We’re happy to announce we’re working with Eat Well Tasmania and Sustainable Living Tasmania to hold our third annual “Home Harvest” garden tour in the Hobart region!  Special thanks to the City of Hobart for funding this great initiative.

Home Harvest is going to be a one day event on Saturday March 5th, 2022 in and around Hobart where productive gardens open their gates to invite the public in to have a look – best day ever right?! The main aim is that people are inspired to start (or continue) to grow their own food to increase local resilience and for all round general health and wellbeing.

Right now we’re doing a big callout to find more productive gardens in the Hobart municipality who’d like to be included. For more information, read on below…

Applications have now closed – the event is coming up on March 5th – you can book here!

HOST INFORMATION

To be a host you need these things:

• A productive garden! This can be tiny, small, large or massive – there are no limitations on scale and we aim to show a large range of diverse gardens of all shapes and sizes. A productive garden can include vegetables beds, orchards, animals, compost systems – or it might be a balcony garden with one herb garden. We want them all!
• To be in the either in, or very close to the Hobart municipality.
• Up for a chat – they’ll be a lot of questions on the day and you’ll be required to show people around and explain what’s happening in your patch.
• Available on March 5^th for a set amount of hours. The hours you open your gate are up to you and will be clearly promoted so people only come in this time.
• Passionate about growing food in urban spaces!
• You can be a private garden or a community space and we wholeheartedly welcome people who are renting.
• Your garden should be a real, productive garden – it does not have to be picture-perfect. Visitors want to learn and get inspired, and if you meet all the above criteria, your garden will be perfect as it is.

Keen? click here to sign up today!

WHAT SUPPORT DO YOU RECEIVE TO DO THIS?

• There is a small fee to reimburse you for your time of $100.
• We will provide you with a “Home Harvest” host sign that can be attached to your fence/gate so people know you are part of the tour and can easily find you.
• Good Life Permaculture will organise all bookings in consultation with you so you can control how many people come and when.
• Prior to the day we’ll drop off some free gardening resources you can hand out to visitors to help them get growing and composting.
• Staying COVID safe: We take our communities health and wellbeing very seriously. We will drop off covid-safe information posters, visitor tracking sheets and hand sanitiser. You will need to tell us your maximum number of visitors at any given time (1 person per 2sqm is the current guideline, but you can certainly make it less).

PRIVACY

We respect your privacy and won’t publish your home address on our website. Instead, we’ll provide a brief profile of each garden on our website and a general location in Hobart (i.e. suburb). Once people book in to your garden, we’ll provide only those people with your address details in a private email.

IS HOME HARVEST FREE FOR FOLKS?

Yes, for people wanting to come along on the day there’s no charge at all.

Applications have now closed – the event is coming up on March 5th – you can book here!

Home Harvest is a partnership project between Good Life Permaculture, Eat Well Tasmania, supported by Sustainable Living Tasmania and funded by the City of Hobart.