you can propagate them at home!! Feel free to bring in your own cutting material. Please wear enclosed shoes, hat and bring a water bottle

Join Council's Native Areas Aboriginal Heritage Officer, Graham Avery for a guided walk around Joseph Banks Native Garden where you will learn about Australian native bushfood.

Visit the Community Nursery in Gymea and learn how to propagate by cuttings in a Nursery setting and how you can propagate them at home!! Feel free to bring in your own cutting material. Please wear enclosed shoes, hat and bring a water bottle

Join bushcare on a journey to discover what to do with woody weeds. Green wood craftsmen and sometime Bushcare Officer, Brad van Luyt will show you how to turn useless privet into one of the most useful of objects - a spoon. This day long workshop will give you a new insight into working with the timber of woody weeds and how we can deal with them sustainably. All tools, materials and morning tea supplied.

Join Council's Native Areas Aboriginal Heritage Officer, Graham Avery for a guided walk around Joseph Banks Native Garden where you will learn about Australian native bushfood.

This spectacular and popular 5km guided coastal walk at Kamay-Botany Bay National Park will take you around sand dunes, heath lands and hanging swamps. You’ll see great cliff top views and the Cape Baily Lighthouse. Moderate level of fitness required.

This workshop will look at the common native plants found in many of our remnant bushland reserves with simple tips on how to identify them. It will include a field trip to a bushland reserve in the afternoon to view the studied plants in their natural environment.