Plant a seed in the heart of the city at Seedling Exchange. Take it home or leave it to grow in a living pavilion shaped by thousands of small acts of care.
Community celebration of seeds at Adelaide Botanic Garden!
Discover the beauty of Michael Perry Botanic Reserve on a guided walk exploring its unique natural environment, historic significance, and stunning trees.
Explore vibrant botanical folk art with gouache. Create colourful floral designs inspired by modern folk artists and take home a unique handmade piece.
Get messy with Climbing Tree’s mud kitchen! This playful activity encourages children to explore natural materials, use their creativity and have plenty of messy fun.
Discover Aboriginal art through a fun and creative hands-on workshop for children aged 3 to 8 years.
Ideas and activities to engage students in nature across multiple curriculum areas.
A moving and embodied journey through human evolution
Hear from an AGSA curator and an expert from the Nature Festival community as they discuss all things seed.
Get hands-on with paper recycling and take home your own plantable seed paper to grow.
Join Bruce Pascoe as he unravels the ideas that shaped our world—and asks what we might recover, reimagine and grow differently for the future.
Join us for a special Nature Festival screening of the award-winning Australian documentary Floodland, presented by Adelaide University’s Environment Institute.
Come on a 'Dive into Underwater Forests’ of the Fleurieu Peninsula.
Discover 4 community garden sites across West Torrens, with time to connect, explore and enjoy light refreshments along the way.
Come and Try days are a chance to give bushcare a go for yourself and see how you can make a difference in your local patch.
Learn pot decorating, seed sowing and plant care, then stay for our Sowing the Seeds workshop at 11am to continue the gardening journey.
Join us to play, learn and plant along Fourth Creek, you too can become a creek geek! Suited for children aged 5-11, younger siblings welcome.
Create and play in nature through art! Sensory nature connection activities to inspire the seeds of wonder and wellbeing for children and families!
Dive into an inspiring hands-on teacher PD exploring marine parks, ocean science and engaging classroom resources that will grow ocean literacy.
An award winning documentary, set in the industrial town of Whyalla, this is an intimate portrait of Dr John Croall, a Glaswegian immigrant to Australia.
Join us for the Climate, Community and Resilience Forum & Expo, a free Nature Festival event bringing together researchers and community organisations.
Join a weaver to learn traditional weaving techniques, gain cultural knowledge, and develop practical weaving skills while creating your own basket.
Join us for a fun river-themed making session for kids! Discover our unique local river creatures, get creative, and learn why healthy rivers matter.
Wander this unique urban forest path and discover the native plant corridor created along the way. Learn firsthand from the people who care for this place.
Celebrate Kidtober with the PPWCC by immersing yourself in the world of nature through sensory and free play activities. On Nukunu land.
Discover the remarkable journey from seed to thriving Botanic Gardens plant in this special behind-the-scenes tour of the Mount Lofty Botanic Garden nursery!
Join us for a curated sensory play session designed to connect little ones with the natural world in a calm, engaging, and developmentally rich environment.
Guided tour of the SA Seed Conservation Centre!
Let your imagination wander into the wonderful world of nature in a fun and interactive creative writing workshop!
An intergenerational activity with the Prospect Community Garden making a DIY herb bowl with children.
A family-friendly activity learning about native seed germination, understanding the care required for early seedling growth.
Join us for an intro session on all things wicking beds! Level up your vegie garden at home with this low water growing approach.
Join Nature Play SA for a Family Bird Appreciation Walk as we walk beneath the trees, looking and listening for birds and hearing stories.
From remarkable dispersal strategies to hidden dormancy mechanisms, every seed has a story and has evolved unique ways to maximise their chance of survival
Join Jules Schiller (891 ABC Adelaide) for Year 3 of Mosstermind: this time it's a Seedy focus at our favourite venue The Gov
891 ABC Adelaide’s Mornings invites you to be part of a special live broadcast at the Marine Discovery Centre exploring Adelaide’s unsung local nature heroes.
Spend a rewarding morning connecting with nature through bird watching and bushcare in beautiful bushland.
Visit an urban bushland to try out some hands-on bushcare volunteer skills and join a bird expert to look for threatened birds that live here.
Join us together with Nature Play SA on Thursday 8 October at Myponga Reservoir Reserve.
Create your own unique nature-inspired reusable tote bag in this fun and creative workshop.
Join a guided walking tour of Barker Inlet Wetlands with Green Adelaide Coastal Conservation Officer Danny Millbanks.
Take a short, guided walk along Glen Osmond Creek and learn about the plants along the way, from the people who care for this peaceful green corridor.
Join us for a playful and relaxed adventure creating art in the beautiful nature of the Memorial Gardens.
Join us at Minlagawi Gum Flat to celebrate Nature Festival SA here on Guuranda (Yorke Peninsula)!!
A day exploring the SEEDS of culture, artistic skill and practices, how they can grow civic imagination and rehearse a liveable future with Creative Recovery.
Enjoy a guided walk by a local resident to discover the beautiful and historic trees within the suburbs.
More than a nature workshop, Seeds of Sunshine helps little hearts bloom through stories, creativity and moments of wonder in nature.
Create your own colours from nature!
This talk will explore the gardening history and its impact on the fledgling society in South Australia.
A creative experience. Make unique nature-inspired artworks. Through observation, pattern and design, participants will explore the beauty of seeds and pods.
