On Sunday 30 August 2009, Archbishop Phillip, will dedicate and officially open the Good Shepherd Nature Education Trail at Park Ridge, south of Brisbane. An Aboriginal elder will conduct an Acknowledgement of Country ceremony and an Environmental Expo will be open to everyone.
During the past two years, the overgrown perimeter of the grounds at the Church of the Good Shepherd has been transformed. Previously, loyal parishioners maintained the area around the worship centre but the rampant growth of bamboo and other weeds near the side fences were almost too much to manage.
The wheel-chair friendly Trail comprises eight sectors, each with clustered plantings and a distinctive name: Bottle Tree Trinity, Flowering Flora, Lilly Pilly Grove, Meditation Garden (with magnolias and other white-flowered trees and shrubs), Food Trees, Palm & Fern Path, Pine Heritage Walk and Forest Giant Canopy. Each sector will have its own reflective station marked by a mosaic paving slab and an interpretive sign. The plantings include trees with Biblical significance and some rare species such as a Wollemi pine. Professional and scientific advice has been sought from a number of sources.
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