We meet the second Saturday of the month at 8am (except in January)
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The A to Z of Naming Day
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
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It’s National Volunteer Week!
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
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Creating our garden heart
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
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Planning our needs and wants
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.
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