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Safety in the garden

9. January 2010

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A guide to safety in the community garden... keeping gardening safe for all...

Permaculture design’s role in community gardening

8. January 2010

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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...

Basic infrastructure for successful community gardening

5. October 2009

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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

19. September 2009

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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.

1. Making a start

15. January 2002

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There are two ways to start a community garden… from the bottom up or the top down. Both approaches work and which one is used depends upon where the proposal for a community garden comes from.

2. Challenges

15. January 2002

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Community garden organisers face a number of challenges such as finding land, convincing the landholder that you will manage the land in a responsible manner...

3. Bottom-up approach

15. January 2002

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Just where you start planning for a community garden depends upon the circumstances you are faced with, such as whether you have found a parcel of land and whether you have a group of people willing to put in the work of getting a garden going. The starting point will be different for all of us.

4. Let’s start planning

15. January 2002

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Now that we have seen how other community gardens are run, it’s time for our group to make a start planning

5. Where will we garden?

15. January 2002

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Having formed a group and planned your garden project, it's time to find a site if you do not have one already.

6. Designing the garden

15. January 2002

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Now that you have brought your gardening group together and found land, it’s time to start the design process...

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Safety in the garden

Permaculture design’s role in community gardening

Basic infrastructure for successful community gardening

Getting started checklist

1. Making a start

2. Challenges

3. Bottom-up approach

4. Let’s start planning

5. Where will we garden?

6. Designing the garden

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