Sow & Grow

Take our seeds, plant them, then take them home to grow! 🌱

Our inaugural Sow & Grow pilot program is a casual drop-in session for City of Melville residents to plant seasonal produce seeds to take home before planting later in the season.

How it works

Bring your vessels to plant your seeds in, then drop-in to the City of Melville EcoHub any time during the session. Fill your vessels with soil provided by the EcoHub, then select a few varieties of seasonal produce seeds to plant. When you’re done sowing, sign up to Grow It Local for FREE growing guides and gardening workshops.

You must be a City of Melville resident to attend. Please bring a current ID or rates notice showing your name and City of Melville address.

What seeding ‘vessels’ you can bring 🌼

Get creative and reuse what you have at home! Some ideas include:

• Old seedling trays

• Toilet rolls

• Egg cartons

• Paper shopping bags or newspaper folded into pots

• Clean containers like butter tubs, yoghurt pots, or strawberry punnets

While you’re at the EcoHub

• Don’t miss the Piney Lakes Community Garden Open Garden from 9.00am to 11.00am. Enjoy a guided tour of the beautiful space and pick up some FOGO compost for sale to enrich your garden soil (subject to availability).
• Sign up for a FREE Grow It Local account – Australia’s best platform for easy-to-learn, step-by-step gardening guides and workshops to grow a patch at home that’s the envy of the neighbourhood! *Available to City of Melville residents. Check your local Council website to see if they are a Grow It Local partner.

Length

This is a drop-in style event that will be open over a 2 hour period.

Start time

This event is open for guests to come and go as they please.

Location

Outside – Bottom Level

Requirements

BYO vessel to plant seedlings in.

Type of event and expectations

Family friendly social event – This is a casual event, all ages welcome, please be respectful to each other and your environment. Caregivers are responsible for the health and safety of their children at all times. Guests assume responsibility for their own safety.

Accessibility

Standing, walking and sitting

Disabled parking is available at front of EcoHub, rooms are located on multiple levels via a ramp and toilets are available within the venue. For specific access requirements please feel free to call or email EcoHub at (08)9364 0191 or ecohub@melville.wa.gov.au

Directions to EcoHub

Please consider using public transportation. A bus stop, just a 2-minute walk away, is conveniently located near EcoHub and services multiple routes.

EcoHub is located at 555 Leach Highway, Winthrop in the Piney Lakes Reserve. To reach us, if heading westbound, take the first left after Murdoch Drive on Leach Highway. If coming from the Fremantle area, continue on Leach Hwy across Murdoch Drive and use the designated U-turn just after the lights to move to the westbound lanes. Go back through the lights at Murdoch Drive and take the first left. Please park in the signed public carpark.

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Recycling hub

Bring the following items in household quantities for recycling at EcoHub: household batteries, printer cartridges, light globes, mobile phones and chargers, plastic bread tags, oral care products, plastic bottle lids, metal bottle lids, beer can clips and corks.

For more recycling option check out Bottle Top Hill recycling events held at EcoHub monthly, second Saturday 9.00am to 11.00am.