Celebrate nature with stories: an Aboriginal Dreaming story, use of native plants in our garden , our hopes for nature, Trees for Life, activities for all ages.
Get outdoors, explore, create and connect with nature in this school holiday adventure.
Join, native bee enthusiast, children's author, and President of the Friends of Dry Creek Trail, Shane Meyer, for a fascinating talk ' Be there for Native Bees
Slow down and tune into the world of birds. Walk beneath the trees, look and listen, hear their stories and discover what makes them so unique.
Find calm in nature with a guided mindfulness meditation and live harp beneath the gum trees of Hazelwood Park.
Engaging discussion from a panel of artists and designers who use flora as their key creative medium.
Nature Trivia is back for 2026! Bring along your team of twitchers, flora fanatics and nature lovers and help raise money for some incredible foundations.
Join us for stunning photography and stories of hope for SA’s wilderness, and discover how we can protect these vital lands, waters, and wildlife together.
Join Southern Cultural Immersion for a unique Introduction to Aboriginal Art experience.
Seed mandala workshop hosted by Alan Shepard.
Nature Bike Tour - Salisbury Unity Park Wetlands to Foresters Forest
A day out collecting waterbugs with water scientists to help us learn more about the health of our rivers.
Discover ochre’s cultural significance, explore traditional Aboriginal symbols, and create your own artwork to take home!
Cultural events & Festivals must change in the shift to reduce fossil fuel emissions and address Climate Crisis? Can we grow sustainably and if so, how?
Walk with Kaurna Kardla through the Adelaide Parklands and discover how cultural fire and Traditional Knowledge continue to care for and regenerate Country.
A fun interactive activity for children to help our Hooded Plovers breed successfully on our local beaches. Take away a gift bag with lots of goodies!
Join Steve Walker from FrogWatch SA to learn about our fascinating local frog species!
Join one of Carrick Hill's expert gardeners for an exclusive tour around the stunning Carrick Hill gardens.
Journey along the Ngangki Parri (Onkaparinga River) with a Ngarrindjeri-Kaurna facilitator to uncover connections between Country, waterways and practices.
Let's turn food waste around!
Participate in a workshop involving native seeds while in conversation with Karl Winda Telfer, Burka-Senior Man, and environmental conservationist Claire Lock.
Seeds don’t just grow into plants – sometimes they are used to paint with too!
This poetry workshop is about sowing new seeds, hearing nature speak in her different tongues. Growing into the person you know you want to become.
Discover the Adelaide Botanic Garden through touch, scent and sound in this immersive multisensory plant identification tour.
The Southern Flinders: A Celebration of Wildlife and Landscapes is a non-fiction book by award-winning writer and photographer Dr Annette Marner.
Explore paths and projections where nature and digital technology converge, tracing the germination of creative ideas from seed to renewal.
Learn how seeds, science, community and long-term monitoring are working together to restore nature for the future.
From seed to ancient grass tree, this miniature landscape celebrates regeneration, resilience and the diversity of Australian flora.
Music & philosophy for nature
Get down and dirty with Nature helping bushland regenerate in Belair National Park.
Explore native urban greening projects in the City of Holdfast Bay that demonstrate the transformation that can be created from a handful of seeds.
Join local ecologists for a morning walk through Browns Reserve, 45 hectares of woodland reserve with a mix of remnant and revegetated habitat.
Learn about the theory and evidence-based practices to develop or deepen your connection to nature, and participate in a hands-on onsite bushcare activity.
Commemorate 10 years of the Adelaide International Bird Sanctuary and learn more about this globally significant coastal area
Plant the seeds of a nourishing tea ritual as you blend your own custom herbal tea and explore the healing power of botanicals.
Enjoy a fun mental challenge? Learn how to navigate our local green spaces when you discover orienteering at Thorndon Park. All ages and fitness levels welcome!
Featuring vibrant vege plots, greenhouse, wicking beds. Information sessions about growing and using herbs, native seed and cutting propagation. Coffee and BBQ lunch will be available.
Discover wildlife apartments, the wood-wide-web, and trees that existed before Adelaide. A guided walk through Hazelwood Park.
Join New Zealand artist Dr Tabatha Forbes and create elegant botanical drawings inspired by specimens from the beautiful gardens of Carrick Hill.
Come along to a family friendly event focused on Orienteering games for younger kids. Children learn basic navigational skills through different activities.
See Ballara through a new lense with photographer Steph Ball and watercolour artist Rachelle Plazeriano
This workshop invites participants to experiment with different approaches to mark-making and to see drawing as a way of slowing down and looking closely.
Maze Orienteering is a fast, fun *and FREE!* way to test your navigation skills. Choose a map, walk or run - suits all ages and fitness levels.
Explore Brinkworth Reserve with Sandy, mapping seeds, shadows and hidden wonders. Turn your discoveries into art, painted words and a story of place.
Discover the hidden music of the landscape and weave your voice into a communal song of place.
Look down and discover our critically endangered native grasslands with therapeutic horticulturalist and artist Emma Lewellyn.
Take part in an art workshop led by Meintangk artist Tanya Hartman
Join Zaachariaha Fielding and Bel Ryan on World Mental Health Day to pause, explore, reflect, and create.
Sharing seed stories and sorting seeds, to help us remember to tend what matters...
