Lemon myrtle a tasty tree
Lemon myrtle is an indigenous Australian tree for larger community or home gardens unless grown as a pruned specimen. Left to reach its full growth form it would be a suitable tree for urban parks.
Anglesea CG pumpkin competition
The Anglesea CG recently held a Pumpkin Competition and what a fabulous day it was. Winsome Coutts is the ‘Gardening Guru’ who organised this event along with a committee of dedicated volunteers…
Which Kale is really a Swede?!
People are very excited about kale these days. This is a love-hate vegetable. There are signs in Sydney suburbs declaring it a magical wonder food. An article in the Sydney Morning Herald reckons people only eat it when it tastes nothing like kale e.g. the famous kale chip…
Lillypilly time
The little red fruit on the ground were the giveaway. Reddish and around a centimetre in diameter, they suggested something was happening above. Looking up, there it was. The tree was coming into fruit, its magenta coloured fruit contrasting vividly with the dark green foliage of the drip-tip leaves. Autumn and winter are lillipilly time. […]
ACFCGN Gathering and AGM 2017
7-8 October 2017 — for the ACFCGN annual gathering and AGM at CERES on Saturday 7 October and garden tours in Geelong on Sunday 8 October 2017.
Join in on International Permaculture Day 2017
With its focus on local action for the greater good, International Permaculture Day (IPD) shows that permaculture is a global movement of creative people building communities that are resilient and convivial…
A great tree falls in our forest — goodbye Glenda
It is with great sadness that we say goodbye to the incredible Glenda M Lindsay, great friend and supporter of community gardens and all things urban agriculture…
An interview about footpath gardens raises questions
It was an imaginative idea, I thought, when it started to attract a greater number of practitioners almost a decade ago. Quickly I saw a few problems developing and I wrote a short ebook — Farmers of the Urban Footpath (and here) — as a compilation of design ideas and to set out a social and urban development rationale to support the practice.
It’s been 20 years — the eleven big achievements of the ACFCGN
IT HAS BEEN 20 years since the Australian City Farms & Community Gardens Network bloomed into existence like a seed in fertile soil. It started when Fiona Campbell and I called a meeting at the old (and now demolished) Randwick Community Centre of what we imagined would be the mere handful of community gardeners in Sydney.
ACFCGN — our story
ADDRESS AT ACFCGN MEETING, MURDOCH UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY GARDEN, PERTH, 31.09.16. ACFCGN – outline of talk on network It was 1995 when Fiona Campbell and I called a meeting of people interested in community gardening at Randwick Community Centre. It had been a decade before that when Glovers Community Garden made its start on state government […]