The Sustainable Landscape Company in Port Melbourne, Victoria | Landscape company

The Sustainable Landscape Company

Locality: Port Melbourne, Victoria

Address: Unit 1, 5 Rocklea Drive 3207 Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.theslc.com.au

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25.01.2022 Nice article discussing how Biofilta urban farming systems are helping home food growing at a time when people have restricted movement, and happy that our farming systems are able to help. There are many benefits - reduced food bills, exercise, reducing waste by creating compost and then food, mental health, biodiversity in our cities - the list goes on. Nice image of the productive courtyard garden designed and built by Australian Ecosystems earlier at Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC). The Sustainable Landscape Company can design and build urban farms of any size for communities and workplaces #resilience #connectedcommunities #circulareconomy#natureinourcities #foodsecurity https://www.architectureanddesign.com.au//increasing-deman

25.01.2022 Scenes from the spring garden! Emerging from winter gives us the chance to plant for spring and summer. This wonderful home kitchen garden has heirloom sugar snap peas, some adorable asparagus, quince blossoms, and broadbeans! What’s in your garden?

24.01.2022 This image of water birds enjoying the wetland we planted at Edgar’s Creek evokes so much peace and joy! This landscape was designed by Spiire, and has over 130,000 locally indigenous plants that were grown by our nursery Australian Ecosystems The ponds work to filter pollution and improve stormwater quality as it flows down the creek. ... Photo by Will Hamilton-Coates Photography

23.01.2022 The Sustainable Landscape Company have had the privilege to design and build this productive community farm for Glen Junor at Gisborne, Victoria. The farm features Melbourne designed and manufactured Biofilta wicking beds as the centrepiece of food production. This is a really exciting project and we hope to see efficient urban farms built on new estates and retrofitted into existing communities for all the benefits they bring. ... This farm was built and planted out 6 weeks ago and had its first harvest for charity this week #foodsecurity #resilience #naturebasedsolutions

23.01.2022 We are very happy with this beautiful first stage of what is aiming to be a much larger community farm at Glen Junor at Gisborne north of Melbourne. The first stage of the farm will produce over 1.5 tonnes of fresh produce per annum, with much to be donated to local food charities. The farm has been designed with composting bays, fruit trees, raised water efficient Biofilta wicking beds, wind protection panels and hoops and netting to protect against pests, and features a beautiful refurbished old farm shed. The farm was planted out 5 weeks ago and there is plenty of food being harvested alreadyeventually

22.01.2022 We are coming into seed collection season again, with grasslands, woodlands, wetlands, heathlands, coastal vegetation communities and other ecosystems flowering and getting ready to set seed. Our skilled team of seed collectors are out in the environment and carefully collecting seed for our upcoming planting projects. We love the diversity of shapes, colours and forms of native seeds. Seed collection is a highly skilled task, and good seed collectors have great botanical knowledge, eye for detail, patience and intuition. Australian Ecosystems’ seed bank contains several thousand seed lots, and allows us to produce several million plants per annum for landscape, biodiversity and waterway restoration projects #biodiversity #protectnature #naturebasedsolutions

22.01.2022 It’s been a privilege to design and build this beautiful biodiverse landscape and productive urban farm at Live At The Cape in Cape Paterson in Victoria. This super bill busting home has no gas bill, annual energy bills of around $200, can power a long range electric car on sunlight and has an innovative Foodcube urban farm that can produce over 600 kgs of fresh produce per annum. #carbonneutral #cleanenergy #circulareconomy #UrbanBiodiversity #urbancooling https://fb.watch/3lJQmtWZi4/

21.01.2022 This is cool - edible streetscape in Ashburton using Melbourne manufactured wicking beds made by our sister company Biofilta. #waterefficient #circulareconomy #foodgrowingarchitecture https://www.facebook.com/1607603096150889/posts/2674144002830121/?d=n

21.01.2022 Our friends at Biofilta made this amazing little film highlightin the Kensington Stockyard Food Garden. This productive urban farm is such a great asset to the community, and manager Nina conveys a very poignant message about the importance of knowledge and experience in growing food. We love to see community garden projects like this popping up around Melbourne!

18.01.2022 We loved the opportunity to landscape this beautiful carbon neutral home at Live At The Cape built by Ecoliv Buildings in Victoria’s Bass Coast Nice wicking bed urban farm by Biofilta https://www.facebook.com/146696682137923/posts/1884151371725770/?vh=e

16.01.2022 Planting for birds Tubular, red flowers are a good indicator that birds are the main pollinators of a plant Birds are attracted to large red flowers, like on the Grevillea and Correa in these pictures, so plant similar species to encourage feathered visitors to your garden Photos by Will Hamilton-Coates Photography

16.01.2022 Another shot of our wonderful maintenance team Australian Ecosystems. At this project, we maintain the nature strips and garden beds, remove rubbish, look after trees, mulch for pest and disease control, weed, and replace any plants that need it. #landscaping #landscapemaintenance #landscapeconstruction #nativeplants

