About National Community Garden Day
This November as part of Urban Agriculture Month we will celebrate our first National Community Gardens Day!
Get your garden involved and hold an:
| open day | workshop | picnic | other idea!
…and invite the wider community in to experience and enjoy what we all love about community gardening
- thanks for showing interest in organising a National Community Garden Day event on Sunday 26 November 2023 (or thereabouts)
- event are self-organised by community gardens around Australia who promote their own events independently
- Community Gardens Australia provides an event listing service and can promote these events on our social media — this is a great opportunity to promote events to a wider audience
- your garden may need public liability insurance
- during the planning phase for your event, check your site for any potential hazards that could cause injury.
How to upload your event/garden to our website…
There are two ways you can add your event and/or list your community garden on our map — either as a paid-up member or registered non-member (see details below).
Once you are a member or registered non-member, here is how you can upload your:
1. National Community Garden Day event:
- Log into our website with your username and password.
- once logged in, you will be directed to your dashboard
- click on ‘Add Garden/Event Listing’ in the menu bar
- complete the form (you can make a graphic — use template below), preview and if all is correct, hit submit.
2. Community Garden map listing:
- Check if your garden is already listed. Go to the homepage and put in your suburb into the ‘Location’ box.
- If you see your garden IS LISTED, contact our website administrator who can move the garden to your account so you can edit the details whenever you need to.
- If your garden IS NOT LISTED, log into our website with your username and password.
- once logged in, you will be directed to your dashboard
- click on ‘Add Garden/Event Listing’ in the menu bar
- complete the form, preview and if all correct, hit submit.
1. Become a member of Community Garden Australia
Support the work of Community Garden Australia by joining us, then:
- list your National Community Garden Day event and/or
- add your community garden to our Map Directory if you are not already listed.
You will then be able to receive our member benefits.
Follow the link below, choose the type of garden membership you would like and complete the membership forms
2. Register as a non-member of Community Garden Australia
If you didn’t want to be a paid up member just yet, you can register as a non-member by clicking on the button below to add your details to be able to add your event or community garden to our map.
As a non-member, your garden only receives the benefit of listing your event or community garden, rather than receiving other benefits of membership listed in the link above.
Graphic square template…
If you are interested in using our Affinity Pro template image file, email us.
1. Download jpg file [1.5MB] — blank
2. Download PDF file [1MB] — text suggestions
Urban Agriculture website graphics
If you would like to upload your event to the Urban Agriculture Month website, you can use these templates:
1. Download jpg file [439kB] — text suggestions
2. Download PDF file [715kB] — text suggestions
