Weekly GroCentre Sessions

It’s Makuru so we are in the planting season. We run weekly sessions at our Ascot nursery to keep all the plants healthy, propagate seeds, maintain the racks and prepare for future plantings. Come along and help out, learn skills and contribute new ones. Get in touch if this sounds like something you’d like to do. No need to commit every week.

2024 Planting Dates

Put these dates in your calendar - it’s time to get our hands dirty and put seedlings in the ground!

If you would like to come along, for each planting date you will find a link to a page where you can book a “ticket”. This is free and purely for our informational purposes, so we know how many people will be coming.

October 20th: Point Reserve Rushes, 9am
Facebook Event

All tools are provided.
All ages are welcome, even your kids are welcome to come along, you can make it a family event!
Refreshments (nibbles and cuppas) are provided for all volunteers.
Planting sessions start at 9am and most wrap up around noon, sometimes earlier.

Please ensure that you BYO:

• Gloves

• Bottle of water

• Mozzie spray & sun cream

• Hat

• If you have gumboots, it's a good idea to bring these along just in case, especially if its been raining in the days preceding the planting.

Let us know if you wish to attend, either via Email or by registering for one of the above events and we will be sure to keep you up to date with all the details.

Donate your Containers for Change to us!

BPG now has a code so that you can choose to donate your ‘Containers for Change’ money when you recycle at the Moojebing Street Exchange Depot in Bayswater. This will help us continue our work revegetating Bassendean's reserves and foreshores. More information here.

Nature Conservancy
restoring habitats in Bassendean

The Nature Conservancy, with the assistance of BPG, has installed coir matting along part of the riverbank to restore habitat that will encourage the Black Pygmy Mussels to thrive again in the Derrbarl Yerrigan. Read more about this in post below. Opportunities will arise to monitor the matting as 1000s of tiny mussels spat begin to grow over the coming months.