Gardening and food production
Resources on sustainable gardening and growing food close to home.
Resources on sustainable gardening and growing food close to home.
Tips and tools on how to create your own sustainable garden.
Growing produce close to home helps reduce high food miles, chemical and water use typically associated with commercially grown food, and has other health benefits.
A community garden is land gardened by a group. Some have individual plots and others are shared spaces.
Council sometimes has free mulch available to residents for garden landscaping.
To support community food growing initiatives, Council is committed to developing an food systems and urban agriculture strategy for Merri-bek.