Botanical Bazaar Festival Walk Talk at Ediblescapes 2025

Botanical Bazaar Festival Walk Talk at Ediblescapes 2025 was a special moment of shared learning, storytelling and community exchange within the wider Botanical Bazaar festival.

As part of the event, Ediblescapes was proud to share the knowledge and presence of Kyle Grimshaw-Jones and John Palmer, both active Ediblescapes participants and members of the association.

Their walk-and-talk helped create a generous atmosphere of learning, reflection, and practical exchange. Kyle Grimshaw-Jones brings a long-standing professional practice in naturopathy and natural healing, alongside a deep interest in plant ecology, medicinal herbs, edible wild plants and practical food knowledge. John Palmer, widely known on the Gold Coast as “The Earthman,” brings long-standing regional recognition as an environmental educator and eco-tour guide, with his contribution to environmental awareness also formally recognised through the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM). Together, they helped visitors engage more deeply with the garden as a place of ecological relationship, useful plant knowledge and shared learning. 

Together, they shared stories, observations and experiences that helped visitors engage more deeply with the living processes of the garden and the wider possibilities of community edible forest gardening.

One of the most unique and beautiful moments of the event, however, came from within the Ediblescapes family itself.

During the day, Ediblescapes children stepped forward into leadership, guiding aspects of gardening, harvesting and cooking demonstrations with the support of their parents and Ediblescapes gardeners.

This intergenerational participation gave the event a very special quality. It showed Ediblescapes not only as a place where knowledge is taught, but as a living space where learning, confidence, care and cultural practice can be carried and shared across generations.

The event reflected many of the values that shape Ediblescapes:

• shared learning through direct experience
• food growing in relationship with nature
• community knowledge exchange
• practical observation and participation
• children and families actively involved in garden life
• the garden as a place of intergenerational cultural learning

Botanical Bazaar 2025 became another important chapter in the public story of Ediblescapes — a reminder that community gardens are not only places of production, but also places of relationship, confidence, memory, teaching and joyful collective life.

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