Nature Talks in the Library: What’s in a Seed, at Shellharbour City Library

Event Details

Delving into the world of local seeds, this nature talk explores the importance of collecting and growing local native plants. Growing local plays a pivotal role in successfully greening cities and fostering sustainable urban environments. Local seeds are uniquely adapted to the specific climatic and soil conditions of their regions, making them resilient and better suited to thrive.

This talk covers topics such as

• Identifying local plants and understanding their communities,
• Scout, survey, collect
• Seed collecting, processing and storage
• Seed propagation basics
• Required licencing to collect and propagate local plants

About Our Speaker:

Brooke Dwyer is an Environmental Technician who specialises in Shellharbour’s Conservation and Ecosystem Management. She has worked as a Bush Regeneration Officer at Shellharbour City Council for the past 16 years, and for the last 12 months, has used her extensive knowledge of the different vegetation communities in the Illawarra to develop a seed collecting program which supports and supplies Shellharbour City Councils Bush Regeneration Team with close to 100,000 locally sourced and grown native tubestock.