Garden

Our gardens can bring us closer to understanding the ecosystems that underpin life on this planet and how to live in harmony with the earth. By creating a beautiful, efficient and productive garden in your home, you can learn the rhythms of nature and our humble role in it. So how can we let our green thumbs play and align our gardens to the sustainable path?

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Grow an indigenous garden

Growing indigenous and endemic plants in your backyard conserves biodiversity.

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Mulch your patch

Mulching your garden beds improves soil health while preventing water loss through evaporation.

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Grow your own food

Want to taste really fresh food that’s good for you and the planet? Get into gardening in your own backyard.

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Environment

Our gardens are perhaps the easiest part of our lives to make sustainable and two paths appear to describe the environmental choices in the garden. On one hand we can have the productive garden with veggies and fruit trees. This is an efficient and sustainable way to grow food (no transport) and any extra water used is simply offset by the water saved by not buying food produced elsewhere.

On the other hand there is the non-productive garden that is sustainable through it’s alignment to its conditions. This garden requires no external resources (i.e. water, fertiliser) to survive and thrive. If you can achieve both these paths in one garden you're doing very well.

Wellbeing

Gardening is good for your heart and soul. It puts you in direct contact with the natural systems that give us life through food. The food grown in your garden is fresh, free of toxins and somehow more satisfying for you having grown it.

The process of gardening improves your mental health by helping you relax and unwind. It improves your cardiovascular fitness as well as your flexibility, endurance and strength.