In designing community gardens, social design comes first
Community garden planning should be a people-led, not a design-led process.
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Community garden management plans
This Management Plan template is about the governance of your community garden.... It's about social design rather than site design although it does cover management of the site in general. -
Alienation of land: objections increase
Community gardens seem such a compellingly good idea to many of us. This, unfortunately, is a sentiment not shared by all... -
New book helps to start, nurture community gardens
Those South Australians are an innovative and busy lot. Now they've launched a book on starting and nurturing community gardens... -
Safety in the garden
A guide to safety in the community garden... keeping gardening safe for all... -
Permaculture design’s role in community gardening
This is an opinion piece about the role of the permaculture design system in community gardening... -
Basic infrastructure for successful community gardening
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. -
Getting started checklist
After visiting community gardens, organise a debriefing session to collate, from this checklist, what you like, what you don't want and what needs further investigation for inclusion in your new community garden.
NOT ON OUR MAP?
Come and list your garden in our...
2012 Community Garden Survey and be part of our new Australian community gardens map.
Sample of the map that will be coming soon...
Do you have an enquiry about our garden survey or new mapping system?
Send John Brisbin your enquiry.
RECENT POSTS
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SA Gathering—Sunday 7 April 2013
SA COMMUNITY GARDENING GATHERING AT LINDE COMMUNITY GARDENSunday 7 April 2013 Drop in anytime from 1:30—5PM
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Learning in the Garden National Seminar 2013
Growing Communities is excited to announce the second Learning in the Garden National Seminar (LITGNS), to be held in Brisbane’s sunny winter, on 3 and 4 June this year. -
East Freo Farm documents
A business plan, incorporation rules, their proposal documents and a powerpoint presentation all available to download...