Nature Festival 6 - 16 October 2022

The Nature Festival is returning to South Australia from the 6th - 16th of October 2022 releasing its full program of over 200 events to be hosted across South Australia, featuring an array of talks, arts, nature walks, workshops, adventure activities, open gardens and films to name only a few.  

The 2022 festival will be embracing its inaugural theme ‘Tend’.  Intended to be interpreted diversely, just like our relationship with nature, Nature Festival is asking event-goers to think about how they ‘Tend’ to nature in their own unique and creative manner through care in action and practice. 

Highlighted in today's program release is the announcement of the festival’s inaugural gardener in residence, horticulturalist and Creative Director of Super Bloom Plant Practice, Jac Semmler. Jac is passionate about helping others learn how to tend to their own gardens and sharing her experiences with Heartland, her own stunning garden and adjacent streetscape in Victoria. Jac has recently established a creative emerging plant practice, known as Super Bloom, which brings dynamic living beauty and diversity into urban spaces, landscapes, creative projects and places. 

Semmler will deliver a keynote conversation with Paul West at the Adelaide Botanic Gardens, install the festival’s community grown floral installation ‘Tender’ in the Botanic Gardens, take daily roving excursions tending to various gardening ideas and conversations, and curate the ‘Tender’ picnic on the final day of the festival.

For more information and to explore the complete Nature Festival 2022 program, Visit: www.naturefestival.org.au