06/09/2026
🌱 Located in the City of Mitcham, Karinya Reserve is a popular community space where sporting facilities and play equipment sit alongside a protected natural environment – grey box grassy woodland.
Trees For Life (SA) and Blackwood High School used a Green Adelaide Grassroots Grant to restore Karinya Reserve.
Trees For Life Regional Coordinator Tamara Horsnell says that despite the efforts from volunteers, the reserve was becoming damaged and degraded.
‘Unfortunately, we were in a situation where there was some vandalism happening repeatedly – trees being cut down, cubby houses being made.
‘So, we wanted to bring people in, educate them, get them in the bush and really show them why this area is important,’ she says.
And a Green Adelaide Grassroots Grant was just the thing to make it possible.
The grant allowed Trees For Life to tackle some of the weeds taking over the site, while also getting the school and scout group on board with revegetation.
The partnership kicked off with an in-class workshop for students, then a walk-through the reserve. Finally, two planting days were held – one with the scouts and the other with the school. Between them, the team got an impressive 600 plants into the ground!
Tamara says that since the project, there has been no vandalism at the site.
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