Attractive Food Gardens, Scrappy Plants, and Outreach

We chat with Adina Oosterwijk, the Community Greening Officer at the Royal Botanic Garden in Sydney, Australia.We talk about:* Home food gardens that are productive and aesthetically pleasing* A tomato festival* The Royal Botanic Garden (https://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au) in Sydney, which has three different sites that each have different growing conditions and plant collections* Garden outreach to vulnerable communities* Scrappy plants for tough growing conditions
We chat with Adina Oosterwijk, the Community Greening Officer at the Royal Botanic Garden in Sydney, Australia.

We talk about:

  • Home food gardens that are productive and aesthetically pleasing
  • A tomato festival
  • The Royal Botanic Garden in Sydney, which has three different sites that each have different growing conditions and plant collections
  • Garden outreach to vulnerable communities
  • Scrappy plants for tough growing conditions


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Attractive Food Gardens, Scrappy Plants, and Outreach
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