Riverina Highlands Landcare Network + Nursery

05/09/2026

Not even the rain could keep you away! Thanks so much for your support and getting down to the nursery today 🥰 Back to regular hours next week, but open again on Saturday 3rd October 9-12. See you then!

04/09/2026

🌱 We’re open today!

Missed us during the week? Come and visit the nursery between 9 am and 12 pm.

Whether you’re planting trees, refreshing the garden or looking for a little advice, drop in and see how we can help.

📍 5 Gocup Road, Tumut

See you among the plants! 🌿

03/09/2026

🎉🌿 SPRING INTO SATURDAYS! 🌿🎉

You asked and Rachel listened!

This spring, the nursery will open on the first Saturday of every month, giving our weekday-busy friends more opportunities to visit, browse and stock up on beautiful plants. 🌸🛒

📍 5 Gocup Road, Tumut
🕘 9 am to 12 pm

Save the dates:
🌱 Saturday 5 September
🌼 Saturday 3 October
🪴 Saturday 7 November

Bring a friend, wander through the nursery and enjoy a relaxed morning among the plants.

Your spring garden starts here! 🌼🐝

02/09/2026

🌊 Flowing Through the Highlands: A World Rivers Day Film Night

In partnership withRefreshing Rivers -healthy water, healthy land Riverina Highlands, Riverina Highlands Landcare Network invites you to celebrate World Rivers Day with a free screening of River.

Narrated by Willem Dafoe, this breathtaking documentary explores the beauty, power and importance of the waterways that connect our landscapes, communities and stories.

📅 Thursday, 24 September
🕡 6.30 pm to 8.30 pm
📍 Tumut River Brewing Co
🎟️ Free, with limited places

Book your seat:
👉 https://bit.ly/highlands-rivers
This event is also supported by Riverina Local Land Services and the Landcare Enabling program Murrumbidgee Landcare Inc

31/08/2026

☀️🌱 THE FIRST DAY OF SPRING HAS ARRIVED! 🌱☀️

It’s time to roll up your sleeves and spring into homegrown veggies.

Our veggie seedlings are only $2 each, making it easy to start a backyard harvest of your own. Plant them in a veggie patch, raised bed or sunny pots and look forward to fresh produce grown just steps from your kitchen.

Add companion plants and pollinator-attracting flowers for a colourful, productive garden buzzing with life. 🐝🌸

📍 Riverina Highlands Landcare Nursery
5 Gocup Road, Tumut
🕘 Monday to Thursday, 8.30 am to 4 pm

Plant today and enjoy the rewards of homegrown this season! 🍅🥕🥬

31/08/2026

🌸🐝 SPRING INTO PLANTING FOR POLLINATORS! 🦋🌿

A buzzing garden starts with the right plants. Add a colourful mix of native groundcovers, flowering shrubs and small trees to provide food and shelter for bees, butterflies, hoverflies and other helpful insects.

Even a few flowering plants in a garden bed or pot can make a difference. Choose different shapes, colours and flowering times to keep your garden alive with activity throughout the seasons.

📍 Riverina Highlands Landcare Nursery
5 Gocup Road, Tumut
🕘 Open Monday to Thursday, 8.30 am to 4 pm

Pop in and let us help you build a beautiful garden that supports our powerful local pollinators. 🌼🐝

28/08/2026

Have you secured your spot yet?

Don't miss this inaugural event bringing together leading conservation experts, researchers and practitioners to showcase innovative approaches to biodiversity conservation and recovery.

Among the 15 presentations is the extraordinary story of the first-ever discovery of Leadbeater’s Possum in NSW.

Wild futures forum - speaker spotlight: Fred Ford 🐾

What happens when one of Australia's rarest mammals appears where no one expected?

Join Fred Ford, Senior Threatened Species Officer with the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, at the Wild futures: Protecting the Riverina Highlands - Threatened species forum as he shares the remarkable story behind the discovery of the elusive Leadbeater's possum in .

Don't miss your chance to hear this extraordinary story and connect with researchers, landholders, community members and conservation practitioners from across the region.

📅 Thursday 17 September 2026
📍 Adelong
🎟️ Tickets on sale now: https://bit.ly/3U7ebYQ

17/08/2026

Our $5 plant sale continues! It's been such a success we've added a few more species, including Callistemon, Acacia and Myoporum.
No holds, so pop down and check them out!

Where? 5 Gocup Road, Tumut
When? Monday to Thursday 8.30 - 4.00

12/08/2026

📣📣📣Exciting news!

Starting this week, the nursery is now open Monday to Thursday.

To celebrate, our amazing volunteers are running a special sale on selected medium and large pots.

Usually $12 and $15, now reduced to just $5 each.

Available species include, but are not limited to:

Sugar Gum
Blackwood
Red Stemmed Wattle
Silver Wattle

A great opportunity to stock up on native plants for your garden, property or revegetation project.

Open Monday to Thursday. While stocks last!

31/07/2026

Please note that our Nursery Coordinator will be on leave from 3–5 August. During this time, our volunteers will be opening the nursery and can assist with most plant-related enquiries. For technical advice or plant orders, please visit us the following week.