The WA Tree Festival 2024 is a community celebration of trees in our urban areas and beyond, running from 6 April – 5 May 2024. Trees are crucial for our health and wellbeing, they provide a range of benefits, including: Cooling our homes, streets, and environment (canopy cover can cool areas by up to five […]
🌟 FREE COMMUNITY EVENT 🌟 Participants will learn about the visible mending approach as it celebrates the mending process rather than hiding repairs or imperfections. During the workshop, you will learn about a few basic “tools of the trade” and practical techniques such as patching, darning, and embroidery to creatively mend holes, tears, and stains. Its OK […]
Come and join the City of Perth in launching our annual Tree Month with a community planting day at Trinity Foreshore! We will be installing trees and plants along the river foreshore and reserve helping to increase our canopy cover and enhancing our biodiversity. Attendees are advised to wear sturdy footwear, a hat and sunscreen. […]
🌟 FREE COMMUNITY EVENT 🌟 A great diversity of Australian wildlife relies on hollow cavities in native trees (known as tree-hollows) to meet their nesting or roosting requirements. Such hollows take hundreds of years to form naturally, but sadly, due to massive land-clearing since European settlement in Australia, countless numbers have been lost. This plight has had a severe impact […]
Please join us at JH Abrahams for a Planting Day in celebration of Tree Month at the City of Perth. We will be installing trees and plants around the playground area helping to increase our canopy cover and enhancing our biodiversity. Attendees are advised to wear sturdy footwear, a hat and sunscreen. Refreshments to follow.
The City of Canning Free Tree Giveaway is back! Receive a free plant for your garden and contribute to the growth of our urban forest. After the success of last year's event, where 600 trees were distributed, we are thrilled to announce this year's giveaway is bigger and better than ever! We're aiming to distribute […]
Come along and make your own Kokedama plant ball. Kokedama is the Japanese artform that involves a ball of soil, covered with moss, on which an ornamental plant grows. We’ll adapt this technique using sustainable materials and create your very own unique garden ball to hang at home. Add some greenery to your home with […]
Are you tired of feeling overwhelmed by clutter? Have you been dreaming of a simpler, more organised lifestyle? Want to responsibly rehome items and better recycle or dispose of the rest? This workshop is for you! Join sustainability educator Laura Monisse for an engaging session on the art of decluttering and learn practical strategies you […]
Come along for an informative workshop on composting with microbes and learn how to make your garden thrive! In this workshop we will be exploring compost systems – who makes them and how, and why they are used. We will go through some different types of composts and the role microbes play. Once we have […]
Keep your street cool and support the local environment by transforming your front verge into a thriving garden! Did you know that Perth has the lowest amount of tree canopy than any other Australian capital? Planting a verge with low growing plants, either native or even vegetables, can help address the Urban Heat Island […]
Join the team from Perth City Farm to discover how to create gardens that you and native and honey bees will love. We’ll cover the basics of good garden design, top plant choices for the Perth climate, creating habitat for native bees, and a bit about the bees you can expect to attract. And we’ll […]
Do you want a thriving garden that waters itself? Wicking beds are a type of garden bed that requires far less water than traditional garden beds. These garden beds are called wicking beds due to the process of the water wicking up from the base of the garden bed. No need to water from the […]