Plant, Grow, Eat, Connect – Garden Design Workshop – Altona

Join us for this garden planning workshop with Karen Sutherland and learn how to create a productive edible garden! As part of the session we’ll take a walk through the community garden and explore opportunities to make the garden more productive and deliver a year round harvest.

If you’re interested in gardening and keen on getting involved in the community, we’re looking for members of the community who want to learn the skills needed to grow and maintain a sustainable edible garden. Help us by putting those skill into practice in our community garden while enjoying regular catch ups with like-minded people.

About Karen:

Karen Sutherland has grown her own food since she could wield a shovel and has 40 years of horticultural experience, training at Ceres, Melbourne Zoo, Burnley College and with Bill Mollison for her PDC. Her business Edible Eden Design helps others grow food, through consulting, designing, writing, and educating. Working with schools and community groups, she designs bush food and indigenous teaching gardens and has developed her own range of plant ID signs for these. Her own garden, Gunyah, has 200 edible and useful plants, including 40 Australian natives. She co-authored ‘Tomato; Know Sow Grow Feast’ with Penny Woodward and Janice Sutton, writes for Organic Gardener and Green Magazine and appears on 3CR gardening radio. She has studied indigenous culture and medicine for the last 7 or so years with her Wiradjuri teacher, Minmia.