My practice as a visual ecologist includes facilitating, teaching, creating and working with gardens. I become a ‘Hands-on ecoliteracy’ educator, fostering immersive engagements.

Through gardens we can create small ‘laboratory’ experiences to learn from/ with the living world. Creating soil, composts, planting, shaping, mulching and growing help us understand energy and matter in an ecosystem and foster ongoing relationships with the living world. Telling bio-cultural stories of plants from throughout the world give us a way into understanding geographies and histories.

My practice as a ‘Hands- on ecoliteracy’ educator leads me to speak to our surroundings, the visitors that fly into our outdoor classrooms and weather systems we inhabit whilst being outside.

This ecological storytelling creates worlds within worlds as we explore the embodied experience of chemistry, molecules, phase changes, sounds, smells, creatures and plants.

I have been working as Garden Educator since 2018 at Thornbury Primary School growing biomes throughout the school with the school community. The school has an extensive indigenous food and fibre garden, a sensory herb garden, food gardens, orchards, butterfly gardens, propagating hothouses and an epic series of composting systems. This year we have composted at least 100 kgs of used coffee grains from our local cafe!! And grown lot’s of edible foods.