Get involved

Hold an Adelaide National Park City event

If you’re planning your next workshop, planting day, nature art exhibition, wildlife film screening or outdoor adventure, that’s a great way to contribute to Adelaide National Park City and get people connecting with nature. Get in touch about sharing your contribution and how we might help you tell your story too.

Collaborate with environmental volunteers

You could find a local environmental volunteering group and ask how you can help. Perhaps they need resources that a lot of people have in your neighbourhood, or they need more people like you and your community.

Already part of a group? Find out how you can get support through Green Adelaide.

Start a nature project – like a community garden, butterfly friendly garden or habitat friendly space

Green Adelaide has resources for big and small projects to connect with nature from your streets and community spaces:

• Get started with gardening – from selecting plants to planning a garden
• Not there yet? You could start small with a weed clearing working bee
• Be water smart with a raingarden
• Make nesting boxes your next DIY project (learn about the importance of tree hollows in the Green Adelaide seminar)
• Community groups might even be eligible for a grant. Check out some of Green Adelaide’s grants.

Share food

Whether you’re looking at starting a community garden or have a lot of neighbours and local residents growing food at home, connecting to share food is a great next step in connecting with nature and each other. Check out our story on getting started sharing food.

Something new – we’d love to discuss ideas

If you’d like to collaborate on an event or project, get in touch.

Have you ever thought about greening your sites, improving waste management or encouraging more nature connection activities in your workplace?

Why not start now? You could add a climate friendly garden to your outdoor space, green your verge with natives, schedule team days outdoors or make your workplace more sustainable. We’d love to share your story of how you’re contributing to Adelaide as a National Park City.

Get in touch to discuss ideas or share your story of how you contribute to the movement.

Download the 50 Ways and At Work posters for your site.

• Explore parks, gardens, forests and wetlands you haven’t visited before.
• Walk or cycle in a local park, national park, along a trail or around a reservoir.
• Relax with a picnic somewhere green and shady.
• Paddle a kayak on a reservoir, lake or the ocean.
• Discover the beautiful Botanic Gardens of South Australia at Mount Lofty, Wittunga or Adelaide.
• Grow food and meet others doing the same in a community garden or within your neighbourhood.
• Volunteer with a group and care for nature near you.
• Swim, play, wander, beachcomb and build sandcastles at the beach.
• Camp under the stars and see the sun set and rise.
• Enjoy events and activities in our many festivals throughout the year.
• Walk at night and experience the world differently.
• Snorkel around reefs and in our marine sanctuaries.
• Get involved in outdoor sports and fitness activities.

• Conserve energy by switching off lights and devices not in use, use LED lights and insulate your home.
• Refuse, reduce, reuse, repurpose, recycle and cut out plastics wherever possible.
• Support your local economy and reduce carbon emissions by purchasing local products and produce.
• Plant a garden in your yard, or add pot plants to your balcony, windowsill or living areas.
• Compost green waste into your garden for healthier soil.
• Make a birdbath, pond, lizard lounge or insect hotel.
• Attract native birds, insects and other animals to your garden with local native plants.
• Provide habitat and shelter such as bird and bat boxes.
• Work with your local council to care for your verge.
• Remove and replace weedy plants in your garden.
• Share your garden produce and ideas with neighbours.
• Get involved with citizen science projects near you.

• Discover the health and productivity benefits of working with natural outlooks and surroundings.
• Promote walking and outdoor meetings.
• Design buildings with access to nature for everyone.
• Grow plants on balconies, rooftops and walls.
• Engage in team building activities in nature.
• Share eco-friendly business ideas with your networks.
• Procure with care: reduce, reuse, repurpose, recycle.

If you would like to get your city involved, find out more and join the global National Park City movement. You can also get in touch to hear more about our story to give you ideas for your National Park City campaign.