Flourish – Therapeutic Gardening with Melissa

15 Dec 2025 10.00am - 1.30pm

For Carers who love getting their hands dirty, Flourish supports your understanding and enjoyment of botanica.

  • Social connection
  • Harvest or plant to take home
  • Green tips and skills
  • Build community garden
  • Mindfulness
  • Lunch included

 

Session 9 – 17 November

❖Basic garden maintenance – feeding the soil and plants, watering, mulching, pruning and harvest.

  • Activity: using secateurs correctly. Add manure and compost to the balcony garden and plant up.

 

Session 10 – 15 December

❖ Seed and plant swap

❖Revisit gardening topics – Carers to provide a few topics they’d like to cover off again

  • Activity: sow summer seeds (time permitting)

 

Any questions, please contact:

Phone: 8850 4136

Email: chuck.cheng@accesshc.org.au

Details
Date:
15 Dec 2025
Time:
10.00am - 1.30pm
Location
North East Metro Mental Health and Wellbeing Connect Ivanhoe Hub, Suite 3, 50 Upper Heidelberg Road
Ivanhoe, Victoria 3079 Australia
Cost
$0
Organizer
North East Meto Mental Health and Wellbeing Connect
88504136
chuck.cheng@accesshc.org.au
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