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.

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 returned in 2024 to plant a further 30,000! In 2025, we planted 20,000 seedlings at Dabakarn in Lower Chittering… join us in 2026!

Get involved.
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.