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  1. Food swap comes to Newtown NSW

    Posted by media
    / October 3, 2011 / 1 Comment
    Newtown's sustainability education centre, The Watershed, is launching the City of Sydney/inner west's first food swap...
  2. Freeconomy comes to the north at Mullumbimby swap market

    Posted by media
    / May 30, 2011 / Leave a comment
    The freeconomy comes to northern NSW with Mullumbimby's cashless Swap Market...
  3. Landshare

    Posted by ACFCGN
    / March 20, 2011 / Leave a comment
    Matching growers with land… Landshare Australia launched in Randwick Community Organic Garden Posted: Wed, Feb 16, 2011 An national organisation that links people looking for land to grow vegetables with people who have land to spare was launched in Sydney this week. A rainy morning hadn’t looked all that auspicious in...
  4. Where big food fails in the floods, Food Connect connects

    Posted by media
    / March 6, 2011 / Leave a comment
    As Big Food bogged in the mud of Brisbane's floods, nimble Food Connect got the goods through. Here's a lesson about resilient food systems and the value of locally sourced food in a crisis...
  5. New Produce Swap for Adelaide

    Posted by claire
    / October 25, 2010 / Leave a comment
    Walyo Yerta Community Garden in Adelaide’s inner-city parklands has launched yet another ‘Urban Orchard’, a project to enable people swap and share homegrown and gleaned produce. “If you’ve planted a dozen seeds and they’ve all come up and you don’t have room to plant them,  bring them along to the...
  6. Find a food swap

    Posted by media
    / September 6, 2010 / 3 Comments
    At food swaps, people exchange the excess food they grow... here's where to find a food swap in your city...
  7. New food swap in northern Sydney

    Posted by media
    / August 19, 2010 / 2 Comments
    A local initiative brings Nothern Sydney its own food swap...
  8. Rhubarb – the Winter Feast

    Posted by media
    / July 18, 2010 / Leave a comment
    Join us for our Rhubarb Food Co-op Winter Feast...
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Ben Neil a Victorian community garden enquiry

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John McBain a WA community garden enquiry
Website: www.communitygardenswa.org.au

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Walter Steensby an ACT garden enquiry

NORTHERN TERRITORY, send:
Emily Gray a NT community garden enquiry

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    Sunday 7 April 2013 Drop in anytime from 1:30—5PM

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  3. 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.
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Australian City Farms & Community Gardens Network

An informal, community-based organisation linking people interested in community gardening from around Australia. Within our limits of our capacity, the network:

  • advocates on behalf of community gardeners

  • provides information on our website

  • provides presentations and advice to local government, other institutions and communities interested in establishing community gardens.

  • documents the development of community gardening in Australia

  • provides a list of contacts through which the public may contact community gardens.

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