About Grassroots Gardeners

Grassroots Gardeners was created by a group of 7 like-minded people who all completed a local council-run 'Climate Change: Be the Change' workshop, in Mosman Park, Western Australia. The workshop was a facilitator for grassroots projects and actions created by participants in order to foster greater community connection and action for the environment. Our group wanted to focus on creating more sustainable homes and communities, and have some fun doing it! Grassroots Gardeners was borne from this focus as a way to connect with others in our neighbourhoods and share this vision. We are an independent, not-for-profit and unfunded organisation built simply on our love and enthusiasm for our precious environment.

 

The Grassroots Gardeners network is made up of smaller neighbourhood groups throughout Western Australia (and maybe even beyond!) that individually and collectively want to create positive grassroots change for the environment. 

 

We hope to promote and foster valuable home practices such as:

• Growing vegetables and fruit

• Growing native plants 

• Composting & worm farms

• Controlling weeds and pests organically

• Sharing seeds

• Sharing produce

• Sharing skills, resources and tools

• Building community and friendships

• Sharing information and experiences

• Reusing and recycling

• Water conservation

And have fun as we do it!

As an overall group, we hold events for our members, visiting gardens, inviting guest speakers, hold 'crop swaps' and are a support mechanism information centre and promoter for all the neighbourhood groups in our network.

Our values

Simplicity – grateful enjoyment of the simple pleasures in life.

Harmony – living sustainably with moderate and mindful consumption.

Respect – for the needs of our environment and each other

Empowerment- each individual can make a difference and our smallest actions have large effects.

Friendship, community and fun - Positive connection with each other and our environment.

We can all help ourselves and each other towards a better future.

For more information on Grassroots Gardeners, contact our head gnome, Jen Horne, at garnome@bigpond.com