coastcare groups

The Drive Towards Urban Landcare

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Initiated as a sub-group of Phillip Island Landcare in 2003 as a response to challenges and issues including; rapid and escalating population growth, development pressures on rural land, increasing and unsustainable resource use and invasions of pest plants and animals from urban areas to remnants, revegetated reserves and rural land.

​Today there are over 130 Urban Landcare members

working to minimize their impact on the local environment

and enjoying the same membership benefits as rural

Landcare members.

Urban Landcare aims to: 

1.  Promote the use of indigenous plants in urban

landscaping via; Indigenous demonstration gardens,

open garden days, Annual Garden Awards and vouchers

for indigenous plants.

2.  Raise awareness of Landcare issues to the changing

population via; A Sustainable Living guide for the Bass

Coast Shire produced in partnership with the Bass Coast

Shire Council, Production of educational flyers on

responsible pet ownership and urban foxes with the

Phillip Island Nature Parks.
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3.  Host the popular Practical Sustainability Seminar Series. Through hosting informative seminar and workshop days sharing ideas and practical tools, participants gain a real world understanding of how to adopt environmentally sustainable principles in their own homes.

 

Seminars have included: Sustainable Living, Energy Efficiency, Waterwise Gardening, Indigenous Garden Design, Invasive Garden Plants, Redirecting rain and grey water, Frogs of Phillip Island, Habitat gardening and many more.