30 March to 30 April 2024, daily from dawn till dusk - Barossa Arts Festival - Garden Sculpture Competition
Visit us during April and take a stroll along the sculpture trail through the gardens and parts of adjacent Coulthard Reserve. Vote for your favourite sculpture or buy one of the displays for your own home.
Brochures will be available at the Volunteer Centre and Southern Entrance from 30 March.
Find out more about the Barossa Arts Festival below.
POSTPONED!
11 April 2024, 10.30am - 2.30pm - Nature Connection for People living with Dementia
The importance of connecting to nature for our minds and bodies is well understood, regardless of our background or ability.
Come along to this free event for people living with Dementia and connect to nature at the Barossa Bushgardens.
Share in a BBQ lunch, explore the gardens, wander through the labyrinth, and connect with the soil, plants and people.
Make a pot for seeds, water plants, or sit and hear more about the importance of connecting to nature for health and wellbeing.
Plan your day as you choose, and stay as long as you’re able.
Dementia service providers will also be present with relevant information for carers.
NB.1. This event is open to anyone living with Dementia and their carers and seeks to reduce barriers to nature connection and volunteering.
NB.2. Some activities will require walking along paved pathway. For attendees who are mobility impaired, please feel free to bring any walking support required, otherwise you are welcome to limit your visit to the nearby activities.
Delivered in partnership with The Barossa Council and Northern and Yorke Landscape Board, and supported by Dementia Australia.
17 April 2024, Wednesday, 9am-2pm - Community Environment Forum
We've been lucky to receive funding from the Northern and Yorke Landscape Board to organise the second Community Environment Forum with our Friends of Barossa Bushgardens.
Seven local environmental groups joined us at the first forum in 2023 and shared their successes, struggles, hopes and celebrated the work all volunteers are doing. We discussed opportunities and found ways to support each other.
At the next forum we will move forward to look at things like succession planning, which was one of the issues that were identified last year as well as working on opportunities to better collaborate with each other.
26 April 2024, Friday, 1pm-3pm - Nature Mandala Workshop
Come and join us for a relaxed afternoon, creating mandalas with natural materials including gravel, sand, mulch, bark, seed pods, leaves and flowers.
You'll be using your senses of touch to feel the different materials and smell to distinguish different leaves.
Suitable from 10 + years.
If the weather allows, we'll be in the gardens.
This workshop is accessible for people using a wheelchair.
1 May 2024, Wednesday, 9.30am-2pm - Youth Environment Day
Around 100 year 4/5/6 students will join us for a day of Aboriginal culture and environmental learning. Over several sessions, all students will rotate through, learning about Aboriginal culture/art, Tree and Soil Health, Plant ID, Sustainability, Food Security and planting in our Bio-Retention Basin.