Activities
GROUP PROGRAM for 2023
  Blue Mountains Group has a varied program.   Unless otherwise advised all meetings and activities are held in the Information Centre, Glenbrook Native Plants Reserve, Great Western Highway, Glenbrook

Regular activities

  Bushcare Group at the Reserve

  Meets on the first and third Saturday of each month (except January) 9 am till noon.

  Wednesday Group

  Meets each Wednesday noon till 4 pm

Other Activities for 2023

  Clean Up Australia Day

  Saturday 5 March
  9am
  Meeting Point: Outside the gates of the Glenbrook Native Plant Reserve.

  We will concentrate our clean up around the outside perimeter of the Glenbrook Native Plant Reserve.
  We will have a sausage sizzle at the end of the event.

  General meeting

  Wenesday 15th March
  10.30 am
  At the reserve.
  Agenda includes:
  1. Social media for the Nursery & Reserve
  2. Activity calendar for 2023
  3. Time of Christmas get-together

  All members welcome.

  Springwood Rainforest Garden Visit

  Sunday 26th March
  10 am
  There are just under 80 species established.
  Two sections that are 20 plus years old and three sections that were planted in 2019 or later.
  This gives a good overview of how long different species take to grow.
  Contact: 0403360895 or send email

  Visit to two Regeneration sites on the Cumberland Plains

  Saturday 22 April
  Leader: Peter Mobbs
  Details to come.
Contact: 0403360895 or send email

APS NSW AGM hosted by Central Coast at Kariong

  Saturday 20 May
  Details at APS NSW website.

Committee meeting

  10 am Wednesday 12 July at the Glenbrook Native Plant Reserve
  All members are welcome to attend.

  Talk at the Reserve followed by a light lunch

  10.30 am Saturday 29 July at the Glenbrook Native Plant Reserve, Great Western Highway Glenbrook
  Orgaiser Alix Coodwin
  Peter Ridgeway will speak about his multi-day walk through remnant bushland on the Cumberland Plain. Peter travelled 179 kilometres through open woodlands, native grasslands and wetlands and what is one of the least-known landscapes in Australia.

  Mid-week trip away at Blackheath

  Tuesday 8, 9 and 10 August
  This has been cancelled

Committee meeting

  10 am Wednesday 9 August at the Glenbrook Native Plant Reserve
  All members are welcome to attend.

  Walk in Knapsack Reserve

  Thursday 17 August
  Leader: Jim Ward
  Contact: Phone 0412 563 716

  Visit to Joseph Banks Native Plants Reserve in Kareela

  Sunday 20 August
  This has been cancelled

  Bushcare and working bee before the Spring Show

  Saturday 2 September
  Commencing at 9 am.

  Set up reserve and nursery for Show

  Friday 8 September
  Commencing at 10 am.
Sprint Fair 2023

  One day APS NSW Gathering

  10 am Saturday 16 September
  Location: Corrimal Community Hall, 15 Short Street Corrimal .
Details at APS NSW website.

Nocturnal Safari of the Glenbrook Nature Reserve

  Wednesday 20 September, 2023
  Leader: Ecologist Tom Covell from Hooked on Nature.
  The tour will include torches for 20 participants, bat detectors, UV insect light traps, and invertebrate testing of the creek if there is water.
  The cost of the night walk will be $20.00 per BM APS member (only adults can join the tour).
  This is the first formal ecological survey and walk of the Reserve for nocturnal activities and species.
  Because the numbers are limited BM APS is calling for an Expression of Interest from members who may wish to attend.
  (If more than 20 people apply we will draw names from a hat in early September and then notify all applicants. We can also organise another walk in future if it proves to be very popular.)

  Walk Castlereagh Nature Reserve

 
Saturday 23 September
  Leader Peter Mobbs.
  Contact: 0403360895 or send email

  Propagation workshop with Jan Cave

  Sunday 8 October
  Location Hazelbrook.
  Details to come.

  Walk at Woodford

  Saturday 28 October
  Leader: Jim Ward.
  Contact: Phone 0412 563 716

  APS NSW get together hosted by Southern Highlands group

  Friday 4 & Saturday 5 November
  Location: Goulburn.
  Registration and details at APS NSW website.

  Walk along the beginning of the Bell Perimeter Trail

  Saturday 25 November
  Location: Bell
  Details to come.

  Christmas BBQ

  Sunday 3 December
  Commences 2 pm

Bush care Group and BBQ

  Saturday 16 December
9 am-12 pm