The community is invited to join a tree planting and sustainability festival at Aintree Reserve next weekend in celebration of National Tree Day.
The event is hosted by Woodlea estate and local environmental non-profit group We Love Aintree.
The event forms part of a Woodlea sustainability campaign, through which the organisation plans to plant 10,000 native species across the volcanic grassland of the Kororoit Creek corridor this year.
At the upcoming National Tree Day event, We Love Aintree and Woodlea will plant 5000 native grasses and saltbush on the rocky knoll at Aintree, and in the lead up to the event, We Love Aintree is on track to have planted another 5000 plants through its revegetation projects.
The event will also include sustainability-focused art and activities, including a native animal artwork display by students from Aintree Primary School, a free sausage sizzle by Caroline Springs RSL, free coffee, a native plant nursery fundraiser and a wildlife photography display by local photographer Pete Cornell.
We Love Aintree founding director Jono Ingram said National Tree Day each July is the organisation’s biggest annual community event.
“Our area doesn’t naturally have a lot of trees – we’re open grasslands part of the Western Volcanic Plain, and so we’ll be planting two species of Wallaby Grass and three species of saltbush,” Mr Ingram said.
The event will be hosted at Aintree Reserve on Sunday, July 27 from 9am–2pm, with a safety briefing at 9am sharp.
Children are welcome with adult supervision.
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