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 …
The Naming Day event was a great success and thank you to everyone who volunteered and all the community members who came to the gardens for a sticky beak. Here is a quick alphabetical run down of the day… A is for… artist. There were a lot of children being very creative at the colouring-in …
Gympie…Community…Garden – yes this is what it is. And this is our function, mission, project and meaning. But we need a special name for our garden, because it is our special space. So we are racking our brains and thinking – what meaningful name can we give our garden? A name that resonates in the …
Today we made the mud bricks and constructed the pizza oven. First the clay mix was watered, and mixed to a plasticine consistency, in barrows. The base had been prepared yesterday, by some dedicated volunteers… Then came the fun part, mixing the clay with straw – do you wear boots or go barefoot? Then the …
When Gympie Community Garden was located at Cooinda Aged Care, members held a workshop to build a pizza oven. It pumped out huge numbers of pizzas that someone called ‘the best pizzas ever’. There was a lot of pizza sharing going on. The community garden had to leave Cooinda and find another home. The oven …
For a long, long time the community garden had no toilet. This meant people had to leave working bees or workshops or just duck out for a while to drive to the nearest toilet. We successfully applied for funding through the Gambling Fund and went through a lot – well mountains – of paperwork and …
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!
