no cost/easy actions
- Attend one of Council’s free Create Your Own Eden workshops or roadshows to learn about composting & growing vegetables
- Plant a deciduous tree to shade sun-facing windows during summer
- Use your lawn clippings as mulch to reduce evaporation form the soil
- Get rid of garden pests & weeds
- Replace synthetic fertilisers with organic fertilisers
- Join a local garden club
- Buy your fruit & vegetables from the local Farmers’ Market
- Eat local & seasonal organically grown food
some cost/medium effort actions
- Join a local seed saver group
- Plant a fruit or nut tree
- Start a vegetable garden at home
- Use organic gardening techniques
- Use a push mower rather than an electric or petrol mower
- Use mulch & compost to reduce evaporation & ease stress on plants
- Choose native plants & trees for your garden that are eco-sourced from your region & appropriate for your area
- Choose organic food products where possible as production methods involve a lower energy footprint
- Set up composting, worm farming or a bokashi system at home
more cost/more effort actions
- Set up an open orchard in your neighbourhood
- Help your neighbours/community set up a vegetable garden
- Turn your lawn into a no-dig garden
- Grow all your own vegetables & fruit
- Install a greywater system in your garden
