Past events

Plant Sales at Big Weekend

Sustainable Living event

Saturday, March 25, 2023 at 10:00 AM – March 27, 2023
Botanical

BOTANICAL is our venue for all things - BOTANICAL during The Big Weekend of Sustainable Living Ideas!

We are blessed with amazing native plants - and equally blessed to have so many amazing nurseries and organisations who will be there to sell you plants, answer your questions and, in some cases, give away a freebie!

Make sure you visit both venues and take home a few nice things for the garden!

Make a basket at BIG Weekend

Sustainable Living event

Saturday, March 25, 2023 at 10:00 AM – March 27, 2023
Botanical

The volunteers from Nipaluna Nursery have a jam packed program ready for you at The BIG Weekend. Visit their stall and get involved in the basket weaving using native poa grass. Gyan will show you how!

Propagate plants at THe BIG Weekend

Sustainable Living event

Saturday, March 25, 2023 at 10:00 AM – March 27, 2023
Botanical

One of the many activities Nipaluna Nursery will hosting at The BIG Weekend of Sustainable Living Ideas are workshops to show willing participants how to propagate plants. Be sure to visit their stall at Botanical between 10am and 4pm March 25 and 26.

Take a pant home in a tshirt bag

Sustainable Living event

Saturday, March 25, 2023 at 10:00 AM – March 27, 2023
Botanical

Nipaluna Nursery is anticipating that you might buy a number of the wonderful plants on offer at The BIG Weekend - so they will be available with their handy scissors and a pile of old tshirts, to magically make you a bag to carry your newly found flora home.

How sustainable is that!

Taste salt bush chips

Sustainable Living event

Saturday, March 25, 2023 at 10:00 AM – March 27, 2023

If you are going to grow salt bush and native spinach - you might as well know how to cook with them! Let the wonderful volunteers from Nipaluna Nursery show you how to make chips and frittate from these 2 easy to grow native plants.

Drop in to see them at Botanical on March 25 and 26 - and have a taste!

seed bomb workshop

Sustainable Living event

Saturday, March 25, 2023 at 10:00 AM
Botanical

Learn how to make a seed bomb to lob into your garden! Pop over to the Nipaluna Nursery stall and get your hands dirty!!!

BIG WEEKEND PRESENTATIONS

Sustainable Living event

Saturday, March 25, 2023 at 10:00 AM – March 27, 2023
Brighton Civic Centre & Botanical

Bush Tucker Workshops

Sustainable Living event

Saturday, March 25, 2023 at 10:30 AM
The Botanical, 2A Eddington St, Bridgewater

Kitana Mansell, a proud young palawa women representing Palawa Kipli, will present and share her cultural food and cooking knowledge with her native edible plants on show..

Each one-hour bush tucker workshop focuses on educating people on cultural native bush foods (Tasmanian Aboriginal food).

Kitana will then offer light native food/ drinks to showcase ways we can be more sustainable with our local ingredient.

The importance of supporting Aboriginal businesses, who are the owners of these bush foods and how her ancestors who survived and thrived of these food resources for tens of thousands of years and still do today.

Bookings are essential as classes are small. Workshops run throughout the weekend. Don't miss out!

$50 per person

For more details and to book your place at https://events.humanitix.com/bush-tucker-workshop

No Dig Vege Garden with Hannah Moloney

Sustainable Living event

Saturday, March 25, 2023 at 11:00 AM
The Botanical, 2A Eddington Rd, Bridgewater

Join Gardening Australia and Goodlife Permaculture's Hannah Moloney in this FREE one hour workshop at The Botanical, 2A Eddington Rd Bridgewater.

Hannah will start the weekend of 50th birthday celebrations at The BIG Weekend of Sustainable Living Ideas, showing us all how to grow our own veges with minimal physical effort! And this can be used in even the smallest of backyards!

No bookings needed - just come along!

Recycling hub

Sustainable Living event

Saturday, March 25, 2023 at 11:00 AM
Brighton Civic Centre Breakout Room 2

Hear about this award-winning initiative

The Recycling Hub

presented by Milca Perez from Living Waratah

Saturday March 25 at 11am

A FREE presentation at The BIG Weekend of Sustainable Living Ideas