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Walking Together: Earth Day 2022

By: Alexandra Crosby May 12 '22 Date: May 12, 2022 Comments: 0

Thank you to everyone who walked with us in Green Square on Earth Day 2022. This special event helped us launch the Green Square Atlas of Civic Ecologies. Thank you to Lin Wei and Astra Howard for photo documentation.  

Download the Green Square Atlas of Civic Ecologies

By: Alexandra Crosby Mar 07 '22 Date: March 7, 2022 Comments: 0

Civic ecologies are stewardship activities that combine care for the environment and care for place. The Green Square Atlas of Civic Ecologies shares stories of environmental champions who live and work in Sydney’s Green Square precinct, along with simple tips to green and nourish your neighbourhood no matter where you live. The Green Square Atlas is […]

bamuru (kangaroo grass)

By: Alexandra Crosby Feb 23 '22 Date: February 23, 2022 Comments: 0

words by Shannon Foster, D’harawal eora Knowledge Keeper & registered Sydney Traditional Owner One of my earliest memories of learning culture from my D’harawal eora father, was about understanding plants and what you could and couldn’t eat. I was always amazed to realise that you could actually live off the gardens and earth around you? […]

Jess

By: Alexandra Crosby Feb 23 '22 Date: February 23, 2022 Comments: 0

Jess Miller is an Alexandria resident and a former councillor with the City of Sydney. The first thing that comes to mind when Jess thinks about Green Square is a place in transition. It’s home to a wide variety of civic ecologies activities, from grassroots to city-led initiatives. The diversity of ecological activity within the […]

OzHarvest

By: Alexandra Crosby Feb 23 '22 Date: February 23, 2022 Comments: 0

Richard Watson is the NSW State Manager of charity food rescue organisation OzHarvest, which is based in Alexandria. Founded 18 years ago by social entrepreneur Ronnie Kahn, OzHarvest ‘rescues’ food that would otherwise wind up in landfill and redistributes it to 400 charities who make it available to their customers and clients. There’s enough food […]

Astra

By: Alexandra Crosby Feb 23 '22 Date: February 23, 2022 Comments: 0

Astra is the Coordinator Local Connections within the Community Programs department at Waverley Council, a role that includes managing gardening initiatives in public spaces across the LGA. There is a community garden hub in Bondi Junction, 15 shared gardens in parks and reserves as well as numerous verge gardens. It’s been encouraging to receive so […]

Alice

By: Alexandra Crosby Feb 23 '22 Date: February 23, 2022 Comments: 0

Alice has been a resident of Alexandria since 2020. She speaks mainly Italian at home. She has a strong sense of community, believing that belonging is about the small things: people who are interested in their neighbours, the local coffee place where they pronounce her Italian name correctly, and being one of the many local […]

Maria Fernanda Cardoso

By: Alexandra Crosby Feb 22 '22 Date: February 22, 2022 Comments: 0

Maria Fernanda Cardoso is a Sydney-based Colombian artist and gardener. In 2018, she created While I Live I Grow, a project referencing the former wetlands in Green Square that sustained the first industry in the area. The artwork, which is located at multiple sites around Green Square, is a living installation of Australian native bottle […]

Maquel

By: Alexandra Crosby Feb 21 '22 Date: February 21, 2022 Comments: 0

Climate scientist Maquel Brandimarti has lived in a cottage on Belmont Street for the past 10 years. An avid gardener, Maquel recently completed a PhD on kangaroo ecologies at the University of Sydney. In her back garden there are chickens in a coop and a resident ringtail possum. The garden is shaded by a big […]

David and Masou

By: Alexandra Crosby Feb 16 '22 Date: February 16, 2022 Comments: 0

One of the most unexpected green spaces in Rosebery is the verge along Princess Avenue. Here, native trees and grasses mix with flowers, edible herbs and succulents, and front gardens vary from the abundant to the minimalist and the manicured to the whimsy. But it wasn’t always this way. David bought his warehouse in the […]

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