When Graham decided to step back and resign as president, we lost the use of his trailer. We had used his trailer for picking up things for the garden, and especially bottles and cans to clean and exchange for much-needed cash from Containers for Change. Recently we were donated 50 trees from Landcare, and we […]
We managed to hitch a new trailer Read More »
Early on Saturday 12 September 2020 at 7.30am, the Gympie Mayor dropped into the gardens for a sticky beak. We did a short tour and discussed our plans for the gardens. He and his wife even sat in on our meeting and asked questions and made very useful suggestions. Thank you for visiting us Mayor
When Mayor Glen Hartwig paid us a visit Read More »
No we are not using Round Up! As you will see in our objectives, our garden is based on permaculture principles. We are featured in the council’s December 2019 RoundUp magazine! Please have a read of all the benefits a community garden can bring to a place like Gympie… as far as we can tell
A very kind lady, called Kim, offered us a whole stack of horse poo. Yum, yum. So here the good people are collecting the poo from her place to spread across the block. We really don’t know much of the history of 37 Tozer Park Road, apart from these images Gympie Regional Council gave us
Improving soil and water Read More »
We had been waiting a while. And waiting another while. And just another. But then in August 2019, we had a licence agreement from Gympie Regional Council in our grubby hands. The community now had an empty block where we could create an abundant community garden for everyone to share, learn and eat in. The
It all started with a few signatures Read More »
