I’m so pleased to share this report on the Wilderhoods initiative, the culmination of two years work at the Castlemaine Institute with my colleague and friend Ada Nano.
Wilderhoods is an urban greening initiative that empowers neighbours to work together to create thriving neighbourhoods for people and wildlife in a changing climate. Wilderhoods mobilises residents to simultaneously improve climate resilience, biodiversity conservation and human wellbeing in their neighbourhoods by creating networks of urban habitat across existing public and private greenspaces.
Wilderhoods was initiated in 2021 and has since received funding from the Adapt Loddon Mallee program (2022) and WWF Innovate to Regenerate Challenge (2023) to develop our Process for neighbourhood engagement in habitat creation and to test our co-design approach in two pilot workshop series, run in the West End and the South Side neighbourhoods of Castlemaine. Both the West End and South Side Wilderhooders continue to meet regularly to create habitat in their neighbourhoods.
You can read more about Wilderhoods in our report below….
Emerging landscapes 