Grow it Local is a free online platform where backyard, balcony, community garden and window-sill farmers can connect, share, learn and foster their love of gardening.
A key action in our
Community Food Relief Plan 2021-25 is to support our community to grow and share their own food through food literacy initiatives. The City of Melbourne is proud to partner with Grow it Local to connect local and aspiring growers in the municipality.
By getting involved, you can see who and what’s growing locally, connect and share with local growers and food lovers, host or attend a workshop, share produce or find or list unused space for growing and help inspire the next generation of growers.
Residents, businesses, schools and community organisations in the City of Melbourne can sign up for free and get access to a handy library of workshops. Grow it Local hosts workshops each month where you can ‘Ask an Expert’ and have all your gardening questions answered live.
Free monthly workshops
Need some guidance in the garden? Join Grow it Local to connect with a community of like-minded growers and access free online gardening workshops.
Improve your gardening skills, share tips and tricks and save some money by learning how to grow your own food at home.
December workshop – How to save seeds for planting next season, with Kat Lavers
Have you ever dreamt about saving your own seed at home? Maybe you want to grow your own special variety of tomatoes, or you’d like to save the seeds from your sunflowers to grow again next year?
It’s not as hard as you might think! Join Kat Lavers, creator of The Plummery urban permaculture garden in Melbourne, for this online workshop and learn a heap of techniques for saving all types of seeds from plants that you grow at home.
This online workshop is free to all Grow It Local members. Sign up to join Kat live. He will also host a live Q&A session at the end of the workshop.
When: 3pm Saturday 9 December
Where: Hosted on Zoom