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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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,
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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
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Our garden volunteers are excited to have been accepted into Landcare’s new “Greening Gympie” program, which came about thanks to generous local donors who would like to see spaces greened with trees and plants appropriate to our region. Members and volunteers from the community garden were able to select 50 trees, which will help protect
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Agent W did a heap of work for us. Helping create pathways towards, and on, our plan. The work was neat, accurate and their service was excellent. They also did a fantastic job making a pad for our soon-to-be propagation shed. Home schoolers and preschoolers will be able to use this for exploring all kinds
We would like to thank Ross Creek Tropicals for their very generous donation of fruit trees to our garden. These trees will not only add to the abundance of the garden; they will also enable us to share more produce with our local community. Now all we need to do is get ready for planting!
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Once upon a time there was a part-accidental pumpkin patch at the community gardens. It sprawled and crawled, and sprawled and crawled some more, covering the grass. The pumpkin flowers opened, and excited volunteer gardeners watched the female flowers blossom into small fruit surrounded by wilting petals. The fruit grew and grew, hidden under the
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We are calling out for wheelbarrows and shovels, and people who know how to work them. The next stage for the garden is to set in stone some all-abilities pathways leading to new areas of the garden. This will help ‘pave the way’ for new developments and will open doors to new rooms in our overall
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We are holding a herb spiral workshop at the gardens. Herb spirals are designed to take advantage of a vertical garden structure, as well as variations in water and sunlight. As the centre of the spiral is the tallest part it creates more shade on one side and a sunnier aspect on the other. The
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