Cultivating moves from home gardens to forms of ecological stewardship that grow collective actions, like creative organisations engaged in civic ecologies or plots in a local community garden. In this second chapter, we analyse socio-ecological practices that extend the examples of neighbourhood ecologies into spaces beyond private property lines. This chapter thus moves from home gardens to public spaces, focusing on collective practices that champion neighbourhood ecologies in three locations in inner Sydney. We meet gardeners who are as interested in cultivating a community as they are in growing plants. We stop by a seed library and visit the productive backyard of Frontyard in Marrickville, a local ‘Not-Only-Artist Run Initiative’ where people can imagine and take steps to create possible futures and where we started this project as resident researchers in 2017. These are just some examples of neighbourhood ecologies based on community initiatives we have documented and analysed in our research. Recent literature on urban greening confirms the variety of modes of civic engagement with local ecologies, mirrored by the multiplicity of academic positions on these initiatives’ social and political value. The spectrum is broad. On the one hand, there are claims that forms of community greening, especially when involving edible plants, are a right to the city, urban activism, social action in urban spaces that escape capitalist modes of being in a city, or a form of D.I.Y citizenship. On the other, researchers ask if socio-ecological stewardship initiatives have been coopted by neoliberal urbanisation. Our fieldwork in Sydney neighbourhoods, where several local councils have developed urban greening policies in response to residents’ practices and needs, shows that all these positions coexist on the ground. The chapter is based on creative ethnographies, including group walks, extended interviews, and the creation of maps to orient participants and make legible neighbourhood ecologies. This chapter advances the book’s argument, revealing how creative spaces shape neighbourhood ecologies by making connections between collective and individual action.