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 …
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, …
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 …
A very kind lady, called Kim, offered us a whole stack of horse poo. Yum, yum. So here the good people are collecting the poo from her place to spread across the block. We really don’t know much of the history of 37 Tozer Park Road, apart from these images Gympie Regional Council gave us …
Permaculture teaches us that we have zones in our gardens – zone one is the nearest to us, zone two a little further and so on until we get to zone five which is a place we don’t visit much at all. We call our zone one at the community garden our ‘heart’ and it …
