Find a place with clear blue skies, deep sandy red loam dunes, and a 50 million-year old river winding through it. Add a semi-arid woodland ecosystem studded with ancient Mallee eucalypts, some of which probably saw their first light 2000 years before Europeans reached Australia. Into this starkly beautiful environment, with its superb climate and natural assets, bring a can-do community of volunteers, energised by a vision of a unique resource for tourism, leisure, education and research. Over the years since the first plantings in 1991 by Lady and Sir Ninian Stephan former Governor General of Australia, the AIBG has grown in more ways than one. We have relocated Garnpang Homestead to become our coffee and gift shop. Regularly staffed by our wonderful volunteers it is a place to sit and enjoy a cappuccino whilst browsing in our historical shop.