COMMUNITY GARDENS: council concerns
Story and photos by Russ Grayson It seems a simple thing for councils to do. Handing over an area of
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Category: Start a community garden
Need ideas to start a community garden? Here is a list of information in this category:
- INFO SHEETS: Starting — Common objections
- INFO SHEETS: A checklist — Template for Management Plan — Garden design
- INFO SHEETS: Site analysis — Materials for building — Safety — Design for verge gardens
- Council concerns — Social design — A useful book — Permaculture design
- Basic infrastructure — Crisis response to food insecurity — Benefits
- Insurance, fundraising and work health & safety.
In designing community gardens, social design comes first
Community garden planning should be a people-led, not a design-led process.
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Book to help start and nurture community gardens
Those South Australians are an innovative and busy lot. Now they've launched a book on starting and nurturing community gardens...
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Permaculture design’s role in community gardening
This is an opinion piece about the role of the permaculture design system in community gardening...
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Basic infrastructure for successful community gardening
THERE IS A COMMON SET OF DESIGN ELEMENTS that make the experience of community gardening an enjoyable one.
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Crisis response — community gardeners a cadre to scale-up urban food production
Community gardeners could form a cadre of experienced trainers to scale-up food production in the cities in the event of
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Community gardening — the benefits
A brief summary of the main benefits of community gardening. If you have more, please add them in the 'comments'....
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