Learn how to create a more comfortable and safe home with a courtyard or balcony garden that shelters you from extreme weather – and cuts your energy bills!

This session explores how our climate is changing in Naarm/Melbourne, patterns of sun and wind throughout the year, and how to conduct a site analysis for your property.

Learn how a smart landscaping design can lower your indoor air temperature during summer while keeping you warm in winter, and see examples of practical landscaping strategies including renter-friendly options.

This session will focus on small garden spaces, but the principles can be applied to any garden space.

About the facilitator
Kat Lavers is a small space food production specialist, gardening educator and permaculture designer.

Her work reconnects people with the land, and possibilities, beneath their feet, helping transform postage stamp courtyards into pockets of abundance.

Kat’s urban system The Plummery is a tiny 1/14th acre (280m2) suburban block that pumps out almost all the household’s veggies, herbs, fruit and quail eggs – reaching 450kg of produce in 2020!

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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 Woi Wurrung 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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