Creating a Sustainable Garden

Discover ways to create a sustainable garden and contribute to a healthier environment from your own home. Learn more about native habitat gardening, growing vegetables, planting up your nature strip and composting food scraps.

Council offers FREE indigenous (locally native) seedlings and garden support to help you increase biodiversity and create habitat for wildlife in your own backyard.

Monash Gardens for Wildlife: Indigenous plants and habitat gardening

Join our Gardens for Wildlife program and we’ll help you to create an indigenous garden in your own property. By creating a habitat garden, you'll be increasing biodiversity which is good for the environment and our local wildlife.

Gardens for Harvest: Growing Food

Producing your own fruit and vegetables at home is a great way to save money, enjoy time outdoors and reduce your dependence on food transported from far away or with lots of packaging.

Nature strip planting project

Want to beautify your nature strip?
Join the project and receive vouchers for FREE seedlings and garden supplies.

Composting at home

Composting your food scraps and garden waste is one easy way to reduce landfill and protect the environment.

Community Gardens

If you don’t have space for your own garden or are looking for a gardening group to join, you may consider joining a local community garden.

Habitat Structures for Wildlife

Local wildlife needs water sources, shelter and nesting spots to thrive. By building your own garden habitat structures, you can attract native animals and insects.

Weeds

Weeds are plants that invade and thrive in environments in which they do not naturally occur. These plants alter the natural balance in the local ecology and threaten biodiversity by competing with indigenous plants that are a valuable food source for native birds and fauna.

Keeping backyard chickens

Keeping chickens as pets can be a rewarding experience, especially for children. Find out how you can keep your chickens, yourself and your family safe and healthy.