The Naming Day event was a great success and thank you to everyone who volunteered and all the community members who came to the gardens for a sticky beak. Here is a quick alphabetical run down of the day… A is for… artist. There were a lot of children being very creative at the colouring-in …
Gympie…Community…Garden – yes this is what it is. And this is our function, mission, project and meaning. But we need a special name for our garden, because it is our special space. So we are racking our brains and thinking – what meaningful name can we give our garden? A name that resonates in the …
Today we made the mud bricks and constructed the pizza oven. First the clay mix was watered, and mixed to a plasticine consistency, in barrows. The base had been prepared yesterday, by some dedicated volunteers… Then came the fun part, mixing the clay with straw – do you wear boots or go barefoot? Then the …
When Gympie Community Garden was located at Cooinda Aged Care, members held a workshop to build a pizza oven. It pumped out huge numbers of pizzas that someone called ‘the best pizzas ever’. There was a lot of pizza sharing going on. The community garden had to leave Cooinda and find another home. The oven …
For a long, long time the community garden had no toilet. This meant people had to leave working bees or workshops or just duck out for a while to drive to the nearest toilet. We successfully applied for funding through the Gambling Fund and went through a lot – well mountains – of paperwork and …
What a productive time we had at Bunnings! Willing, friendly helpers every two hours…. Onion chopping in the car…. No complaints about price rise…. Several donations…. Conversations that led to learning…. And a fantastic $1,200 profit…. MANY THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO GAVE THEIR TIME FOR THE COMMUNITY GARDEN!
