A Delicious Bunch

Linda Brennan is a horticulturist, environmental educator, and passionate greenthumb goddess. She is a prominent horticultural figure devoted to health and vitality through nurturing life, people, and the environment. Linda is an inspiration for adults and children who want to grow bountiful gardens, edible flowers, and organic food in abundance.

Her childhood was spent wandering the bush with her parents, picking wild foods, harvesting honey, and growing a huge variety of vegetables and fruit in the family garden in Gippsland, Victoria. Her first garden, by the age of five, was full of her favourite foods: broad beans, peas, radish, asparagus, sweet corn, and dianthus flowers. Her outdoor childhood helped sow the seeds of a love of nature and the potential for productive gardens.

As an adult, she naturally progressed from a career in midwifery into the equally nurturing field of horticulture, especially organic food, permaculture, and education. In between, she also ran her own catering business, making gourmet meals for health-seeking executives and staff. She went on to teach TAFE horticulture and at several Queensland Universities in undergraduate and postgraduate degrees around environment and sustainability.

Linda has facilitated workshops for adults and children for over two decades. You’ll find her giving demonstrations, talks, and workshops at her own garden at Ecobotanica, at libraries, eco-festivals, and food events such as Regional Flavours. She enthusiastically promotes the enjoyment of home-grown organic food and inspires families to grow their next meal.

In her spare time, Linda sinks her hands into the soil in her own beautiful organic acreage garden where hundreds of edible, medicinal, and useful plants thrive. Edible flowers feature under the orchard trees, through the vegetable patch, and are dotted through the beautiful herb and cottage gardens, surrounding the labyrinth. Her many hives of stingless native bees and European honey bees pollinate fruit trees and vegetables, yielding abundant crops.

Most of the family meals originate in the garden and are picked fresh from just metres away. Friends, family, and neighbours benefit from the greenthumb in their midst.