Season 3, Episode 9. Naomi Lacey Talks Community Gardens

Naomi Lacey

Naomi is a permaculturalist passionate about promoting healthy food systems, sustainable lifestyles and cultivating community. She helped to establish the first community garden in the satellite city of Palmerston near Darwin and from there became involved with Community Gardens Australia (CGA) in 2015, taking on the role of President in 2019. 

Naomi believes that community gardens have a pivotal role to play in ensuring better health outcomes for Australians, building community, addressing the climate crisis, reducing waste and educating people. 

She has even completed a Churchill Fellowship on the topic!
Be inspired by listening to Naomi talk about how community gardens future proof our food systems and why more support for urban localised systems is so critical.

“A lot of people do really rely on their community gardens to put that extra bit of food on the table  for their families to share with friends and so on. But probably the main thing that people get  - and we get this in our survey every year - and the main reason why people participate in community gardening is for the community aspect. The food's a bonus.”