North Sydney council staff and Bushcare volunteers will again travel to Boorowa and add to more than 56,000 trees, shrubs and grasses they have already planted in the district. There have been many seeds of friendship grown along the way, including a marriage, and it has helped form many lasting bonds between our two communities.

This year, I will be welcoming North Shore MP Felicity Wilson as my guest to witness this wonderful award-winning project. As a result of this project, the superb parrot habitat is being restored, which was on the path to extinction because its natural habitat had been decimated.

Wildlife corridors have been reestablished, not only protecting stock from the elements but also providing a vital refuge for native wildlife; allowing viable populations to be sustained into the future.

In 2017, Boorowa Landcare and Boorowa schools travelled to Sydney to complete another first - a planting at the Coal Loader (Centre for Sustainability) in North Sydney 20 years on.

This project is evolving and still going strong.

As Building Bridges to Boorowa demonstrates, we can all make a difference at a grassroots level if we work together. Landcare and Bushcare rely on professional staff and infrastructure - such as local coordinators and central support - to enable volunteers to do their important work.

I look forward to the mayors of both councils signing a new memorandum of understanding at the official dinner on Saturday to continue to acknowledge the wonderful work volunteers are doing.