Get Involved

Creative Harvest brings Gippsland and our broader metro and regional communities together. It’s a magical event that celebrates the practical, heart-driven way we do things. If you’d like to join our extended Creative Harvest family, we’d love to have you.

Seven ways you can help grow Creative Harvest

1. Volunteer

Join around 100 indispensable volunteers who help over the weekend by:

Putting up signage and directing parking
Welcoming visitors and validating tickets
Answering visitors’ questions
Setting up and dismantling displays

Note: In return for working one day of the weekend, all volunteers receive a free pass to explore gardens on the other day.

2. Open your garden

Our volunteers welcome visitors coming to your garden. For example, they can collect tickets or even direct parking.

3. Sponsor us

Link your ‘do good’ brand to this well-loved and respected regional Victorian event.

Choose from a range of sponsorship levels and options. Our experienced marketing team will work with you to tailor a sponsorship package that matches your brand perfectly and showcases your support for our Gippsland community.

Discuss a custom sponsorship package

4. Bring your food or coffee van

Enhance the festive, foodie atmosphere by feeding famished visitors and volunteers.

Find out about food & beverage stalls

5. Become a Creative Harvest artist, maker, or small-batch producer

Show and share your work with a whole new audience of potential fans.

See how we select our creatives

6. Join the Creative Harvest Organising Committee

Join a vibrant group of dedicated gardeners and sustainability champions. Grow your network. Put your fab admin or marketing or organising skills to excellent use and have a say in shaping Creative Harvest’s future.

7. Become a Baw Baw Sustainability Network (BBSN) member

Work with like-minded humans to help us use less energy and grow more delicious food.

Creative Harvest is the brainchild of the Baw Baw Sustainability Network. Established in 2007, BBSN is an independent not-for-profit charity, registered with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC), bridging the gap between talk and action on sustainable living.

All funds raised by Creative Harvest support BBSN activities focusing on three main areas – advocacy, helping people reduce their energy use at home or small business and promoting local food networks and gardening. By providing a Home Energy Assessment service and some remediation services, BBSN support low-income families to reduce their energy costs and thereby improves their standard of living. Through the Creative Harvest Edible Garden Weekend, BBSN promotes home food gardening and offers an assortment of educational talks and experiences to broaden the knowledge base and capacity of community members to become more discerning about their own food sourcing.