Knox Environment Society
Knox Environment Society Objectives
Objectives
To actively promote sustainability within Knox and the wider community.
To engage in projects and activities that monitor, protect and enhance the environment.
To work with stakeholders including government, the community and business to advance environmental and sustainability policies, programs and practices.
Our motto: "Principle before profit."
KES NURSERY
News and Events
Spring Garden Party Festival
Knox Environment Society Nursery
here at 1010 Burwood Highway, Ferntree Gully
Saturday 12 October
10am - 4pm
Spring is well and truly in the air! And we want to celebrate with you. We are excited to extend an invitation to our Spring Garden Party where a broad range of indigenous plants will be on offer - groundcovers, grasses, shrubs, trees and ferns.
But there's more -
Take the opportunity to enjoy Garden 'know-how' Workshops, Presentations, Displays and Activities and learn more about the groups featured.
· Knox Friends Groups – caring for our wild places
· Treefern Potters – ceramic artists and pottery sales
· Knox Repair Café – sharpening and maintenance of garden hand tools, see more
· Knox Community Gardens – vegetable seedlings
· Knox Woodies – woodworking experts, with toy kits for children to build
BeComfy – home energy efficiency
· Grow What Where – gardening with native and indigenous plants.
· Pruning Native/Indigenous Shrubs and Grasses – plant maintenance and pollinator protection.
· And more!
For more information see our Events Page
Knox Environment Society Nursery.
The Knox Repair Cafe meets monthly (excluding January) to fix your broken items, stopping them from going to landfill.
No bookings required, just bring along your items for repair!
In 1985, the Knox Environment Society established what is believed to be one of the first indigenous nurseries in Australia. The Indigenous Nursery is completely volunteer run and most of the money the Society earned through plant sales goes back into the community for environmental campaigns and projects, both locally and globally, such as the Sword-grass Brown Butterfly project, local wildlife carers, lobbying for better public transport and donations to other groups striving for similar objectives.
To find out more about what our Nursery volunteers do, please please see our Volunteering at the KES Nursery page.
If you would like to become a volunteer, please see our Membership page.
If you would like to visit us or buy plants, please see our Location and Open Hours.
The Knox Environment Society acknowledges the traditional custodians of the foothills of the Corhanwarrabul Ranges; the Wurundjeri and Bunurong people of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders past and present.
The Knox Environment Society is an inclusive space.
No matter your gender, orientation, ethnicity, religion, colour, age, level of ability or skillset, you are very welcome in our community.
Cover Photo by Melissa Allen: Burchardia umbellata - Milkmaids