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 […]
Mad Hatter’s Tea Party in Tassie
The Taroona Neighbourhood Garden had a wild day last November with a Mad Hatters Tea Party which was part of a Taroona community celebration with the Taroona Art Trail…
Welcome from incoming ACFCGN President
Welcome community gardeners and city farmers from across Australia to our first edition of the ACFCGN’s enews.
President’s report — ACFCGN AGM 1 October 2016
2016 has been a big year for the Australian City Farms and Community Gardens Network. For several years now the ACFCGN management Committee has discussed and researched the pros and cons of having a paid membership system.
SA community garden get together a success
The Spire Community Garden were lovely hosts of the second network gathering for 2016, including a compost workshop with Alan Shepherd and the resident bees…
3000acres have big dreams for Melbourne
3000acres are working with a number of groups in Melbourne to help them secure a place to grow food – why not help them achieve their big dreams….
News from Harvest Corner Community Garden in Gray, NT
The committee of Harvest Corner Community Garden in Gray, NT have teamed up with The Smith Family and Tropiculture Australia to provide workshops for Roseberry Middle School for the second year running. The workshops have once again been a great syuccess with the students really engaging and learning a lot from the experience.
Impending loss of community garden highlights need to connect
A FRIEND alerted me this morning to the impending sale of public open space at Suffolk Park that reportedly includes a community garden as well as a children’s playground.
Costas Georgiadis, our ambassador, celebrates 20 years of ACFCGN
The Australian City Farms & Community Gardens Network is excited to have our ambassador, Costa Georgiadis (host of Gardening Australia) celebrating our 20 years with us.
Celebrating 20 years of networking city farms & community gardens
If you are actively involved in city farms and community gardens in Australia, join us in Perth on Saturday 1 October as we celebrate 20 years of networking city farms and community gardens around Australia. BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL by Tuesday 27 October to help us with catering and make sure that our venue is big enough to cater for the number of bookings…