For over 20 years, volunteers have been looking after Westgate Park – planting, weeding, mulching, cleaning up and general gardening. Our main work days are Mondays and Wednesdays but we have now resumed volunteering in the Park on the third Sunday of ea...
Category: Planting days
Big ACF effort
Members of the Australian Conservation Foundation – Macnamara Chapter – are very good friends of Westgate Biodiversity, regularly pitching in at Westgate Park. On Saturday they pulled out a massive pile of weeds from a part of the Park alongside th...
1000 new plants at Lagoon Reserve
Huge thanks to the Citywide organisation for helping rescue an indigenous-plant project in Port Melbourne’s Lagoon Reserve. Plans for an annual day of community planting had been cancelled for a second time this year due to Covid restrictions, when Cityw...
Our latest project
The new toilet block was very welcome and we are pleased with how it turned out. It’s now been landscaped and this week we mulched and planted the garden beds. Many thanks to the volunteers who did the work – it’s looking splendid!
National Tree Day(s) 27 & 29 July
Westgate Biodiversity: Bili Nursery & Landcare and 77 eager volunteers planted over 2000 indigenous plants at three events to celebrate National Tree Day: Friday. City of Melbourne staff, their Citizen Foresters plus 14 volunteers put in more than 500 un...