Illawarra Intrepid Landcare

01/07/2025

Thanks so much to everyone who made it out to out plant bingo event in Heathcote National Park!! 🌱🌿

We filled out our bingo cards 🥳 And found so many beautiful and interesting plants, many of which were flowering even in the chilly winter ❄️

Comment if you can ID any of these plants we found on our walk and stay posted for more Intrepid events

27/06/2025

Clear your calendars for tomorrow arvo!!
(Sat June 28th 12-10pm)

Our friend Eden is hosting a bday fundraiser @ Principle Brewing

$2 from each beer will be donated to ORRCA (Marine Animal Research & Rescue)

Everyone is welcome!! (and so are extra donations). Stay posted for more info and volunteer and training opportunities with ORRCA.

We have our Plant Bingo event on 9am tomorrow morning so hopefully you can make a day of amazing events.

We hope to see you there! 🌅

24/06/2025

It’s wintery but the banksias are still flowering, so let’s go out and enjoy the limited sunshine! We are big fans of sandstone heath plants so to share the love, let’s go for a walk in Heathcote National Park together and do some fun plant ID activities. 🌿

We will challenge you to identify things and post them on iNaturalist, have some info on common local species, genuses, and families, and provide a bingo sheet with plant features to look out for. The idea is to make this fun ID practice for both beginners and pros. Message us if you have ideas or questions!

Meet at North Wollongong train station ≈ 9am to get the train together to Waterfall, or drive if you’d prefer. Keep an eye on fb and insta for exact train times!! 🚂

Wear comfy clothes, runners or walking boots, and a hat. Bring sunscreen, 1.5L water, a jacket, lunch and snacks. Please download iNaturalist and make an account if you don’t already have it!

Looking forward to the weekend… 🌱👀

22/05/2025

W**d removal and potential planting along the creek on-site which is an endangered Berkeley Brush ecosystem remnant, a brief tour of the working permaculture farm, and snacks. What better way to spend a Saturday morning?

Saturday May 31st, 9.30am. Park on Anna Ave and meet just inside the gate. Wear closed shoes, long pants and sleeves, a hat, and bring water.

Check out the Facebook event.

This event will be taking place on stolen Dharawal land. We acknowledge and pay our respects to the Elders past and present.

16/05/2025

THIS SUNDAY
This year, Illawarra Intrepid Landcare will be propagating and distributing 1000 fruit trees to local homes, in an aim to build community resilience and connection through improving access to good food.

Growing good food locally is important for our healthy, environment and economy, and begins to take back control of our food system from the Coles & Woolworths corporations.

We need your help, whether this is your first time propagating or you’re experienced. Come learn, or come teach others a trick or two!

We will also propagate some local natives, so feel free to bring seed you’d like to propagate.

We’ll put on lunch afterwards so please register via the following link to RSVP. You will be sent the workshop address after registering. The workshop location is accessible via public transport using the 65 bus route and is in Lake Heights.

Registration link: https: //forms.gle/g8EJJfPM5PYoKMgA7

08/05/2025

The beautiful patch of bush at Blue Divers park needs some extra hands to care for it, so let’s go help. After working away on the weeds and maybe planting some things, we’ll have a feed, social time, and some brainstorming. Come along, bring your friends!

Meet at in the park at the end of Jenner Ave.

Remember to wear long pants and sleeves, boots, hat and raincoat if needed. Bring water, and you can bring something to contribute to the bbq if you want :)

This event is taking place on unceded Dharawal land.

29/04/2025

Come join us on Saturday 4th of May!! We’re planting 1000 trees for Glossy Black Cockatoo habitat. You can also get around some of the wonderful landcare days being run in Wollongong & Shellharbour

🌱 More Landcare activity in the Illawarra 🌿

Our Wollongong and Shellharbour groups have another busy month of May ahead!

We are especially thrilled to welcome back Illawarra Intrepid Landcare for their planting day at Berkley on Saturday 4 May. Help them plant 1000s of feed trees for the endangered Glossy Black Cockatoo 👏

Illawarra Intrepid Landcare

28/04/2025

Come along this Sunday!! We’ve got lots to plant and need a dream team on the job. No experience necessary, just enthusiasm. Meet in the carpark at the end of Bedford st, 9.30am. Wear long pants and sleeves and a hat, and bring a water bottle and gardening gloves if you have them. Let’s do this!

13/04/2025

Over the past few weeks Illawarra Intrepid Landcare has been assisting the DCCEEW’s Saving our Species program. A few volunteers have been lucky enough to undertake Microbat surveying in the EEC of the Illawarra Lowlands Grassy Woodlands. A huge thank you to Dr. Beth Mott and Amy Rowles for having us along to help. We’ve been able to learn from them and observe many species of these tiny and interesting creatures close up. While helping record data that will help protect the bats and the ILGW long into the future. (Bats pictured in order: Lesser Long-Nosed Bat, Little Forest Bat, Gould’s Long-Eared Bat, Chocolate Wattled Bat, Bent Wing Bat, Lesser Long-Eared Bat) 🦇♥️

06/04/2025

On Saturday a group of Illawarra Intrepid Landcare volunteers helped out with bush regen efforts at Green Connect Farm. We helped to remove a patch of Bana Grass alongside the creek to make space for regeneration of the Berkeley Brush EEC. We also learnt about the farm and met some of its residents. With plenty more work to be done here, keep a look out for opportunities to come help on the farm in the future 🌱♥️