Little Growers describes climate‑resilient food projects, asks city to partner on lagoon and park work

Camille Hadley, co‑founder and executive director of Little Growers Inc., told the City of Melbourne council that her nonprofit has expanded from a front‑yard gardening project into a set of climate resilience and food security programs that the group hopes the city will support.

Hadley described projects funded by federally supported grants and private foundations, and she outlined specific local activities that Little Growers is carrying out. “We began to teach through a series of workshops that we called Make a Green Noise,” Hadley said, describing an environmental and climate‑justice workshop series that she said reached about 150 residents per event and has had six sessions so far. “We are getting lots of weather information … and the residents are the ones that are collecting and reporting on that data,” she said, referring to 11 weather stations the group installed in South Melbourne…