Activate Saplings

Activate Saplings is the youth division of Activate Tree Planting.

Our core crew is a bunch of twenty-somethings who love the Activate festival model and its mission and values. Guided by the Activate Tree Planting leaders and elders (who we call our OG’s – old growth), the Saplings are learning the ropes of organising Activate festivals.

Our aim is to involve and inspire young people just like us with the Activate mission and vision – to plant seeds of hope for our future through a festival of celebration and connection.

It’s no secret that the world is in trouble, and we’re inheriting it. Like so many people, young and old, we want to pass on something loving and sustainable to future generations. Activate gives hope in the face of climate doom and gets us doing something real for the lands that are our home.

In 2022, we organised our first Activate festival in Wandering. Together, we planted 20,000 seedlings as our muso friends weaved their music into the landscape. In 2023, we planted 36,000 seedlings at Nomans Lake and will return in 2024 to plant a further 30,000! Woohoo! 

If you’re a young person and want to contribute, come and join us! When tree-planting, food, music, dancing and people come together in a spirit of creating rather than consuming, it empowers us to do more for the world we know is possible.

Activate Saplings are so thankful to our OG’s for their investment of time, energy and wisdom, and giving us this opportunity to create something awesome.