Big Otway Tree Plant 2025

It’s the return of the Big Otway Tree Plant!

It’s definitely about tree planting, but perhaps even more about connection and building environmental hope with like-minded friends in a gorgeous setting: Cape Otway.

Please join us, together with Southern Otway Landcare Network, and the Marengo-Barham Catchment Landcare Group, as we bring back the Big Otway Tree Plant in 2025.

WHEN:  Saturday 2nd August, 9am until late.

WHERE:  Meet at the camp kitchen at Bimbi Park, Cape Otway

Kids are very welcome; dogs are not unfortunately. 

Where to stay

We’ve teamed up again with our lovely friends at Bimbi Park (thank you Frank and Katrina Fotinas!), which means you can turn your tree planting into a weekend’s camping retreat. All you have to do is contact Bimbi Park and say you’re joining the tree plant, and your camping will be FREE! Or for those less hardy souls, Bimbi Park has a fabulous selection of cabins you can choose from, at very reasonable prices.

On the day

Meet the CEC and Landcare crews at Bimbi’s camp kitchen at 9am with all the gear you’ll need to be out in August weather.  We’ll walk over some previous planting sites to see how they’re faring, then get our hands into the soil to plant some canopy trees.

Afterwards, dinner is ON US! We’ll share a meal (and hopefully a campfire!) as we discuss reasons to be hopeful for our ecosystems… one of them definitely being the return of the Big Otway Tree Plant!

This event is made possible by the Victorian Government through a Victorian Landcare grant.

All enquiries to the Marengo-Barham Catchment Landcare group:

marengobarhamcatchmentlandcare@gmail.com or andrea.landscare@soln.org