Bushcare events

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.

Join Bushcare and guest speaker Ricki Coughlan for a morning wander looking for feathered friends.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Bushcare. What is it all about? If you’re curious, come along to Bush Whackers at Albert Delardes Reserve, Illawong. Meet the whole Bushcare team. This special Bushcare event is the perfect excuse to get out of the house, meet new people, learn about the Shire’s beautiful bushland and get some exercise. All equipment, gloves and morning tea will be provided.

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 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 Bushcare and guest speaker Ricki Coughlan for a morning wander looking for feathered friends.

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.