ACFCGNetwork submission to City of Sydney policy on community gardens — January 2010

• COMMUNITY GARDEN NETWORK
  email discussion group...
  To join, email Fiona at: info[at]communitygarden.org.au
• SCHOOL GARDENS
  for education email discussion group...
  To subscribe, go to:

  the school garden email
  discussion list website

  ...and follow the directions.
  It’s pretty straight forward from there.

• These Australian City Farms & Community Gardens Network fact sheets are designed to improve community gardening practice and are useful for educators to distribute at courses and workshops.
• They cover:
  - composting and no-dig gardening
  - integrated pest management
  - crop rotation
  - and more.

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• Local government is adopting policies and guidelines to set in place systems to enable community gardening. They are also exploring other food related planting systems with their communities.
• We include information about:
  - policy documents
  - plans of management
  - verge planting information
  - and other related information.

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