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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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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We have workshops planned each month for the rest of 2020, as long as restrictions permit. Out next one will be how to make valuable compost to improve your soil. Have you ever suffered from maggots in your compost? A sour smell in your bin? Or not knowing what to put in and leave out?
Making compost to improve your soil Read More »
After our last meeting we did four more soil tests around the site. The soil depth is not that good. But we looked at all these things (thanks Alan Coates!): How much ground cover is there? What colour are the leaves on the surface? How many types of soil animals are there in a clod?
Testing for soil health so we can work on improvements Read More »
Well, we do now! In our workshop this morning we learned about: Soil health: its physical texture and structure, its biology and nutrition needs. And look how we all were at the end of it… A group of happy smiling people with a whole bunch of new knowledge. Thank you Alan for sharing your seemingly
Did you know soil is reactive and has positive and negative charges? Read More »
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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