The ‘Food Forest’ is a popular practice in Permaculture gardening: Planting your fruit trees, berries, vegetables, flowers and herbs in such a way that they take on the functions of a natural forest. Plants support and interact with each other resulting in a larger and more varied harvest, while jobs such as weeding, fertilising, planting and pest control are increasingly handled by nature as the food forest matures and achieves a balance.

Join us for a workshop that will introduce you to practices and concepts that turn your garden into an edible ecosystem where the space used for a couple of lonely fruit trees develops into a multi-layered productive edible ecosystem that supports and protects your fruit trees while providing you with many additional functions and harvests.

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 and Bunurong 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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