People are welcome to come along to our soil health workshop on Saturday 8 February at 8.30am! Alan Coates will be running the hands-on event. Alan has been a TAFE agriculture and horticulture teacher for more than 30 years. He has taught biological farming, integrated pest management, production horticulture, subtropical fruit growing and, of course, […]
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No we are not using Round Up! As you will see in our objectives, our garden is based on permaculture principles. We are featured in the council’s December 2019 RoundUp magazine! Please have a read of all the benefits a community garden can bring to a place like Gympie… as far as we can tell
At our working bee today, we marked out the areas where we will be putting our pizza oven/seating/meeting area with a skillion roof. All under the watchful eye of a Gympie Times reporter and photographer. The structure has been waiting to come out of storage and see daylight for a couple of years! We also
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First big thank you for the day goes to Luke, Graham’s son, for setting up this website. He gave freely of his time and expertise to set this up. One kind-hearted genius! Second, big thanks to everyone who helped at the Bunnings sausage sizzle today. Biggest round of applause goes to Graham for organising everything
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December 5 is International Volunteer Day. What better day to go to Peregian to attend the Healthy Towns awards and find out that our garden was a finalist. If that wasn’t good enough a later announcement was that we were a joint winner with Palmwoods Community Garden. We won the award, which also has a
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On 21 September we were invited to have a spot at the Gympie District Landcare Annual Festival. We jumped at the chance and gave away seedlings or seeds in disposable/compostable coffee cups (moringa seemed the most popular)! A lot of people came up to us and chatted. They asked about where we were, what we
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