Attractive Food Gardens, Scrappy Plants, and Outreach

Connecting Gardens, People, and Food

Adina Oosterwijk, the Community Greening Officer at the Royal Botanic Garden in Sydney, Australia talks about community outreach and making attractive home food gardens.

We chat with Adina Oosterwijk, the Community Greening Officer at the Royal Botanic Garden in Sydney, Australia.

We talk about:

• The Royal Botanic Garden in Sydney, which has three different sites that each have different growing conditions and plant collections

• Home food gardens that are productive and aesthetically pleasing

• Garden outreach to vulnerable communities

• Scrappy plants for tough growing conditions

• A tomato festival

Blue Mountains Botanic Garden

Australian Botanic Garden

The Royal Botanic Garden Sydney

Community Greening Van

Floral Art Workshop

Insect Hotel Workshop

Garden Harvest

Succulent Workshop