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Innovative policy on community gardening adopted by City of Sydney
The City of Sydney has adopted a policy on community gardening that enlarges the City's interest in community food systems...
Continue reading...Request: advice wanted on security issues
18. January 2010
A rural Victorian community garden asks for your advice on a security issue...
Continue reading...SA community garden worker visits Sydney
8. January 2010
Community garden network members meeting up in different cities turns an online network into a personal one. So it was when Alan Shephard visited Sydney...
Continue reading...Seed saving maven on You Tube
1. January 2010
Carriageworks have been doing a series of kitchen garden workshops and have got some great videos of their workshops on You Tube. Annie Walker reports...
Continue reading...Website lists community gardens on remote Aboriginal communities
1. January 2010
A website details community food gardens on remote Aboriginal communities. claire nettle, SA ACFCGN co-ordinator reports...
Continue reading...Meeting at Carrs Park Community Garden for Sydney and national networks
21. November 2009
CARRS PARK COMMUNITY GARDEN was still a construction site, however it proved a successful venue for the 2009 Australian City Farms & Community Gardens Network’s (ACFCGN) 2009 meet-up and annual general meeting, an event combined with the quarterly Sydney Community Garden Network (SCGN) gathering. While those attending the ACFCGN meeting discussed topics such as communications, the [...]
Continue reading...Choice reports positively on community gardening
5. October 2009
Choice magazine has reported positively on community gardening in its September 2009 edition.
Continue reading...Ten ways council can help support community gardens
4. July 2009
The Urban Sustainability Support Alliance (USSA) of the Local Government Association of NSW and Shires Association of NSW published an item for local government about community gardening in July 2009.
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
- Directory of WA community gardens
- Community Garden Guidebook Launch and SA Community Garden Network Gathering, 14th February
- Fuchsia: Hi Marcel, Great to hear things are progressin...
- Jason John: Hi Claire & Tim, Great job, and great timing ...
- 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...
- 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
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11. March 2010
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