Food and garden

Find recipes and tips to reduce food waste, as well as information about composting, wormfarming and keeping chickens in your backyard. Join a local community garden and meet like-minded neighbours and learn how to grow your own food.

Turn your food scraps and garden clippings into nutrient-rich compost with support from Council. Our free Home Compost Initiative provides personalised, in-home guidance to help you set up and maintain a successful compost system — find out more and apply below.
Home Compost Initiative

Community gardens

Join our sustainable, organic and bush-friendly gardening community

Composting

Turn unavoidable food scraps into nutrient-rich fertiliser for your garden

Food waste

Reduce the amount of food wasted in your home and consider donating your time, money or food to organisations that fight hunger and poverty

Keeping backyard chickens

Keeping chickens as pets can be a rewarding experience

Love Your Trees

Find out what you can do to protect our urban forest and what Council is doing.

Plant-based eating

Eat a plant-based diet to reduce your environmental footprint.

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