• INFO SHEET: Materials for building

    The public is protective of its public lands such as city parks, and poorly built and maintained community gardens are likely to trigger complaints to council. 

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  • Common sense garden safety

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

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  • INFO SHEET: Community gardening

    Community gardens are found on land owned by local government, schools, churches, and on state government social housing estates.

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  • INFO SHEET: Organic gardening

    Organic gardening is an approach to growing food, ornamentals, and native plants using a combination of traditional and scientific gardening techniques.

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  • Composting Made Easy with ADAM

    Composting turns our kitchen and garden wastes into plant food — almost 50 percent of waste produced in the home can be composted.

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  • INFO SHEET: Creating good soils

    Fertile, nutritious soils are the basis of prolific, productive organic gardens.

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  • INFO SHEET: No-dig or mulch gardening

    No-dig gardening reuses waste newspaper and cardboard. Food and garden wastes are turned into compost. Recycled materials such as crushed concrete, bricks, pavers, wood chip and sawdust can be reused to make paths and garden edges.

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  • INFO SHEET: Using water wisely

    Combined with the compost and mulch, harvesting and using rainwater is another water-conserving technique...

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  • INFO SHEET: Making a food forest

    In designing our home or community garden we can increase the quantity and diversity of food it yields if we include a forest garden, sometimes called a food forest or an orchard.

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  • INFO SHEET: Managing garden pests

    Integrated Pest Management — known as IPM — is the smart approach to managing garden pests.

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