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Community

Growing people, plants and community.

NatureWhole works with community organisations to deliver practical horticulture and garden-based programs.

We use gardening, growing food and caring for shared spaces to bring people together, building practical skills, confidence, connection and wellbeing.

Raised timber beds full of greens, herbs and marigolds in the morning sun at the community garden

Community Gardens

Hands-on programs based around growing food, gardening and caring for shared spaces.

Four young people gathered around a raised bed, beetroot harvest and seed packets laid out between them

Youth Mentoring

Working alongside young people through practical garden and land-based activities, supporting skills, confidence, belonging and connection to place.

A young gardener giving two thumbs up beside newly built corrugated raised beds

Wellbeing & Mental Health

Small-group horticulture programs providing meaningful activity, time outside, connection and a sense of purpose.

Working together.

Programs are shaped around the people, place and organisation: using an existing garden, developing a new space, or combining the two.

Beds of brassicas and salad greens under a wire trellis arch in the evening sun
In the garden

Beds built, seeds in, food picked.

The ordinary shape of a community program: a space worth turning up to, and something growing in it.

  • Raised timber beds full of greens, herbs and marigolds in the morning sun at the community garden
  • Four young people gathered around a raised bed, beetroot harvest and seed packets laid out between them
  • A young gardener giving two thumbs up beside newly built corrugated raised beds
  • Beds of brassicas and salad greens under a wire trellis arch in the evening sun
  • Young lettuce, brassica and beet seedlings coming up through straw mulch
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Let’s work out what fits.

Have a yarn about what might work in your community.

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