The Gympie Community Garden is excited to announce our inaugural Winter Series of talks. They’re set to stimulate conversation and initiative about managing landscapes that play a role in harnessing water and nutrient cycles, creating healthy habitats, encouraging local food production, and above all, be pleasant and inspiring places to be a part of. First […]
Winter Series – Talks with Stuart and Hamish Andrews Read More »
So that we can keep the garden in tip-top condition we now meet each Saturday morning at around 8am. Some Saturdays we will be recycling bottles and cans, other days we will be planting seeds, picking produce, tidying beds… We still meet on the second Saturday of each month for our monthly meeting – which
We are now getting together every Saturday! Read More »
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
The A to Z of Naming Day Read More »
Yesterday the Gympie Volunteer Centre and Cooloola Human Services Network held a morning tea for Gympie volunteers. Mayor Glen Hartwig and MP Tony Perrett were there to thank all the volunteers for their contribution to our region. Did you know at the last census there were around 49,000 residents in Gympie and of these 8,647
It’s National Volunteer Week! Read More »
Permaculture teaches us that we have zones in our gardens – zone one is the nearest to us, zone two a little further and so on until we get to zone five which is a place we don’t visit much at all. We call our zone one at the community garden our ‘heart’ and it
Creating our garden heart Read More »
Mel Marx, (middle, standing) is an innovator, farmer, permaculture designer and passionate fan of the sustainable living movement. She agreed to help us out (for free and with total passion) with designing a garden that looks at our new block and its characteristics. People came long and some newbies from FB, which was truly great.
Planning our needs and wants Read More »
