The Blue Mountains Botanic Garden Has Released Its Own Gin with All Proceeds Going to Bushfire Recovery – Concrete Playground

After beginning the year with a devastating bushfire season, then following it up with a global pandemic that rid the area of tourism, the Blue Mountains, it’s fair to say, has has a tough 12 months. In response, Mount Tomah’s Blue Mountains Botanic Garden has turned to an unlikely partner on its road towards bushfire recovery: gin. In collaboration with Sydney-based gin brand Grown Spirits, the Botanic Garden has released the Blue Mountains Grown Gin in a limited run of just 1000 bottles.

All proceeds from the gin go to supporting the garden’s horticultural and scientific staff in their efforts to restore hundreds of specimens and areas of the Blue Mountains Botanic Garden destroyed in the bushfires earlier…