Peter Dawe has been a Youth Community Greening Coordinator for the last five years and has been delivering environmental education to students and communities for the last 30 years. This experience combined with a Masters of Environmental Management, Bachelor of Education and Diploma of Sustainability provide him with the expertise, knowledge and passion to deliver such an important message and program. With the help of John T Reid Charitable Trusts', Youth Community Greening has established 'Habitat Gardens' in rural areas across New South Wales. A summary of those gardens can be downloaded as an iBook for free here.
Our Community Greening team love to recycle, repurpose, and upcycle. Here Peter shares some of his favourite tips and shows you how to make a herb tower.
A school habitat garden is not only a wonderful learning opportunity for the students and school community, but provides valuable habitat to the local wildlife community too.
Yuin and Nabil are two young men getting stuck into horticulture as part of their Year 10 work experience and Youth Community Greening.
Youth Community Greening gardens are bringing generations together and helping people heal.
Over the last few months Youth Community Greening has planted over 50 eucalyptus trees across eight schools in NSW - with many more to come.
Create a garden that engages the senses of sight, sound, touch, taste and smell.