connecting city farms & community gardens around Australia
It’s exciting times here at ACFCGN! We have our new Ambassador for Sustainability, John McBain, our new Project Officer, Kylie Newberry and myself as the new President. We’ve all been busy working towards reinvigorating our organisation to meet the expectations of you, our wonderful community gardening community! One of the most important things we are […]
ACFCGN Spring 2018 President’s report on declaring love on waste and the community garden survey…
West Launceston Primary School Community Garden hosted an Introduction to Permaculture Course during September for the Afghan Hazara Community.
ACFCGN invites gardens to take the online community garden survey so that we can provide good information about the trends and status of gardens right around the country. The deadline was Monday 8 October.
ACFCGN are excited to let members know that the Australian Urban Research Network (AURIN) has reached out and offered to support the Garden Map Directory that we currently manage.
As part of the Tamar Valley Peace Festival, ABC Gardening Australia’s Costa Georgiadis visited a number of gardens around Launceston sharing his passion and wisdom for the role gardens play in creating a peaceful world.
Bright, fun and creative is a good description of The Vegetable Plot, a group of musicians with a radical message of good food and good health. That is why the Australian City Farms & Community Gardens Network (ACFCGN) is partnering with them.
The Australian City Farms & Community Gardens Network invites you to take our annual survey of community gardens. The survey takes about 5 minutes to complete and captures important information about how community gardens operate and benefit their communities.
Winter crops in bloom After a quiet weekend away in the hills of the Lamington National Park, I took the opportunity to call in and see the team from the Beechmont Community Garden. Met the lovely Laura who was busy on the BBQ and got a little insight into what they are up to. New […]
The Australian City Farms & Community Gardens Network are pledging our official support of The Vegetable Plot. The Vegetable Plot are an award-winning bunch of roots musicians who have sprung from the underground on a radical mission: to get kids to fall in love with vegetables! We want to show our support for this amazing […]