University of Melbourne
Katherine has a keen interest in how communities interact with the natural world and how we can use plants to create greener, more liveable cities. As a PhD candidate with the Green Infrastructure Research Group at the University of Melbourne, Katherine is seeking to devise new and affordable ways to create native wildflower meadows on hostile urban soils using direct-seeding.
Katherine has brought together insights from urban horticulture, seed ecology and grassland restoration to help deliver more than half a hectare of wildflower meadows in the City of Melbourne and is looking forward to developing this work further with other partner organistions, to deliver biodiversity and sustainability outcomes in south-east Australia's cities and towns.
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