You may remember from a previous newsletter that NGT was awarded a grant to promote the use of indigenous plant species in public gardens around Mount Gambier. Over the last month we have kicked off plantings around town starting at Burrandies Aboriginal Corporation and Tenison...
Our Community Nursery is overflowing with plants, and it's driving our Nursery Coordinator Ange a little crazy. So we've decided to have a quick plant sale in July!With the lack of rain we haven't been able to plant out some of our project areas and...
We are excited to announce that we have been awarded a grant to promote the use of indigenous plant species in public gardens around Mount Gambier! The project aims to encourage the community to include native plants in their own gardens, by creating demonstration native...
In the lead-up to Volunteer Week in May, we will be featuring some of our wonderful volunteers in each month's newsletter. This month we have the second installment: meet Carole Ryan of the University of the Third Age, a gardener, child sponsor, passionate supporter of...
Our Community Nursery site at Vansittart Park is in a fantastic central location for our volunteers, and allows us to grow seedlings for numerous restoration projects. However, space at our small nursery is limited and we have nowhere to expand, and this year's planting season...
Do you want to attract native butterflies or birds to your garden? Or do you simply want to add beautiful flowers, screening or shade that won't require lots of water and care?Local native plants are adapted to the conditions in your garden and will be...
To keep cool in the hot late-February weather, a dedicated group of volunteers have been working hard under the air-conditioner in our Mt Gambier Community Nursery, sorting through our mountain of seed. Regular volunteers Carole and Samuel with the seed mountain Over December and January, many seeds...
The Mt Gambier volunteer crew have been busy recently with a number of activities. A team of eager volunteers joined me for a working bee at Mount Burr Swamp to remove tree guards and do a little hand weeding at the Creations Stories walk area...
We have a number of public events coming up across SA and Victoria and we'd love for you to join us! Thursday 2nd December: Reef ramble at Cape Douglas Explore the many and varied strange things that wash up along the beach and the creatures that...
The end of year is fast approaching but we still have a few events and volunteer opportunities to finish off 2021. See our full schedule below. As well as our regular nursery sessions (held every Friday at the moment), we have two workshops coming up...
