Meeting places for plants and pollinators

Bring paradise home by growing sanctuaries

Across the Northern Rivers, a growing corridor of nectar-rich sanctuaries is spreading from the valley to the sea. Sanctuaries support biodiversity, offer a path into environmental education, and give children, families and community members something real to tend, return to, and grow alongside.

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Why Sanctuaries Matter

A sanctuary is a place to belong

Sanctuaries are safe environments for rest and the creation of relationship: between people and place, between plants and pollinators, and between present care and future legacy.

Three Pathways

Choose your way into a sanctuary

Host a Sanctuary

Grow a place of beauty, biodiversity, and belonging, where pollinators return, families gather, and something meaningful takes root
For Landowners, Retreats & Hosts
Bring Paradise Home

Pollinate Community

Places where memories are made and community becomes tangible. families plant side by side and children learn through hands-on experiences.
For Halls, Schools & Shared-spaces
Grow With Community

Seasonal Gatherings

Every gathering is an opportunity for walk, talk, touch & taste-based ecological education and seasonal celebrations.
Come and feel for yourself
Visit a Sanctuary

A living legacy

Leave something behind.

The deepest gift of a sanctuary is that it continues. A child plants, returns, notices, and remembers. A family feels part of a place. A community inherits something alive. This is how belonging becomes visible.

Start Here

Bring a sanctuary to your land, hall, retreat, or community.

The first step is simple: a conversation, a walk through the space, and a feel for what wants to grow there.

Let's Walk & Talk

See what's possible

Visit The Wild Bee Sanctuary

At Coorabell Hall, unused space was transformed into a thriving bee sanctuary. The first seedlings were planted in May 2025. It is now a place of beauty, gathering, and ecological activity and has hosted over 120 attendees at the Flower Show in March 2026.

Bangalow Herald March 2026

Listen to the bees

Coorabell Hall - Wildbee Sanctuary

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Friends of The Pollinators

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