In this end of year event, join us for a (roughly) 1 hour Expert Q&A where you'll be able to ask an expert gardener, Karen Sutherland from Edible Eden Design, all of your burning gardening questions. Then stay for lunch (which will be provided) and a chance to meet and chat with other local gardeners. This social event is a great opportunity to meet new people, build connections and perhaps even make lifelong friends.

If you can, bring along any seeds or produce that you'd like to swap or give away on the day. Don't have anything to swap or give away? No worries! Feel free to bring along a bag/ container and someone else may have an abundance of produce that they'd be happy to share with you anyway.

The entire event will run for roughly 2 hours.

Registrations are essential. Please let us know of any dietary restrictions and remember to cancel your ticket if you decide that you can no longer attend so that we can cater for the correct amount of people. All dietary requirements must be provided at least 3 days prior to the event.

This venue is accessible for people using wheelchairs and other mobility aids. If you have any access or support 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.

Your teacher:

Karen Sutherland has spent her life in the garden, from an 8 year old in her vegie patch to training at Ceres, Melbourne Zoological Gardens, an Associate Diploma in Applied Science from Melbourne University (Burnley), and a Permaculture Design Certificate with Bill Mollison. She has run her own horticultural business for 35 years and 12 years ago shifted her focus to edible plants as ‘Edible Eden Design’.

She writes, teaches, speaks, and consults on a range of edible gardening projects and collaborative indigenous interpretive gardens, and has regular columns in ABC Organic Gardener Magazine and Green Magazine.

Karen is the co-author of an award winning book, ‘Tomato Know Sow Grow Feast’. She has a micro-nursery, selling native and unusual food plants online as well as her own range of interpretive plant ID signs for gardens.

You can find Karen on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, her Website and her YouTube Channel.

This My Smart Garden event is proudly presented by Brimbank City Council on the Country of the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurung peoples 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.