How easy is it to street garden?
Join us to find out on Tuesday, 13th September at our local library in South Melbourne.
Meet Emma, who along with other community-minded locals, are transforming streets in South Melbourne. Emma’s next project is the Melbourne Pollinator Corridor – an 8km community-led and maintained urban wildlife corridor for native bees and other pollinating insects. Come join us to learn more!
Booking essential – Light refreshments provided.
Meet Emma Cutting
Connecting humans to nature and their community through street gardens.
Emma Cutting is the Founder of The Heart Gardening Project (THGP), a community initiative joyfully connecting the community and nature through street gardening. The aim is to bring undernourished and under maintained public spaces back to life, creating thriving, uplifting gardens that not only bring joy to the human community, but more importantly help the wriggling and buzzing ecological community – bringing both worlds together in a positive way!
Now Emma is working on the Melbourne Pollinator Corridor – an Australian-first initiative! When finished, the Melbourne Pollinator Corridor will be an 8km community-led and maintained urban wildlife corridor for native bees and other pollinating insects linking the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne to Westgate Park. You can learn more here.
Emma has produced a handbook as a guide for helping nature thrive in our ‘concrete jungle’. She is well-known advocate for gardening in public spaces. Her ‘Bee Gardens’ in Moray and Cobden Streets are the start of an idea to create a pollinator corridor through our urban environment.
Learn about her experiences in street gardening in South Melbourne at the Emerald Hill Library – South Melbourne’s local library.