Join us for the final Community Garden Winter Series event of the season: So You Want toEat Local, a lively panel discussion on local food production in Gympie.Our panellists include Zela Bissett, artist and gardening columnist for Gympie Living; localpermaculture legend Serge Leroyer; and Dr Shane Simonsen, a biologist, plant breeder andlocal farmer. The discussion […]
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The Gympie Community Garden continues its Winter Series this month with Uncle Eugene Bargo presenting on Saturday 30th August. A proud Gurang Gurang Kabi Kabi man, Eugene took a degraded cow paddock at Black Snake near Kilkivan and started planting trees 44 years ago. Today the property is teeming with life and supports a thriving
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The Gympie Community Garden is excited to announce our inaugural Winter Series of talks. They’re set to stimulate conversation and initiative about managing landscapes that play a role in harnessing water and nutrient cycles, creating healthy habitats, encouraging local food production, and above all, be pleasant and inspiring places to be a part of. First
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Saturday, 12th July, 11am at the Community Garden, Phil will show you how to prune, and look after, your grape vines. Doing this correctly will maximise fruit production and vine health. The process involves removing excess growth to encourage new shoots that will bear fruit. Tickets for the workshop are $20 and you will be
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Join us on the autumn equinox for an open day and tour of Dragonfly Gardens Phil Stringer’s urban farm in Gympie. This will be on Saturday 22 March at 9am and will run for about two hours. Phil’s farm farm incorporates modern market garden practices with syntropics, regenerative agriculture and integrated permaculture systems to grow
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So that we can keep the garden in tip-top condition we now meet each Saturday morning at around 8am. Some Saturdays we will be recycling bottles and cans, other days we will be planting seeds, picking produce, tidying beds… We still meet on the second Saturday of each month for our monthly meeting – which
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