Our network — our future
THAT’S THE THEME FOR THIS YEAR’S annual meeting of the Australian City Farms & Community Gardens Network (ACFCGN) in Adelaide, South Australia.
The Network
....is an informal, community-based organisation linking people interested in community gardening around Australia.
Ideas to reality
Think > discuss > share > make… join our Facebook and Twitter conversation to make ideas reality.
Organise!
Numbers count. Find out how to list your garden and make community gardening credible and influential.
Food 4 Thought — find out what happened in Hobart, March 2014
Click here!Meet our 2014/15 elected team
Latest news
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Fair Food Week — an edible opportunity for community gardeners
Community gardening is a creative, edible activity that puts urban land to good, productive use. So, why not tell people about it during Fair Food Week 2015 — 16-25 October 2015...
Latest stories from our blog
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The Network: community gardens as makerspaces
Community gardeners — they're a community of practice long a part of the fair food movement in Australia… -
Yes or no? Responding to requests for interviews
WHEN do requests for student interviews go from enough to too much? -
Neglected gardens leave a bad impression
What had most likely been a raised patch of veges has become a neglected installation that offers a poor impression of community gardening -
Growing organically in Randwick’s sandy east
A course for those who prefer to grow a little of what they eat... -
Cities feeding themselves
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Vegetable and fish — all in together
AQUAPONICS — it's way to grow vegetables and fish together, without soil here at the Randwick Organic Community Garden ...
Media releases
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Creating sustainable change
Help republish this useful book... the Tropical Permaculture Guidebook... Our project grows with your support... -
GST on fresh food would set back health, farmers’ markets
A GST tax on fresh fruit and vegetables would merely worsen Australia's chronic obesity epidemic and increase the cost of keeping people healthy, said Jane Mowbray, vice-president of the ACFCGN. -
COGS disappointed by government cancellation of Community Food Grants Program
Canberra Organic Growers Society Inc. (COGS) Media release — 27 February, 2014 The Federal Government ‘s recent...
ACFCGN media
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ACFCGN’s booklets
BEING PREPARED for community gardening is always a good idea and the publications here are designed to... -
Darwin Garden Education Network factsheets
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ACFCGN’s fact sheets
Here's some ideas for returning food production to the city in community gardens. The fact sheets...
Latest gardener and council documents
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How to host a Sydney Regional Community Garden MeetUp
Our MeetUPs are an informal social gathering where gardeners have a chance to share the highlights of what has been going on in their garden and look for ideas to help with those things that are not going as well as they would like. -
Local government: linking community garden to urban food policy
IT WAS something that puzzled me after I started work at the City — how could we create a good food future in the City of Sydney? -
A matrix for assessing community garden applications
Story by Russ Grayson, April 2014 HERE’S a simple spreadsheet I made use of in assessing...
Eco-topia '12 — videos
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LATEST EVENTS
International Permaculture Day at the Hub 3 May 2015 Randwick 
Sydney Regional Community Garden MeetUP 10 May 2015 Rose Bay
ACFCGN POSTER
Artist Lucy Everitt produced the wonderful original watercolour painting for the Network.
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LOCAL GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS
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DOCUMENTS FOR GARDENERS
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GARDEN FACT SHEETS
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