MidCoast Growers Network

19/08/2026

This weekend!

Limestone Permaculture Upcoming Events

30/04/2026

🌳🐨 Help Save Koalas—One Tree at a Time! 🐨🌳

Join Mid Coast Council at Burrell Creek this Saturday for Wild Koala Day for a koala-friendly tree giveaway! With 2,500 native plants ready to go, it’s your chance to make a real difference for our furry friends—and your neighbourhood. Take home up to 30 plants each (don’t forget a box or bag)! 🌱💚

Experts will be on hand and keen to share tips on how you can create a safe haven for koalas right in your own yard. Every tree you plant helps local wildlife thrive! 🌿✨
Plus, go in the draw to win a double pass to KOAL at the MEC in June—just for pitching in and being a koala hero. 🎟️🙌

Let’s roll up our sleeves, have some fun, and show nature a little love! 🐾

📅Saturday 2nd May
🕘9am-1pm
📍Burrell Creek Hall

15/04/2026

🌱 Exciting news for MidCoast landholders! We're wrapping up over four years of Private Land Conservation Matters with a day of inspiring speakers, panel discussions, hands-on activities and a chance to connect with passionate locals.

Dive into 25,000 years of local environmental change, explore Indigenous land management insights , and have your voice heard on the future of conservation. Prizes up for grabs for the most enthusiastic attendees! 🏆🐨🌳

📍Join us in Taree
📅Monday, 20th April
🕘9am–3:30pm.
🎫Registrations essential.

• KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Philip Greenwood sharing “In Perpetuity? - Insights for conservation land management from 25,000 years of environmental change in the Barrington - Great Lakes area” 🌄
• PANEL DISCUSSION with landholder representatives, including Philip Greenwood 🗣️
• Morning Tea and lunch ☕🍃
• World Café Table Topics – staff-led conversations to spark new ideas 💡
• PLCM and Land Libraries presentation 📚
• Biodiversity Management on MCC estate & eDNA/Koala session 🐨🌳
• Indigenous Land Management with Shaun Hooper, CEO Barray Alliance – Fire, Country, Q&A 🔥🌏
• Explore “Where to from here”: options, barriers, and future ideas for conservation and Landcare!

https://www.midcoast2tops.org.au/index.cfm?module=event&pagemode=indiv&page_id=5371465

29/10/2025

Nabiac Community Garden open day🌻
Tuesday 4th Nov- 9.30am-11.30a

🐨🐝🌳 We have a big week for events on the cards next week - there's something for everyone, and spots still open at each!

Nabiac Community Garden open day🌻
Tuesday 4th Nov- 9.30am-11.30am
🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆
Join Nabiac's friendly Community Garden volunteers for a fun morning out in the garden. It has been seven years since the first works started (with the plumbing in of a water tank donated by Kit Carson), and the garden has weathered drought, storms and Covid lockdowns to steadily keep on growing.
Taste some produce, pick out a w**d or two, and take home some rootstock for delicious native raspberries.
Morning tea will be provided.
Please register via this link: https://events.humanitix.com/nabiac-community-open-day

Riparian Planting and Regeneration, Washpool 🌱
Wednesday 5th Nov - 8.30am-11am
🌿💦🌿💦🌿💦🌿💦🌿💦🌿💦🌿💦🌿💦🌿
Thanks to our partners at MidCoast Council, this field day will be led by local native native plant propagation guru Peter Gollan, featuring techniques for planting in tough environments, w**d management and planting tips and planting demos and a hands-on planting bee.
Please RSVP to Kristy Peters at [email protected] by Monday 3rd Nov.

Ground Habitat Furnishing, Dyers Crossing 🦔
Thursday 6th Nov - 8am-1pm
🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳
Early field walk & talk, looking at the installation of woody debris in a corridor area to enhance habitat, mitigate erosion, and trap sediment and seeds.
We'll then retreat to the shade for a sit down presentation from ecologist Joel Stibbard about the diversity of animals that need good ground habitat to survive.
Morning tea and lunch provided.
Please RSVP via this link: https://events.humanitix.com/ground-habitat-furnishing-field-day

29/10/2025

🍿Friday Night at the Movies🍿
📽 " FUTURE COUNCIL" Coming to a big screen near you!
Flett Studio, Manning Entertainment Centre- Taree
Friday 14th Nov
7:00 pm