Street gardening as a shared purpose

Street gardening as a shared purpose

From The Sydneyist by 89.7 Eastside FM

October 25, 2025 · 30 min

About this episode

Patrick Franklyn discusses the benefits of street gardening and its impact on community and biodiversity.

How can it enrich your life? Patrick Franklyn is a landscape architect and academic who spends his spare moments planting what he calls the ‘paddocks’ of his Tamarama street. Trees, herbs, vegetables feed the locals but also create biodiversity corridors through out our city, supporting everything from owls to insects. How to get started? What [...]Read More... from Street gardening as a shared purpose

People in this episode

Guest: Patrick Franklyn

Topics covered

  • street gardening
  • landscape architecture
  • biodiversity
  • community
  • urban gardening

Keywords

  • street gardening
  • landscape architect
  • biodiversity corridors
  • community gardening
  • urban agriculture

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Places: Tamarama

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