About Us
The Sydney Edible Garden Trail, is a once a year urban edible garden trail run throughout Sydney, celebrating the many ways that Sydney residents are creating food security, building self-reliance, saving money and the environment, while enjoying the health benefits of homegrown fruit and veg. Our aim is to encourage and inspire growing edible produce in street gardens, home gardens and public spaces across Sydney.
This community event showcases sustainable practices such as mulching for water conservation, recycling and composting to increase soil fertility and reduce landfill, planting to encourage bees, home food production to increase food security, and organic growing techniques to reduce chemical use. Learn about aquaponics, worm farms, wicking beds, banana circles, caring for poultry, companion planting, crop swaps and more.
As a volunteer-run, community not-for-profit event we’re proud that profits go to building and improving school and community edible gardens.
Meet the Team
Angela Bichler
Committee Member - President
Angela balances two passions—running her own accounting practice and growing food on her family’s farm in the Hawkesbury. With cows, sheep, poultry, and an evolving food forest, she’s committed to creating a self-sufficient home. Even after eight years of refining her garden’s infrastructure and techniques, she remains an eager student of organic gardening and regenerative agriculture, always looking to both share insights and deepen her understanding. Taking the reins from the founders, she continues the mission of inspiring others to embrace homegrown food.
Mark Udovitch
Committee Member - Vice President
By day, Mark works as a radiation therapist in South Western Sydney, helping patients navigate complex treatments. But after work, his favourite way to decompress is in his garden. Fascinated by homegrown food since his early twenties, he spent years dreaming of the day he could cultivate his own abundant harvest. Now, with his backyard, he has fully embraced the journey, having scoured every corner of the internet in his research and diving wholeheartedly into growing fruit and vegetables.
Craig Buchanan
Committee Member - Treasurer
Craig has spent more than 30 years growing edible gardens, building and maintaining productive spaces across five homes, and now, establishing his sixth and hopefully final garden. As a dedicated home gardener, he relishes the opportunity to experience the diverse gardens showcased on the Sydney Edible Garden Trail and looks forward to many more years of discovering and learning from fellow growers.
Emma Fuller
Committee Member - Secretary
Nestled in the Hawkesbury, Emma finds deep joy in growing food, raising chickens, and embracing the rhythm of a sustainable lifestyle. What began as a way to support her mental health as a new mother has blossomed into a lifelong passion. Dedicated to sharing her gardening knowledge, she delights in teaching her children the wonders of homegrown food and the rewards of keeping chickens. For her, every day spent in the garden is a day well lived.
Pauline Grech
Committee Member
Pauline’s gardening journey began with cherished childhood memories spent in her Maltese grandmother’s vegetable gardens—first in Canada, then in Australia. As a parent, she’s continued that tradition, teaching her daughter about the heritage-rich fruits and vegetables that define Maltese cuisine. Gardening remains her way of staying connected to her late grandmothers, growing Mediterranean produce using their time-honoured techniques and cooking traditional dishes with homegrown ingredients. On her suburban Sydney block, she blends permaculture practices to support her thriving fruit trees, perennial vegetables, herbs, and flowers—proving that, for her, gardening is truly in her DNA.
Evelyn Ivinson
Committee Member
Whether tending to her garden or guiding others in workshops, Evelyn finds her joy in growing food and fostering community. A firm believer that any day ending with dirt under her nails is a good one, she shares her passion for permaculture, organic gardening, biodiversity, sustainability, and seed sharing with children, community groups, and aged care residents. On a lifelong journey of learning, she’s dedicated to inspiring others to cultivate their own green spaces.
Monica Scholtz
Committee Member
By day, Monica navigates the digital world, but in her spare time, she’s happiest with her hands in the soil. Despite growing up with a permaculture-loving dad, her edible gardening journey only truly began during COVID, when she realised growing food is both wildly satisfying and slightly addictive. Inspired by the Sydney Edible Garden Trail, she’s transformed her small suburban backyard in the Hills District into a thriving edible oasis. As a member of a local permaculture club and with a Diploma in Sustainable Living, she’s passionate about creating green spaces that are both beautiful and bountiful
Leah Hanchard
Committee Member
Leah is a dedicated permaculture gardener who’s spent 20 years transforming her suburban backyard into an edible haven. With chooks, a dog, and a cat always underfoot, weekends in the garden are lively and full of learning. A music educator and busy mum, she also brings valuable experience in event coordination and community organising to the trail.
Anita Prabhu
Committee Member
A lifelong gardener and retired management consultant, Anita shares her love of growing flowers, fruits, and vegetables with her community. A confessed foodie and avid traveller, she combines her artistic flair with her deep concern for food security, sustainability, and environmental balance. Through her gardening, she nurtures not just plants but the hope of a more connected and resilient future.
Co-Founders
Bridget Kennedy
The Instigator and Co-founder
Bridget is a contemporary artist , member of Repair Cafe Sydney North and cofounder of The Sydney Library of Things. She's passionate about permaculture and creativity and their role in creating connected and sustainable communities. She's been working on her edible garden for the last couple of decades. It continues to evolve, with an aquaponics system, wicking beds, chooks, a shared verge garden and more.
Nita Lo
Co-founder and PUBLIC OFFICER
Nita used to describe herself as a plant killer and wouldn’t venture beyond succulents. Since completing her introduction to Permaculture course, she feels she is on the right track. Outside of edible gardening, you can find her running around at the Repair Cafe, learning more about permaculture, lifting weights and hanging out with her sausage dog Murphy.
Margaret Mossakowska
Co-founder
Margaret is a Sustainability Educator who shares her sustainable living skills and knowledge running Moss House workshops, designed to teach others to live in a more environmentally friendly way. This led to her involvement with the Permaculture and food bartering communities. Margaret also opens her extensive productive garden to the public.
