My Smart Garden: 2023 Winner – Thriving environment
My Smart Garden is the Community Champion award winner in the Premier's Sustainability Awards 2023 – Thriving environment category. My Smart Garden is a free sustainable gardening program supporting residents to transform their outdoor spaces, be they small rental balconies or larger suburban gardens, into productive, functional gardens.
My Smart Garden tackles climate change, biodiversity loss, and resource consumption, and increases health and wellbeing through food security, cost-of-living help, improving physical and mental health, and providing social connection.
Participants report that they feel more positive, that My Smart Garden is saving them money, and that the program is influencing other sustainability practices like buying local, cutting food waste, avoiding chemical use, participating in revegetation programs, and reducing consumption.
My Smart Garden is a cross-council collaboration between Hobsons Bay, Moonee Valley, Maribyrnong, Brimbank, Wyndham, Stonnington, Merri-bek, and Yarra City councils.
