The Garden Route is coined as such for its lush natural vegetation and “evergreen” look. With its glorious rivers, mountains, seas, forests and wildlife, it is no surprise that it is a very popular tourist destination. But behind the scenes, particularly for those of us who live here, there is work to be done to maintain, protect and restore its beauty. The information provided in this section is to help raise awareness around the responsibilities as landowners (and guardians) of this place we are lucky to call home.
Useful PDF Documents
Post Archives
Activities
- Arbour Month and the Beautification of George
- Roche Diagnostics Making a Difference in the Garden Route
- The Breath of Giving and Receiving
- Biodiversity, Forest Rehabilitation and Indigenous Landscaping
- Hoekwil Primary School Centenary Celebration
- Fly … Plant … Offset!
- Rounds of Fun
- Play, Plant, Love
- Competing for 1st Place .. playing for Trees
- Hey ho, hey ho … Off to plant we go …
- The Gift of Gifting a Precious Tree
- PTP Mini Outreach Program – Lawaaikamp Creche, Thembalethu
- Arbour Week vs Corporate Environmental Responsibility
- ALWAYS ROOM FOR MORE: Oakhurst Farm Cottages & AfriCamps
- Choosing Green to Honour Purple
- PTP Mini Outreach Program – Inkcubeko Youth & Science Centre, Thembalethu
- Clear … Plant … Repeat …
- Friends of the Forest – Libertas Guest Farm
- Introducing a different Element into the Wildlife Corridor
- Nothing but benefits to planting out trees
- The Bigger Business of Assisted Reforestation
- What we do Matters
- Celebrating Arbour Week
- Expanding the Wildlife Corridors
- Growing a bio-mimicked forest patch at Vitali Health Centre
- Men on a Hell of a Mission
- Homeward Bound
- Clocking up another 100km on their Tour de Burn Belts!
- Revelling in Karoo Panorama
- Cycling in “Big Aloe” Territory
- The Tough got Going
- The Fruits Of Lockdown Labour
- Planting for Health
- Thirty Sponsored Precious Trees Sent to Heaven
- Playing for Trees – thriVe Beach Volleyball Challenge 2019 Fundraising Event
- An Inspirational Family Planting Trees on Holiday
- Growing the Indigenous Forest at the Botanical Gardens
- Volunteer Tree Planting – George Botanical Gardens 7 December 2019
- Expanding the Oakhurst Forest
- Offerings from Nature
- Planting Precious Trees in a Heatwave
- Arbor Month: Oakhurst Insurance growing a Corporate Forest
- Riverwalking … Panga in Hand
- Celebrating 60 Years of Service with 60 Precious Indigenous Trees
- Planting a 60 Tree Mini Bio-mimicked Forest
- Counting and Separating Indigenous Seeds
- Rock the Route Pitching up at School
- Hands, Knees, Feet and Faces
- Hoekwil Primary School Getting Creative
- “How to Build a Mini Nursery” – Training Workshop with Six Kingdoms
- Leaving with A Full Heart
- 50 Precious Trees added to Heartland Forest
- Our Workforce Getting Active and Learning in the Process
- Playing For Trees – thrive Beach Volleyball Challenge 2018 Fundraising Event
- Closing up Offices for the year with a day of Planting
- Volunteer Tree Planting Session – Nirvana, Rheenendal
- Arbor Day – Arbor Week – Arbor Month – Arbor Lifetime
- Thinking future generations …. children, animals, birds, bees and Yellowwood Trees
- Feeding into the Heart of Heartland
- Celebrating our Tree Man’s 50th Birthday at Shamboh
- Mending the Heart of the Land
- Playing for Trees – thriVe Beach Volleyball and Sand Castle Challenge 2017 Fundraising Event
- Shape of Emotion
- Re-establishing Removed Flora
- Tree Planting Session – JJ Bass, Plettenberg Bay
- Rocking the Garden Route
- Women’s Day 2017
- Clearing to Regrow Heartland Organic Farm
- What we do in our Volunteer Tree Planting Sessions
Art for Nature Artists
Awareness and Education
- What we do Matters
- Tree Medicines of the Garden Route: White Stinkwood
- Tree Medicines of the Garden Route: Tree Fuchsia
- Tree Medicines of the Garden Route: White Pear
- Tree Medicines of the Garden Route: Cape Beech
- Tree Medicines of the Garden Route: Wild Olive
- Tree Medicines of the Garden Route: Camphor Bush
- Tree Medicines of the Garden Route: Wild Peach
- Tree Medicines of the Garden Route: Cape Chestnut
- Tree Medicines of the Garden Route: White Ironwood
- Tree Medicines of the Garden Route: Cape Holly
- Tree Medicines of the Garden Route: Broom Cluster Fig
- Tree Medicines of the Garden Route: Forest Elder
- Tree Medicines of the Garden Route: Outeniqua Yellowwood
- Tree Medicines of the Garden Route
- The Myth of Trees
- The Garden Route and its Environmental Challenges
- The Benefits of Trees
Creating Mini Bio-Mimicked Forest Patches
- Play, Plant, Love
- Hey ho, hey ho … Off to plant we go …
- The Gift of Gifting a Precious Tree
- Arbour Week vs Corporate Environmental Responsibility
- ALWAYS ROOM FOR MORE: Oakhurst Farm Cottages & AfriCamps
- Choosing Green to Honour Purple
- Clear … Plant … Repeat …
- Friends of the Forest – Libertas Guest Farm
- Introducing a different Element into the Wildlife Corridor
- What we do Matters
- Growing a bio-mimicked forest patch at Vitali Health Centre
- Thirty Sponsored Precious Trees Sent to Heaven
- Planting a 60 Tree Mini Bio-mimicked Forest
- Celebrating our Tree Man’s 50th Birthday at Shamboh
- Shape of Emotion
- Re-establishing Removed Flora
- What we do in our Volunteer Tree Planting Sessions
Fundraising Events
- Rounds of Fun
- Competing for 1st Place .. playing for Trees
- Putting the Fun in Fundraising
- The Rewards of having Fun!
- Planting for Health
- Playing for Trees – thriVe Beach Volleyball Challenge 2019 Fundraising Event
- Playing For Trees – thrive Beach Volleyball Challenge 2018 Fundraising Event
- Playing for Trees – thriVe Beach Volleyball and Sand Castle Challenge 2017 Fundraising Event
Rehabilitation & Restoration Projects
- Nothing but benefits to planting out trees
- The Bigger Business of Assisted Reforestation
- Leaving with A Full Heart
- 50 Precious Trees added to Heartland Forest
- Closing up Offices for the year with a day of Planting
- Volunteer Tree Planting Session – Nirvana, Rheenendal
- Arbor Day – Arbor Week – Arbor Month – Arbor Lifetime
- Thinking future generations …. children, animals, birds, bees and Yellowwood Trees
- Feeding into the Heart of Heartland
- Mending the Heart of the Land
- Tree Planting Session – JJ Bass, Plettenberg Bay
- Clearing to Regrow Heartland Organic Farm
