Maximise your growing space
Join us at Yarraville Community Garden to learn how to get the most out of your vegetable garden growing space.
In an ideal world our produce growing spaces would be in full sun and be a lovely big space to grow everything we want- but most veggie plots are not this ideal!
In this workshop you will learn:
Which plants cope with different amounts of sun and shade.
Which veggies you can keep picking, without taking out the whole plant.
Which plants are ideal on the edges or tucked in between other ones.
and so much more!
This workshop is ideal for those of us with limited space to grow food, either a plot in a community garden, a balcony or a small but shady space in a back yard. It’s also a great opportunity to check out Yarraville Community Garden!
About the facilitator
Kat Lavers is a small space food production specialist, gardening educator and permaculture designer.
Her work reconnects people with the land, and possibilities, beneath their feet, helping transform postage stamp courtyards into pockets of abundance.
Kat’s urban system The Plummery is a tiny 1/14th acre (280m2) suburban block that pumps out almost all the household’s veggies, herbs, fruit and quail eggs – reaching 450kg of produce in 2020!
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Please feel free to bring any surplus produce, seeds, cuttings, plants, gardening magazines etc to swap and share!
Please note that this is an event for Naarm/Melbourne gardeners only. If you live outside this area, please contact your council to find out what free sustainable gardening events are available locally.
If you have any access or support questions or requirements in order to participate fully (eg. interpreter), please let us know at least two weeks prior to the event and we will be pleased to assist you. Photos will be taken at this event, but there is an option to opt out on the day.
This My Smart Garden event is proudly presented by Maribyrnong City Council on the land of Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung of the Kulin nation. My Smart Garden pays our respect to Elders past, present and emerging and acknowledges that First Nations peoples have cared for Country sustainably for tens of thousands of years.
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