Katrina’s beneficial insect food garden

As a passionate Preston home gardener, Katrina Forstner has created a native bee friendly garden full of fruit trees, vegetables, perennial and native flowers and chickens. Find out more about attracting beneficial insects and how this productive garden thrives with homemade compost with locally sourced green waste, pest control and fertiliser courtesy of the resident chickens. Over fifteen fruit trees, grapes, berries, and pollinator attracting flowers along with several bee hotels dotted around the garden, have created a native bee haven. This garden is part of ongoing research undertaken by Melbourne University VEIL Urban Food project which measures the input and outputs of a home garden in the context of a sustainable city food system.