What is Great Gardens?
The Great Gardens team is a group of Australia’s leading sustainability experts, who have a passion for the environment and an equal passion for inspiring and empowering Australia to become more sustainable.
What do we do?
We offer free workshops, training sessions and events that give our communities the tools to become more sustainable.
Our Training Topics:
- Waterwise gardening
- Design and management of your outdoor space
- Fertliser and river-friendly gardening
- Great plants
- How to grow delicious, nutritious food with less resources
- Energy efficiency
- Renewable energy
- Solar-passive design
- Planting for shading and cooling
- Grey water and water efficiency
- Recycling – what goes where and why
- Mulching, pruning and garden waste
- Soil improvement – turn sand into soil!
- Turning your garden into the biggest room in your house
- Turning your garden into a natural air-conditioner
- Nature play and getting outdoors with the kids
- And lots more!
Great Gardens & Sustainable Communities
Issues related to the sustainability of the environment have become central to most people’s lives. There's an increasing need to understand issues that affect us every day, such as climate change, resource shortage and environmental degradation in the Perth region. With this shift, West Australians are demanding information on how to be more sustainable at home and in their community.
As the community looks for guidance, Great Gardens addresses this need by providing free information, advice and education to Australians, in particular focusing on the critical importance of resource management in the home and garden. Great Gardens has a proven track record in this field delivering workshops advocating waterwise behaviour to more than 63,000 people in Australia.
Our work is backed by State and Local Government and their contribution enables us to provide our expertise to the community for free.
History
Great Gardens was founded in 2003 by pioneering sustainability experts Chris Ferreira and Garry Heady. 8 years on, the program is operated by Chris’s business, Landcare Solutions (www.landcaresolutions.net.au) and is the State’s leading program of community education. Great Gardens has delivered sustainability training to more than 63,000 Australians and are continuing to expand the program to reach more people in more areas around Australia than ever before.
Great Gardens is sponsored by The Water Corporation, Synergy, the Swan River Trust and Woodside. Great Gardens is supported by local Councils.
