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 …
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, …
December 5 is International Volunteer Day. What better day to go to Peregian to attend the Healthy Towns awards and find out that our garden was a finalist. If that wasn’t good enough a later announcement was that we were a joint winner with Palmwoods Community Garden. We won the award, which also has a …
What a productive time we had at Bunnings! Willing, friendly helpers every two hours…. Onion chopping in the car…. No complaints about price rise…. Several donations…. Conversations that led to learning…. And a fantastic $1,200 profit…. MANY THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO GAVE THEIR TIME FOR THE COMMUNITY GARDEN!
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This morning our lovely team got together to raise money for the gardens by recycling bottles. Then we cleaned up the garden and got working on other odd jobs. One of the jobs was to clear rocks so we can easily mow, and create a swale to slow the water coming into our shed. Check …
Wicked (pronounced “wikt”) garden beds are an increasingly popular way of growing vegetables and herbs. They are self-contained raised beds with built-in water reservoirs that supply water to plants from the bottom up. This changes how, and how much, you need to water. Because they are self-watering (apart from a tiny input from you), they …
Saturday 28 May – 8.30am to 12pm – Wicked garden bed workshop Read More »
The gardens are located on a block that is in a one in a hundred year flood zone. And Gympie had its worst rain bomb event for almost 130 years. We have always been a little concerned about what flooding might look like on our block. Well, thanks to Gerard who went down and had …
What happened in the major February/March 2022 rain event Read More »
