Permaculture

Dragonfly Gardens Urban Farm Open Day, Saturday March 22

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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Our rough plans

In December 2018 we came up with a list of needs and wants in a series of early morning discussions. Mel Marx very kindly helped us with this draft plan. We will be revisiting this once we can get together and have a meeting of minds. You will see that we have included elements such

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Soil health workshop numbers are limited!

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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Round Up?

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

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