Hume council is offering all-age programs to connect residents with nature.
One of these is the council’s bushtucker or Indigenous cultural gardens, which it said are a “powerful act of Reconciliation, and popular among locals.”
One of these gardens was established at the Craigieburn Community Garden, which involved planting over 300 indigenous seedlings used for food, medicine, fibre, or tool making to a native garden bed.
A similar event took place at the food garden at Sunbury Neighbourhood House.
Hume is also hosting a ‘Seedlings for Schools’ program, that assists schools to establish bush tucker gardens on their grounds.
Hume residents and businesses can also apply to have a free one hour garden visit with volunteer garden guides through organisation Gardens for Wildlife Victoria, where they will receive advice about bush tucker gardens.
For those with a strong interest in productive food gardens, the council’s ‘Let’s Grow Hume’ workshops are returning.
Details can be found on the Let’s Grow Hume webpage, where residents can secure a spot in the workshop with gardening experts and receive resources to increase capacity for growing vegetables and herbs at home.
In a media release from Hume, it said that “further inspiration on what people can grow at home” can be found through visiting the bush tucker gardens at the Westmeadows Indigenous Community Garden, and at Banksia Gardens Community Services in Broadmeadows.
