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Permaculture design’s role in community gardening
This is an opinion piece about the role of the permaculture design system in community gardening...
Continue reading...Basic infrastructure for successful community gardening
5. October 2009
THERE IS A COMMON SET OF DESIGN ELEMENTS that make the experience of community gardening an enjoyable one. It is a set that has become defined through more than 30 years of community gardening in Australia and that can be considered as the basic infrastructure to include in community garden design and construction. As such, it is something to take into consideration in the planning of new community gardens.
Continue reading...Crisis response — community gardeners a cadre to scale-up urban food production
4. October 2009
Community gardeners could form a cadre of experienced trainers to scale-up food production in the cities in the event of any prolonged food shortage...
Continue reading...Community gardening — the benefits
11. October 2007
A brief summary of the main benefits of community gardening. If you have more, please add them in the 'comments'....
Continue reading...Education an established role for community gardens
12. October 2005
Community gardens are also education centres and have been since their early days. This story looks at a few of the gardens used for training...
Continue reading...- Local Government and other documents
- Basic infrastructure for successful community gardening
- Network fact sheets
- Glovers, Sydney's heritage garden - a photo essay
- Permaculture design's role in community gardening
- Ready to garden the community way at Lawson
- Chester Hill meeting for Sydney Network
- Gillies Plains Community Garden
- Community Garden Guidebook Launch and SA Community Garden Network Gathering, 14th February
- ACFCGN annual general meeting Saturday 14 November 2009
- John: Thankyou Russ We permaculturists can sometimes ...
- Marcelle Coakley: We have a community garden in Onslow that we would...
- Chris Dillon: Hi There, Our organisation is trying to get inv...
- claire: Hi Meg, Thanks for your interest in Growing Com...
- Elabeth Fekonia: Hi there, I'm an accredited Permaculture teacher ...
- Good food good future
- Brisbane workshop — growing and cooking tropical vegetables
- Directory of WA community gardens
- New book helps to start, nurture community gardens
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Information for local government
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Community gardeners adopt policies and guidelines to make gardening an enjoyable experience and to manage their garden sites effectively.
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Community garden fact sheets
aThese 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.
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They cover:
- composting
- no-dig gardening
- integrated pest management,
- crop rotation
- and more.…continue reading
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8. January 2010
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