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 have been planning a syntropic garden for a while, thanks to Lani and all her help with our revised garden design. So what is a syntropic garden? Syntropic farming is many layered and was first put to the test in barren land in Brazil. It starts with trees. It imitates market gardening as well
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A couple of years ago, Mel held a series of open workshops where anyone in the community could add to our garden wishlist. We wanted a whole heap of things. Since then we have done quite a bit to the garden. We have added water, a shelter, sheds, and so on. So we decided to
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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 »
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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