TOP END NATIVE ECO-FAIR & PLANT SALE

Tuck into some bush tucker, encounter native wildlife or browse a huge array of Top End native plants – including 2000 for FREE!

🌱 Learn about pruning, planting, mulching, irrigation & pest management, converting thirsty lawns to low maintenance native gardens, or how to bring more wildlife to your backyard.

🌱 Grab some free plants at City of Darwin’s Native Plant Giveaway (0830-11.00am). Or purchase from a range of 150+ native species, in many sizes, at heavily discounted prices.

🌱 Join interpretative walks on botanical and Larrakia plant uses, or have a yarn with ABC Radio Darwin’s Saturday Gardener (0830-11.00am).

🌱 Put your backyard bugs under the microscope, test your soils, book a free home garden biodiversity visit.

🌱 Identify your plants and weeds, learning which is friend or foe – with help from native botanical gurus.

🌱 Learn about native wildlife; from butterflies & birds to snakes & possums. Or sample some native bee ‘sugar bag’ honey.

🌱 Visit Kids Corner for STEM activities, botanical laser labs, microscope fun, arts and crafts or an Eco-Quiz scavenger hunt!

🌱 Sample Native Botanicals at the on-site Gin Bar. Or just lounge on a bean bag with a bite to eat and cool drink, savouring the serenity while listening to passionate local experts at Speakers Corner.

NOTE: Please BYO reusable cups, containers and cutlery to minimise waste & Eco-Footprint of event🙏

Enhancing community love for Top End native biodiversity, ecosystems and habitats; with experts in environmental science, botany, zoology, microbiology, ecology and social sciences.

The Top End Native Eco-Fair. Jingili Water Gardens. Saturday August 23rd. 8.30am-3.00pm.