16.01.2022 Cities are characteristically filled with massive amounts of concrete-- glass and steel buildings rising up over the skyline, and large, hulking, often unwelcoming infrastructure elements. This is why we believe firmly in the power of plants to enliven and enrich the urban form. These plantings we have done at Middle Gorge Station really highlight this principle, soothing the harsh lines of human construction, and beckoning you to sit down and enjoy the landscape. www.theslc.com.au

15.01.2022 Happy Friday everyone! This is a wetland and parkland reserve that we completed in Rockbank for Welsh property group. Following designs from spiire, Australian Ecosystems grew over 35,000 aquatic and terrestrial plants for this project at our native plant nursery in Bangholme. Our construction team completed the creation of garden beds, installation of jutemat and mulching, planting of the wetland and terrestrial areas, topsoiling, grass establishment, advanced tree planting,... as well as structures, fencing and rockwork for the project. Our maintenance crew are looking after the site to make sure it becomes a thriving ecosystem into the future. We installed a viewing platform at this reserve that has a sign that reads: "This wetland helps protect the environment by capturing and cleaning stormwater from local roads and roofs. This constructed systems mimics and natural filtration cycle, cleaning the water as it travels through the ponds. This cleaning helps protect Kororoit Creek and the surrounding ecosystem. It is also a great habitat asset to support local biodiversity." This is why we do what we do, and we love doing it. #naturebasedsolutions #urbancooling #urbanbiodiversity https://vimeo.com/447724366

14.01.2022 Nice footage of another large area of urban habitat completed by our team at Woolert, North of Melbourne - this was a large project involving the supply, installation and maintenance of 130,000 predominantly grassland plants. It is now a healthy piece of habitat that provides a lot of benefits including open space, amenity, water filtration, habitat and urban cooling. The team also identified, retained and protected a number of remnant grassland areas within the creekline corridor #biolinks #urbanbiodiversity https://vimeo.com/444419155

13.01.2022 We have been working hard with our parent company Australian Ecosystems to transform the previously-degraded cattle-grazing site of Live At The Cape into a biodiversity-rich sustainable landscape. This forward-thinking sustainable home developer sees the value in not just preserving and restoring biodiversity, but also encouraging human-nature interactions for the local community. We collected seed and cuttings from remnant vegetation, propagating thousands of native and loc...ally indigenous plants at our nursery. Replanting these into the landscape has encouraged wildlife to proliferate, with residents counting over 99 species of birds at The Cape this year! We have built creeklines, wetlands, and parks; as well as walking and cycling trails throughout the estate. This allows for residents and the wider community to experience the biodiversity of the site, encouraging knowledge and respect for the plants and animals of the area. Read more about our work on BSUD at The Cape in our blogpost: http://www.theslc.com.au//biodiversity-sensitive-urban-des

10.01.2022 Super solid construction at Saltwater Coast Point Cook done by our Australian Ecosystems team. We designed the timber boardwalk, constructing this as well as all of the hardscaping and landscaping. Our nursery also supplied tens of thousands of plants for the wetlands and surrounding landscape; which we will maintain for the next two years. #landscapeconstruction #landscapemaintenance #sustainablelandscape

10.01.2022 We believe in the power of food to connect communities and the environment Read about how and why we incorporate food into different landscape features, from residential backyards to large community farms. http://www.theslc.com.au/blog

08.01.2022 We designed and constructed this new edible courtyard at the Bass Coast Shire Council. It has become a place for council staff to come together and grow fresh produce to support community groups and their food relief programs. TSLC specialise in building sustainable, edible landscapes. ... We believe that it is important for individuals and communities to engage in food growing and we work with our sister company, Biofilta to construct edible landscapes across Victoria. It is a privilege to work with people like Sharni Mann from the Bass Coast Shire Council and Greg Thompson from Pical- Phillip Island Community and Learning Centre Inc. Both Sharni and Greg are working to expand community food growing efforts throughout the Bass Coast Shire. We had a chance to sit down with them and chat about food security and sustainability in the Bass Coast Shire and what the council and Pical are doing to prepare the community for a sustainable future. Check it out.

06.01.2022 Interesting to see the various challenges and approaches to pop up urban greening in our new Covid world discussed in this article in today's Age. https://www.theage.com.au//outdoor-dining-puts-greenery-on

04.01.2022 This is a sneaky peek at a very exciting project we are working on in Torquay

04.01.2022 http://www.theslc.com.au/blog You may have heard of Water-Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD), but have you heard of Biodiversity-Sensitive Urban Design (BSUD)? We have been working with Live At The Cape to improve the landscape that the estate has been built within, transforming a cattle-farming field into a diverse ecosystem with wetlands, native plantings, earthworks, and more. These initiatives have encouraged an increase in bird, insect, frog, and native mammal populations th...roughout the estate. Read more about BSUD at The Cape in our most recent blogpost... http://www.theslc.com.au/blog

01.01.2022 We hold a lot of Melbourne's floral diversity in our hands. Our seedbank at our Australian Ecosystems Nursery is filled with seed collected by our botanists from remnant vegetation stands across the Melbourne region. This enables us to grow a huge variety of species to provenance, meaning plants will be better adapted to the local environs they are planted in. #sustainablelandscape #nativeplants #seedbank #australiannativeplants #indigenousplants