The Gympie Community Garden continues its Winter Series this month with Uncle Eugene Bargo presenting on Saturday 30th August. A proud Gurang Gurang Kabi Kabi man, Eugene took a degraded cow paddock at Black Snake near Kilkivan and started planting trees 44 years ago. Today the property is teeming with life and supports a thriving […]
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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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It was the first real sunny, and cloudless, day for weeks! And quite a few keen (and strong!) people turned up for our wicked bed workshop yesterday. Many were interested in the small wicked beds, but everyone mucked in and helped create the large wicked bed. The bed itself had been in storage from when
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About 15 people came to our workshop today, from near and far, keen to know how to put together a gabion wall. Graham explained the prep that had already been done. Everyone had their own pretty exciting ideas about how they might use the gabion wall construction. The first layer of mesh went over the
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We are taking bookings for our next workshop on Saturday 13 March, at 8.30am. Our plan is to work on constructing a gabion wall, which will be the home to a variety of herbs and plants. To book click here ‘Gabion’ means ‘cage’ in Italian, as the wall is constructed of connecting cages that are
We are holding a gabion herb wall workshop! Read More »
Ever wondered how you can develop a self-watering system for your vegetable garden that is water and time efficient? Well, a wicking bed is the answer for you. Invented by an Australian named Colin Austin, the idea is that you capture water in the bottom of the bed with a waterproof liner or layer. This
Saturday, 10 October 2020 @ 8:30 am – 1 pm – Building A Wicking Bed Read More »
