Every two weeks or so a bunch of Gympie Community Garden members come to the garden for a short time to clean and de-cap bottles for recycling. This is an extremely valuable fundraiser for our community garden; it helps pay for our garden to come to fruition. The beautiful people who come are incredibly generous […]
Yesterday the Gympie Volunteer Centre and Cooloola Human Services Network held a morning tea for Gympie volunteers. Mayor Glen Hartwig and MP Tony Perrett were there to thank all the volunteers for their contribution to our region. Did you know at the last census there were around 49,000 residents in Gympie and of these 8,647
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Graham Chapman has been with the community gardens since its beginning. Over the years he has done just about everything you could do in a garden and more. He has dug, raked, built, watered, hosed, mowed, shared produce, wheelbarrowed, hoed, planted, weeded, advised, mulched, fertilised, harvested, pruned, shovelled, picked and more. Over the past few
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Our meeting for December has been moved to Saturday 19, December at 8.30am (we will have a short working bee beforehand when it is cooler). We had to change the date, because we were offered a valuable sausage sizzle at Bunnings on 12 December. Many thanks to those who have offered to help with the
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
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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