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
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.
Plant the seeds of a nourishing tea ritual as you blend your own custom herbal tea and explore the healing power of botanicals.
Explore a small property revegetation project at Gawler Belt and seed some ideas for your own project.
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
Discover native foods, herbs and cooking methods with artist Kelly Wallace and wellbeing practioner Nakita Charlton.
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.
Discover the hidden music of the landscape and weave your voice into a communal song of place.
Explore Brinkworth Reserve with Sandy, mapping seeds, shadows and hidden wonders. Turn your discoveries into art, painted words and a story 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...
A gentle space to hold and honour ecological grief, together. Surrounded by beauty, we can reflect on and share sorrows, with reverence for the natural world.
Step into the wild side of Alexandrina, discover our amazing native birdlife, and become a citizen scientist.
Join Alanna Sapwell of Esmay for an immersive shared lunch with cocktails - celebrating the growers, producers and custodians shaping the future of our food.
Be part of the recovery! Discover practical strategies and guidance to restore our beautiful land and waterways surrounding Kadlitpari / Gawler River.
Botanical Skin Care. Creating your own Healing Creams made from Nature's Natural Plant Base and Oils.
Workshop will guide participants using the basketry techniques of two-ply string, twining and weaving with seeds, sticks and natural fibres from local gardens.
Discover our beautiful, hidden community garden and build an insect hotel to take home for your garden.
Get creative, learn the secrets of healthy seedlings, and paint and plant your own edible seed bowl to take home at Paint and Sow.
Explore the natural world through intimate mark making using simple materials.
A panel discussion with environmental philosopher Prof Glenn Albrecht, architect of the Symbiocene, and stellar guests moderated by Dr Susan Close.
Walk with us through the former course of Hawkers Creek through Glanville, following the social, cultural and ecological history of this now disappeared creek.
Now in its seventh year the 'Be Natural Poetry Slam' is open to either compete or to simply watch and enjoy.
Explore the Rosewater Loop and imagine a greener future through creativity, conversation and the small seeds of community and environmental change.
Can Indigenous knowledge reshape intercultural exchange & climate action? Join Narungga and Kaurna artist Jacob Boehme & Aunty Lynette Newchurch to learn how.
Join us for the SAARG Corroboree as part of Nature Festival 2026, inspired by this year's theme: Seeds. Come along to share stories and build connections,
Join an Auslan interpreted tour to discover how Greening Rosewater Loop is transforming the Gillman Yards through community led environmental action.
Birds & Bingo is back for its fourth season at Nature Festival, with even more birds, and more bingo!
Music & philosophy for nature
A cross-cultural art collaboration for Nature Festival, creating paintings that explore our deep connection to nature, Country, and the cosmos.
Experience our wildlife in the wild
'The Seed of Life’, a group art exhibition exploring the sacred seed as a universal symbol of creation, renewal and connection.
Explore the avian world through flute music with Coruscalia Collective
Take a walk through beautiful swamp, creekline and woodland country on the Fleurieu Peninsula guided by bird and bat experts, followed by brunch / supper.
Discover the native birdlife of Pakapakanthi / Victoria Park on a guided walk through its beautiful wetlands and woodlands, led by Birds SA & ReBird the Ranges.
Walk & talk with local experts on irongrass native grassland, open mallee woodland, Levi Creek waterholes. Info on Ngadjuri involvement. Morning tea.
Join us for a restorative journey through the beautiful landscapes of Woodhouse Adventure Park, where nature becomes both your guide and your teacher.
Join Sandhya Mulchandani to shape clay islands as we think with our hands and reflect on Australia’s 8,222 vulnerable island environments.
EV curious?
What can labyrinths reveal to us as we engage and interact with them? What secrets have they known on their journeys across time? What knowledge do they hold?
Journey along the coastline with a Ngarrindjeri-Kaurna guide as you explore ancestral stories and cultural knowledge on this unique cultural hike.
Join us for a morning of community action and nature connection.
Walking tours, displays, native coastal plant sales, and hands-on activities for you to connect with nature in this rare dune ecosystem in Adelaide's west.
Hear stories from the field and discover how seed banking is helping secure a future for South Australia's threatened flora.
A conversation between artists and scientists exploring how creativity, systems thinking and environmental science help communities navigate ecological change
Take a seed-sized peek inside the South Australia Seed Conservation Centre to uncover how the team safe-guards threatened flora for future generations
Pods are a holding vessel for the seeds within, a space of nurturing and protection for potential life.
