Plant-A-Palooza - Caboolture

Next date: Saturday, 14 March 2026 | 10:00 AM to 02:00 PM

The Caboolture Library, art gallery and Town Square are coming alive with all things gardening! Enjoy information talks, gets hands on with activities. What’s happening? See below!

Town Square

Become a Wonderkeeper at the Wonder Wagon | Join artist Nadine Schmoll to learn about seven natural wonders found in Moreton Bay and their unique role in the ecosystem. You’ll get hands-on by creating your own clay sculpture, filled with all the elements your wonder needs to stay alive and thriving. By the end, you’ll walk away as a pledged Wonderkeeper, ready to share the message of caring for and protecting our natural world.

Caboolture Library

• Meet gardener Claire Bickle to find out the ins and outs of organic gardening.
• Discover how easy it is to keep native bees with Sarah Hamilton from Bee Yourself.
• Enjoy a bushfood demonstration from My Dilly Bag.
• Meet local gardening clubs, plant societies, and environmentally-focused groups to pick up tips.
• Start your own veggie patch with free tomato plants and seeds! 
• Be creative at our craft station and make a fairy house, paint a rock and more! 
• Enjoy a demonstration of making a kokedama. Be inspired to bring the outdoors inside. 

Caboolture Regional Art Gallery

Drop in for insightful discussions about art and agriculture as we celebrate the final days of the Yield exhibition with artists talks from Kaya Barry and Joe Furlonger and a weaving circle with artist Libby Harward.

Yield exhibition | Yield is an exhibition that unearths our cultivated identity. Through artworks from local, national and internationally recognised artists, the exhibition digs deep into this country’s agricultural history. Branching off from the story of prominent local Dr Joseph Bancroft - leader in experimental agriculture and medicine – Yield considers the legacies of early agricultural practices and how we continue to be impacted by them today.  

Creative space: To perceive is to yield | Do you sometimes hear a bird, pick a flower, or see a tree while driving down the highway? It can make you think of a friend, a loved one, a previous home or other histories in your life. As humans we exist within a network of multispecies relations. During your visit to the gallery, reflect on your ‘multispecies homes’ through creative activities designed by artist Fernando do Campo. You can contribute to a giant world map of animal and plant relations, and write a postcard to your favourite nature companions. 

Drop in: Strawberry patch | Did you know that Moreton Bay is the largest strawberry producing area in Australia, with 1 in 4 punnets grown here? Create a strawberry with paper and make it unique with pens and decorations in this free drop-in activity.   

Program 

Main stage | Library 

• 10:00 AM: Organic Gardening with Claire Bickle 
• 11:00 AM: Keeping Native Bees with Sarah Hamilton 
• 12:00 PM: Bushfood demonstration with My Dilly Bag 
• 1:00 PM Kokedama demonstration 

Art gallery

• 10:45 AM: Artist talk with Joe Furlonger in the gallery
• 11:15 AM: Artist talk with Kaya Barry in the gallery
• Drop in activities and the Yield exhibition

Drop in activities

• Weaving in The Vault with artist Libby Harward
• The Wonder Wagon in the Town Square
• Tomato planting, fairy hotels and more in the library

Plus, enjoy stalls from local gardening and environmental groups in the library. 

When

Location

Caboolture Library, 4 Hasking Street, Caboolture, 4510, View map