About

Kat Lavers is a small space food production specialist, gardening educator and permaculture designer. 

Her work reconnects people with the land, and possibilities, beneath their feet, helping transform postage stamp courtyards into pockets of abundance.

Kat’s urban system The Plummery is a tiny 1/14th acre (280m2) suburban block that pumps out almost all the household’s veggies, herbs, fruit and quail eggs – reaching 450kg of produce in 2020!

When she’s not dreaming up home food systems or community gardens, you’ll find Kat delivering urban agriculture projects with local councils (including the multi-award-winning My Smart Garden education program) or watching her Japanese quails do delightful quail things.

Kat has 20 years’ experience teaching alongside international permaculture legends like Rosemary Morrow, David Jacke and David Holmgren, and has worked with everyone from refugees in Malaysia to nomadic herders in Mongolia.

You may have spotted Kat in RetroSuburbia, Gardening Australia, Happen Films, ABC Radio National Big Ideas, ABC Radio Melbourne, Sustain: The Australian Food Network, 3CR Radio, RRR Radio, Gardening Australia magazine, Renew magazine, Green magazine, Earth Garden magazine,  PIP magazine, The Age/SMH, Gestalten’s ‘Urban Farmers: The Now (and How) of Growing Food in the City’ and ‘Urban Homesteads’ by Rebecca Gross.