Community celebration of seeds at Adelaide Botanic Garden!
The world around us is always communicating. Ecosomatics allows the wisdom of the more than human to guide dynamic relationships between humans & nature.
You're invited on a rural ramble out to Robertstown as we host Wandering Tales to hear some local yarns & enjoy a light afternoon tea.
a songwriting practise to deepen connection with the natural world - facilitated by local singer-songwriters Naomi Keyte and Jamie Lena Kerslake,
Join us for a relaxed outdoor women's circle where we'll move our bodies, share stories, enjoy creative activities and connect over a picnic in nature.
Storytellers sow beautiful seeds: seeds of growth, hope, reflection, creativity and learning. Join us for the love of a good story - and afternoon tea!
Harp Among the Gum Trees: A pleasant Sunday afternoon of live harp music in a natural setting.
Learn how the power of the moon can have lasting impact on the way you manage projects, people and your life.
Filmmaker Sophie Hyde joins marine scientists, conservationists and creatives to explore ecological crisis, restoration and the making of a new feature film.
An embodied ritual to plant the seeds of renewal within us following the loss of many trees. A new dance performance by Cinzia Schincariol and Marcus Louend.
Enjoy a late afternoon of shorebird viewing at Thompson Beach
Transformative music, dance and song under the sunset in Carrick Hill's glorious gardens, featuring the Bowerbird Collective with Eric Avery.
Share Egg & Orchid Time with Burrandies Aboriginal Corporation and Friends of Seaweed South East. Understand the value of seaweed in Spring to migrating birds. Record seasonal changes.
Discover 20 unique trees across the City of Burnside. Each tag identifies the tree species and shares interesting facts. It's good tree fun!
Try your hand at still-life drawing native flora in our free Art Studio activity.
Take a self -guided tour of AGSA and discover artists and works that explore the theme of SEED.
Through small, repeated acts of repair on degraded land, a form of quiet activism emerges.
Turrangka…in the shadows surveys over a decade of James Tylor’s practice and brings together a selection of his unique photographs and Kaurna cultural objects.
Experience a captivating photographic exhibition by The Wilderness Society SA, showcasing South Australia's remote wilderness and why it deserves protection.
Free self guided exploratory activities in an endemic community space known as Wakwakurnaku Wirra, Children's Forest
A bush garden with an extensive range of species demonstrating the amazing and varied foliage, form and flowers found in Australian plants.
The delicate fresh green leaves of the deciduous trees are emerging and beneath them, spring bulbs and natives in flower.
The Commute is a multidisciplinary, site and community-responsive project which draws deeply on the 15+ years of the artist living near the Port Noarlunga coast
Integrating her fieldwork and studio-based processes, Gardener explores local birds and their song stories in the Onkaparinga region.
Investigating the human condition and our fragile relationship to the natural, built and personal environments are core themes in Ambridge’s work.
Be part of a world where art and nature merge: experience multi-disciplinary works from Australian and International artists.
Join the Cleland Team and learn about the important role volunteers play in propagating and nurturing native plants to maintain and enhance our environment.
Hear from Sophie Hyde, film director, writer, producer and artist, in conversation with Leigh Robb, Curator Contemporary Art.
Join us for a special Story Time in the beautiful Netley Community Garden. Enjoy stories, songs and nature play with Mel and Pamela.
Join author Kristin Martin as she reads her new book, Belle and Bea’s Beautiful New Home and discover how bilbies help seeds to grow.
Her Excellency the Honourable Frances Adamson AC, Governor of South Australia, and Mr Rod Bunten will host their final last Lunch on the Lawns at Govt House.
Exhibitions, and community engagement events exploring emergence.
A living laboratory, this garden is packed with Kangaroo Island native plants, including many threatened species.
Step outside and slow down with Start, in an en plein air program connecting creativity, community and the natural world.
Sculptures and works exploring the 'gestalt' of seeds and flora in its myriad of forms.
Hear from an AGSA curator and an expert from the Nature Festival community as they discuss all things seed.
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.
Join us for a playful and relaxed adventure creating art in the beautiful nature of the Memorial Gardens.
Two artists come together to co-create art exploring connection to nature, Country, community, and the cosmos.
From seed to ancient grass tree, this miniature landscape celebrates regeneration, resilience and the diversity of Australian flora.
