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 […]
Marking out some infrastructure Read More »
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
We won the 2019 Healthy Towns Award! Read More »
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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We had been waiting a while. And waiting another while. And just another. But then in August 2019, we had a licence agreement from Gympie Regional Council in our grubby hands. The community now had an empty block where we could create an abundant community garden for everyone to share, learn and eat in. The
It all started with a few signatures Read More »
When we signed our agreement we were not entirely sure what we had. We know it is flood prone, but we needed to really walk around and see the lay of the land. We sent an invite out on FB! People who came to the planning walked around and discussed the best and worst parts
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