Gardening can help promote broader community resilience. When flooding hit southeast Queensland in earl 2022, closing arterial roads and sending some suburbs underwater, much of Brisbane’s westside became cut off from supermarkets and other suppliers.
Living on the newly created “island” of Mount Crosby, Dr Ketah Silvester used produce from her two-year-old food forest to help feed her community.
“We went into the garden multiple times a day and just took boot loads of all of our edibles up to the corner store because their shelves were bare,” she says. “These are just plants that you can grow like in your everyday garden, but when an emergency hits, you can eat these ones.”
We interviewed Ketah at her property and got some tips on how to create your own amazing edible garden. Click here: https://grow.pipmagazine.com.au/healthier-gardeners-harvest-high/