Participating in the Physical Edible Garden Trail this year
A water smart street garden with Australian Native plants and raised garden beds to grow veggies with inground composting and rainwater retention. The garden is built to retain all rainwater on site by laying agpipes on the perimeter. Native plants have been attracting a lot of wildlife – wallabies, birds, bees. The garden will keep[…]
Binnowee Community Garden is an initiative of the Berowra Baptist Church, and is on the property of Berowra Baptist Church and Berowra Christian School, and open to the wider community on weekends and during school holidays. It is a herb, vegetable, fruit and flower garden, with five raised beds, gazebo, composting bins, a bathtub worm[…]
Suburban garden with fruit trees (lemon lime orange nectarine peach and pears) Chooks, native bees, 2 worm farms, outdoor potting table, compost, veggie garden beds, garden sheds
Anzac Park Community garden was opened in March 2019. It is designed in the shape of the Anzac Star to complement the park and the Anzac Memorial with its rows of Turpentine trees representing the tough Anzac soldiers. We have around 30 volunteers and many new friendships have been made through the garden. We have[…]
The design of this garden is based on permaculture and food forests (also known as regenerative agriculture and syntropic farming), representing wholistic land rehabilitation. It approaches land use from a traditional aboriginal custodianship perspective, equally focussing on preserving the environment, supporting local native animals and providing a viable farm/forest model that takes in to account[…]
Growing food is a passion for Jitendra. Despite the short time since moving, his garden is full of abundance with a verge garden and raised garden beds at the front and a variety of features in the back garden, including family space. Here you can find fruit trees, a banana circle, chickens, solar and water[…]
The Family Paddock is our 14-acre patch of paradise which we are aiming to become largely self-sufficient using organic principles. We began our journey in October 2017. The land was very badly neglected for the previous 19 years so we have spent a lot of time weeding, especially lantana and privet. So far we have[…]
Our school is situated on Sydney’s Northern Beaches on the Southern end of the Peninsula in a leafy yet vibrant suburb. The 1000m2 food garden is located at our Yatama Street campus. We run a unique Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program throughout the school that our students love. Both our garden and our kitchen are[…]
Wentworthville Community Garden is an established community garden. It is a community space where local residents with a common interest in gardening come together to participate in activities that encourage harmony, cooperation and a sense of belonging. It is run and managed by volunteers on land owned by the former Holroyd Council (now Cumberland City[…]
A bit about the Garden Mowbray Public School hosts a large vegetable garden, bush tucker garden and orchard. These gardens represent many positive years of community connections between students, teachers, parents, council and businesses. The vegetable garden in particular has undergone a transformation in the last few years. Following the school rebuild at the end[…]