Join us for this online event showcasing four native microforests built by community leaders in the ACT and NSW. This environmental and social movement is lead by the social enterprise, The Climate Factory. It's Founder, Edwina Robinson is a landscape architect who decided in 2019 to do something about climate change and set about making a pilot project in Downer, ACT. Since then they've built three more, with a fifth to be built in Queanbeyan, NSW in 2024.

The microforest movement brings people together, regreens the landscape with water harvesting and gives hope for the future. Edwina uses the Miyawaki method of dense planting but with a twist. She's employed water harvesting techniques to get water deep into the ground to help plants thrive in a hotter future and is experimenting with choosing plants from hotter, drier areas. In 2024 she worked with the Eurobodalla community to build a microforest of the threatened ecological community, Dry Rainforest at St Johns, Moruya.

Edwina is a TEDx Canberra speaker and Canberra's microforests appeared on ABC 'Gardening Australia' in 2023

This event is part of the National Sustainability Festival 2024.

www.climatefactory.com.au