A close eye on the garden
We have some wonderful neighbours, who help us out in many ways. Some very kindly…
Greening Gympie one tree and one step at a time – update
Our garden volunteers are excited to have been accepted into Landcare’s new “Greening Gympie” program,…
Digging it – update
Agent W did a heap of work for us. Helping create pathways towards, and on,…
Generous members of our community
We would like to thank Ross Creek Tropicals for their very generous donation of fruit…
When magic happens at the gardens
Once upon a time there was a part-accidental pumpkin patch at the community gardens. It…
Leading you up the garden path
We are calling out for wheelbarrows and shovels, and people who know how to work…
Herb spiral workshop – Saturday 16 March
We are holding a herb spiral workshop at the gardens. Herb spirals are designed to…
The A to Z of Naming Day
The Naming Day event was a great success and thank you to everyone who volunteered…
Naming Day – Sunday 17 September 2-5pm
Gympie…Community…Garden – yes this is what it is. And this is our function, mission, project…
Not long till we share mouth-watering pizzas – update!
Today we made the mud bricks and constructed the pizza oven. First the clay mix…
Pizza oven workshop – Saturday 19 August
When Gympie Community Garden was located at Cooinda Aged Care, members held a workshop to…
It wasn’t funny without a dunny
For a long, long time the community garden had no toilet. This meant people had…
The Bunnings crew!
What a productive time we had at Bunnings! Willing, friendly helpers every two hours…. Onion…
Wicked bed workshop a success!
It was the first real sunny, and cloudless, day for weeks! And quite a few…
Read all about wicked beds in the latest issue of Gympie Living
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Busy bees at working bees
This morning our lovely team got together to raise money for the gardens by recycling…
Saturday 28 May – 8.30am to 12pm – Wicked garden bed workshop
Wicked (pronounced “wikt”) garden beds are an increasingly popular way of growing vegetables and herbs….
What happened in the major February/March 2022 rain event
The gardens are located on a block that is in a one in a hundred…
Water, rain, watering and connecting
We have our first rainwater tank in place, thanks to the wonderful people who offer…
The beginnings of our syntropic garden
We have been planning a syntropic garden for a while, thanks to Lani and all…
Why volunteer?
Every two weeks or so a bunch of Gympie Community Garden members come to the…
Our plans are getting closer and closer to being realised
A couple of years ago, Mel held a series of open workshops where anyone in…
Bill White’s knowledge about worms and worm farms
The worm farm workshop we had on Saturday 28 August was a great success, especially…
Saturday 28 August 9am to 12pm – Learn how to build your own worm farm
Vermicomposting, or worm farming, is easy once you know how! It takes around half the…
Our herbs are there for the picking!
Today, after we had de-capped bottles, we worked on our raised beds, adding mushroom compost,…
Putting in raised beds for planting
These raised garden beds are being made according to the principles of hugulkultur. Hugul what?…
Several pats on the back!
Our herb gabion wall got its final finishing touches yesterday. We had run out of…
We did it!
We were successful in our funding application to the Queensland Government’s Gambling Community Benefit Fund….
It’s National Volunteer Week!
Yesterday the Gympie Volunteer Centre and Cooloola Human Services Network held a morning tea for…
Our first monthly harvest swap
The turnout for the harvest swap this morning was amazing. People brought along plants, tree…
The Gympie Harvest Swap returns in May
On Saturday 8 May at 9am you can bring any excess produce you have, stuff…
The gabion herb wall really came together today
About 15 people came to our workshop today, from near and far, keen to know…
We are cooking with gas right now!
Over the past couple of weeks, the trainees at SkillCentred have been getting ready to…
Our President hero
Graham Chapman has been with the community gardens since its beginning. Over the years he…
Getting back to the beginning again
It was back in March 2020, remember that? Just before COVID… Aaron Carter cleared some…
A sign of the times
We are enormously thankful to Josh Kerr for putting together this sign for us. The…
We are holding a gabion herb wall workshop!
We are taking bookings for our next workshop on Saturday 13 March, at 8.30am. Our…
Ask and ye shall receive
Two days ago, we posted this wanted poster on FB, for people with whipper snippers….
Our last working bee for 2020
A small group of us got together on Saturday 20 December to do a couple…
A weekend dedicated to fundraising
Thanks so much to all the people who helped out at Bunnings on Saturday. We…