Home Harvest Manningham is a monthly home gardening seminar series that will teach you how to grow your own delicious fresh food at home.

Want to be able to garden without spending a fortune? Maria Ciavarella from My Green Garden will show you how to utilise things you already have to garden and save money.

During this seminar you will discover innovative ways to create a sustainable garden without breaking the bank. Maria will share tips and tricks to help you save money while still achieving a beautiful and eco-friendly garden.

This session will cover how to:

• repurpose everyday items
• recycle organic waste
• make the most of your garden space.

Whether you're a seasoned gardener or just starting out, this event is perfect for anyone looking to embrace sustainable practices and save money in the process.

As a special treat, all attendees will participate in a tomato seeding activity with a heritage or heirloom seed variety from the Bulleen Art and Garden range.

The community food, seed and garden swap takes place at 6.45pm, 15 minutes before each session.

Registration is recommended but not required.

This event is part of our Inspired Living Series. This series showcases an exciting range of fun and sustainable activities and events for all ages, supporting sustainability at home, in the community and at work.

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Are you new to composting, or an experienced composter ready to level up your composting efforts?

Join us this International Compost Awareness Week for a free composting workshop by the experts at Compost Community. 

The session will cover: 

• choosing the system that best suits your lifestyle
• adding organics
• speeding up your compost
• troubleshooting common issues
• harvesting and using the finished compost.

Registration is essential and spots are limited.

Join sustainable craft teacher and artist Emma Grace for a free hands-on workshop to learn how to make seed bombs.

Participants will get an introduction to germination, learn the benefits of flowers and see a demonstration on how to make seed paper.

Each child will go home with their own seed bombs to add colour and life to their garden – right in time for spring!

Suitable for children aged 5 to 12.

Home Harvest Manningham is a monthly home gardening seminar series that will teach you how to grow your own delicious fresh food at home.

Manningham has more than four seasons. Duncan Cocking from Leaf, Root and Fruit will deep dive into succession planning for local conditions.

Duncan will discuss the patterns that he sees in nature and how easily you can begin observing them too. Use these observations to inspire your gardening activities by working with nature rather than against it. Learn how to refine your succession planting and ripen that elusive Christmas tomato. Create your own action plan for your vegetable patch.

Topics covered include:

• the seasons of Melbourne/Manningham
• being an observant gardener
• Phenology
• timing of planting and succession planting
• growing Christmas tomatoes, creating an action plan.

Food swap from 6.45pm, session starts at 7.00pm.

Registration is recommended but not required.

This event is part of our Inspired Living Series. This series showcases an exciting range of fun and sustainable activities and events for all ages, supporting sustainability at home, in the community and at work.

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Home Harvest Manningham is a monthly home gardening seminar series that will teach you how to grow your own delicious fresh food at home.

Karen Sutherland has a lifelong passion for growing her own food. In this seminar Karen will share with you her expertise in incorporating a bush tucker garden at your place.

This session will cover:

• the best bush food plants for gardens in Manningham
• which plants to pot vs those to plant in the ground
• basic growing information
• the basics of harvesting bush 'tucker'
• simple uses for both fresh and dried plants.

Start your passion for native edibles such as lemon and cinnamon myrtle, native thyme and sage, peppers, mints, fruits and berries.

Food swap from 6.45pm, session starts at 7.00pm.

Registration is recommended but not required.

This event is part of our Inspired Living Series. This series showcases an exciting range of fun and sustainable activities and events for all ages, supporting sustainability at home, in the community and at work.

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Ahead of National Recycling Week, join Precious Plastic Melbourne to gain an overview of the different types of plastic in circulation, their recyclability and usage.

Learn about some of the challenges of recycling certain plastic materials, and understand the complexity that exists at a local area level.

This session will help you identify different plastic types with ease and confidence and understand what can be done with them.

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不太清楚新的 FOGO 服务如何运作？

欢迎参加我们的在线问答环节，我们友善的工作人员将回答您的任何疑问。

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Have a FOGO question? We’ve got the answer.

Not quite sure how the new FOGO service works?

Drop in to one of our casual online Q and A sessions where our friendly staff will be available to answer any of your queries.

Please note: this session will be run in English, Cantonese and Mandarin.

Are you new to composting? Come along and learn from the experts at Compost Community. They will show you how to get started on your composting journey.

Topics will include:

• choosing a system that suits your lifestyle
• adding organics
• using the finished compost.

The session will cover the three main types of composting – traditional compost, worm farming and bokashi.

All gardens begin with fabulous soil. 

In this workshop we will take a deep dive into the world of soil and how to care for it. There are many simple ways to improve the soil in your garden and enable a productive and beautiful garden for all to enjoy.

This workshop will introduce you to the science of soil and provide tips and tricks on how to improve soil for a wildlife garden and benefit the environmental.

Bring a sample of your own soil to test pH.

Presenter: Charlotte Harrison from Sustainable Gardening Australia.

Supper is at 6.45pm, the seminar begins at 7.00pm sharp.

Registration is essential.

This is the second seminar of a four-part series on Gardening for Biodiversity. The series of workshops is run by Sustainable Gardening Australia and provides tips and tricks to garden for wildlife and support biodiversity in your local area. 

Seeing small birds visit our gardens is a wonderful experience and there are many ways we can create our gardens to encourage their visits. 

This workshop will share some of the challenges small birds face in the urban environment and what can be done to create a safe and inviting home for them.  A few of the local small bird champions will also be introduced and the session includes tips for providing food, shelter, water and breeding sites to create habitat for birds.

Presenter: Charlotte Harrison from Sustainable Gardening Australia.

Supper is at 6.45pm, the seminar begins at 7.00pm sharp. 

Registration is essential. 

This is the final session of a four-part series on Gardening for Biodiversity. The series of workshops is run by Sustainable Gardening Australia and provides tips and tricks to garden for wildlife and support biodiversity in your local area. 

Ready to level up your composting effort? Come along and learn from the experts at Compost Community.

They will show you how to advance your composting journey, including:

• speed up your compost
• trouble shoot issues
• harvest and use your compost.

Learn some tips and tricks to help you push the envelope and recycle more organics at home.

Clean Up Australia Day is happening on Sunday 2 March, come along and help keep our beautiful city clean.

We would love our community members to join our Councillors and staff at Boronia Reserve - 105 Leeds Street, Doncaster East (meet in car park). 

We will be conducting our litter collection along Koonung Creek Linear Park.

Each participant will be issued with gloves and litter collection gear.

BBQ lunch will be provided from 12.30pm.