Promoting a Sustainable Environment

EcoPark aims to provide practical approaches for students, families and communities.  The park will explore food production, recycling, solar energy and water conservation.  EcoPark will promote a healthy and sustainable environment.

EcoPark will bring ecological sustainability to life with a variety of learning adventures.  The adventures will be exciting, diverse, and accessible.

The fire circle will provide a meeting place for groups to meet and explore the environment.         

Some of the parks projects will include:

• Use of solar energy.
• Minimising waste including, compost bays and chook tractors.
• Frog watch.
• Rainwater harvesting.
• Recycling and treating grey and black water.
• Subsurface irrigation.
• A food forest.
• Plant propagation.
• Worm farms and collection of fertilizer (see diagram).

Dung Beetles                                     

The Dung Beetle promotes a sustainable environment and appears on our logo. 

Beetles that are found in dung pads, that mostly feed on dung and bury dung in underground tunnels are called Dung Beetles. There are 4,500 speices world wide.  

In 1967 forty three speices of Dung Beetles were released and began to crawl their way across Australia.  Twenty three species have become established and continue their many ecological functions.

The digging activity of tunnelling beetles results in the aeration of soil as well as the transfer of nutrients to the soil. This tunnelling and dung burial habit makes the dung beetles amount to one of the most important insects in our grazing lands. 

 To see how our park has progressed please go to our Gallery page to view our photos.

EcoPark is located on the corner of Goulburn Valley Highway and Grace Road, Shepparton (see map below).

We invite you to join our amazing journey and to become a part of our EcoPark Community.  For more information on how to become a member of EcoPark please contact:

Steve Hicks: 03 5822 1834  or  Wendy Shanks: 03 5831 6180