Alice Springs Community Garden
Community garden
Basic Information
The Alice Springs Community Garden (the Garden) is located at Frances Smith Memorial Park, Burke Street, Old Eastside, Alice Springs.
The garden is a thriving hub of activity with community gardening, workshops, events and working bees.It provides many communal resources including a solar pergola with small stage area, a Bodhi tree meditation spot, a wood-fired pizza oven, a mandala garden and other community plots, fruit trees, a bushfoods and medicine garden, ponds and a impressive worm farm, composting and propagation complex.
In addition there are around 50 well-sized and automatically irrigated individual private plots for lease.Plot holders pay a monthly rental plus a plot setup fee and this gives them access to a plot, mulch, compost, irrigation and water.Regular working bees are held from 8am on the 1st and 3rd Sundays or every month. Volunteers are always welcome, just remember to bring a hat, closed shoes, protective clothing and a water bottle.
