Grow better together

Name: Grow better together
Start: 2026-10-10T10:00:00+1100
End: 2026-10-10T12:30:00+1100
Location: Edendale Community Environment Farm

Sat, 10 Oct, 10am - 12:30pm AEDT

Edendale Community Environment Farm

Eltham VIC, Australia

Edendale Community Environment Farm

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Description

Participants will gain practical knowledge including:

Select plant friends that benefit and protect each other
Attract pollinator and beneficial insects
Hands-on activity, pot up a seedling to take home and grow
Take a tour of Edendale's sustainable productive garden to see companion planting systems in action.

About your Tutor: Melissa Houselander from Hortopia Landscapes

Melissa is an Educator, qualified Horticulturist and avid gardener. She is passionate about promoting biodiversity and growing nutrient-dense food, using permaculture principles and ecological gardening methods.

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Edendale Community Environment Farm

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Our mission, vision and engagement model

Edendale is a Community Environment Farm and Climate Action Hub set on six hectares of land next to the Diamond Creek in Eltham.

Edendale has been a Council facility since 1970 when it was purchased by the Shire of Eltham. After a number of incarnations, including as the shire’s pound, Edendale Farm was established as a community farm in 1986. Edendale became a centre for environmental education in 2000 and in 2023 started to develop the Nillumbik Environment and Climate Action Hub (known as NECAH).

Along with our animals, indigenous plant nursery, school environmental education program, events and workshops, Edendale now plays an important role as a hub for the local community to learn and share ideas about sustainable living, caring for nature and climate action.

Our mission

To provide an interactive community and education centre to support sustainable living practices for the whole community.

Our vision

Edendale is enhancing awareness of environmental sustainability through learning, and is a place for:

lifelong learning about environmental issues, including demonstration of local solutions to global environmental challenges
drawing people from Nillumbik and beyond
celebrating the richness of the Nillumbik environment and culture
vibrant and inspiring community activity.

Our engagement model

Our engagement model of Connecting, Learning, Leading helps us focus our services, resources and communications to support our community and deliver on Council’s plans and objectives: