Living Green

Join us in making our city more sustainable and vibrant! Live green with sustainability workshops, hands-on environmental activities, and educational programs. Our programs also champion sustainability advocacy and partnerships with community. Together, we can make Hume City an even greener and more vibrant place to live!

Live Green Events

Let's Grow Hume Workshop - Saturday 12th April

12 April 2025

Seed Saving Workshop at Roxburgh Park Community Garden

Sunbury Community Garden Working Bees and Open Days

13 April 2025

The Sunbury Community Garden Members Working Bees will take place on the following dates, is also a great opportunity for garden tours.

Gardens for Wildlife: identifying and managing weeds - Mickleham North

22 April 2025

Learn to identify and remove weeds, choose local plants, and create a thriving, eco-friendly garden in Hume!

Bushtucker walk and talk at Westmeadows

26 April 2025

Aunty Jo Russell will yarn about Aboriginal cultural plants at the Westmeadows Indigenous Community Garden for City Nature Challenge 2025.

Moth Night at Mt Ridley NCR

26 April 2025

Join the Entomological Society of Victoria to identify moths and nocturnal animals using iNaturalist for City Nature Challenge in Mickleham.

Guided nature walk at Malcolm Creek Craigieburn

28 April 2025

Explore Malcolm Creek in Craigieburn with Hume's Land and Biodiversity Team. Take photos of plants and animals to upload to iNaturalist.

Guided nature walk at Stewarts Lane Reserve, Sunbury

28 April 2025

Explore Stewarts Lane Nature Reserve with Hume City's Biodiversity team. Take photos of plants and animals to upload to iNaturalist.

Gardens for Wildlife: identifying and managing weeds - Dallas

29 April 2025

Learn to identify and remove weeds, choose local plants, and create a thriving, eco-friendly garden in Hume!

Gardens for Wildlife: identifying and managing weeds - Sunbury

01 May 2025

Learn to identify and remove weeds, choose local plants, and create a thriving, eco-friendly garden in Hume!

Fruit tree pruning workshop - Westmeadows Indigenous Community Garden

04 May 2025

Learn fruit tree pruning skills for your backyard fruit trees.

Fruit tree pruning workshop - Sunbury Community Garden

04 May 2025

Learn fruit tree pruning skills for your backyard fruit trees.

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Discover Nature in Hume

There are many natural areas within Hume which are waiting to be explored. Hume includes a range of indigenous plants, threatened vegetation communities, wildlife, waterways and sites of cultural and geological significance.

Hume Enviro Champions

The Hume Enviro Champions program provides free training to community members to develop, implement and evaluate environmental community projects.

Live Green Program

Supporting sustainable living in Hume City through community programs, workshops, events, and sustainability education in local schools.

Nature Stewards Program

Become a Nature Steward and learn about your local environment, meet like-minded people, and find ways to get outdoors and volunteer

Sustainability Taskforce

The Sustainability Taskforce is Council's community environmental advisory committee and allows community members to contribute to Council’s environmental strategies and programs.

Gardens for Wildlife

Gardens for Wildlife supports households, schools and businesses to create a wildlife-friendly garden.

Let's Grow Hume

Let's Grow Hume is an program encouraging residents to grow food at home.

TheLive Green Plan 2021-2026(PDF, 3MB)outlines our key themes: energy saving, climate change action, waste reduction, recycling, composting, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ecological practices, connecting with nature, and sustainable food growing.