Families are invited to this special event from PlantingSeeds’ B&B Highway.
Featuring local groups and organisations such as Goonellabah Tucki and Richmond Landcare groups, Lismore City Council, Ngulingah Local Aboriginal Land Council, Bangalow Koalas, Firewheel Nursery, Friends of the Koala nursery, Bee Native Australia and Sugarbag Bees.
Children can:
- Play the ‘Match the pollinator to the plant and food game’
- Win special prizes such as Pollinator Sleuth kits – perfect for awesome animal agents, plant private eyes and insect investigators!
- Receive free face paintings – transform into butterflies, birds, bees and more!
- Help plant 500 plants in the ground
- Help install a native beehive
- Make a home for a blue-banded bee to take home
- Participate in nature and citizen science walks led by Goonellabah Tucki Landcare expert Shaen Springall
For the adults:
- Brunch and coffee from The Little Chef and Zoom Coffee
Register here:
https://events.humanitix.com/the-b-and-b-highway-come-to-tucki-tucki-creek
PlantingSeeds is working with six schools in the Lismore area to establish ‘B&Bs’ – Bed and Breakfasts for Birds, Bees and Biodiversity. Thanks to QBE Insurance grant funding, Albert Park Public, Kadina High, Lismore High, Mullumbimby High, Dunoon Public and St Carthage’s will be planting over 1,000 plants, and will receive over 20 habitat boxes, three native stingless beehives and new sets of gardening tools. Around 400 students will participate in special indoor and outdoor biodiversity and citizen science lessons and activities with resources shared with families and the community.
The B&B Highway has over 160 B&B locations in NSW, Queensland and Victoria. The initiative has planted over 9,000 plants, educated more than 10,000 participants, and revegetated over 4000 square metres of green space.