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What a productive time we had at Bunnings! Willing, friendly helpers every two hours…. Onion…

It was the first real sunny, and cloudless, day for weeks! And quite a few…

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This morning our lovely team got together to raise money for the gardens by recycling…

Wicked (pronounced “wikt”) garden beds are an increasingly popular way of growing vegetables and herbs….

The gardens are located on a block that is in a one in a hundred…

We have our first rainwater tank in place, thanks to the wonderful people who offer…

We have been planning a syntropic garden for a while, thanks to Lani and all…

Every two weeks or so a bunch of Gympie Community Garden members come to the…

A couple of years ago, Mel held a series of open workshops where anyone in…

The worm farm workshop we had on Saturday 28 August was a great success, especially…

Vermicomposting, or worm farming, is easy once you know how! It takes around half the…

Today, after we had de-capped bottles, we worked on our raised beds, adding mushroom compost,…

These raised garden beds are being made according to the principles of hugulkultur. Hugul what?…

Our herb gabion wall got its final finishing touches yesterday. We had run out of…

We were successful in our funding application to the Queensland Government’s Gambling Community Benefit Fund….

Yesterday the Gympie Volunteer Centre and Cooloola Human Services Network held a morning tea for…

The turnout for the harvest swap this morning was amazing. People brought along plants, tree…

On Saturday 8 May at 9am you can bring any excess produce you have, stuff…

About 15 people came to our workshop today, from near and far, keen to know…

Over the past couple of weeks, the trainees at SkillCentred have been getting ready to…

Graham Chapman has been with the community gardens since its beginning. Over the years he…

It was back in March 2020, remember that? Just before COVID… Aaron Carter cleared some…

We are enormously thankful to Josh Kerr for putting together this sign for us. The…

We are taking bookings for our next workshop on Saturday 13 March, at 8.30am. Our…

Two days ago, we posted this wanted poster on FB, for people with whipper snippers….

A small group of us got together on Saturday 20 December to do a couple…

Thanks so much to all the people who helped out at Bunnings on Saturday. We…

Image by A_Different_Perspective from Pixabay Our meeting for December has been moved to Saturday 19,…

Moving things from place to place of course! These are the logs that Graham cut…

At our last meeting we decided we would get together early for a working bee,…

Today we got water put onto the site, with potable and non-potable risers. Excited to…

Today’s working bee and meeting were both very productive. We had loads of new and…

The workshop last Saturday saw a great bunch of people planting two of potentially seven…

Early on Saturday 12 September 2020 at 7.30am, the Gympie Mayor dropped into the gardens…

Community garden banana circle Morag Gamble is a world-renowned permaculture educator, speaker, author, blogger, film…

Yesterday was a big day for us, mainly thanks to Gympie Regional Council. The sign…

The composting workshop we held today – the first after Covie – was a real…

So you have done some basic soil tests and now want to improve your soil….

Come and learn how to design your own native food forest creating a thriving eco-system…