Five Dock – Green Passion Garden
Green Passion Garden is a family affair. Our kids take great delight in watching seeds germinate, hand-pollinating flowers and harvesting ripe produce. Over the past four years we’ve learned so…
Canada Bay Council gardens
Drummoyne – Genevieve’s garden
We try to take a whole of ecosystem approach to managing the garden, using flowering plants to attract good bugs to the garden to manage bug infestations (like aphids and…
Hornsby Council Gardens
Pennant Hills – Stephanie Robertson’s garden
I had very little interest in gardening until I was steered towards the (now defunct) ‘Introduction to Permaculture’ course at Ryde Horticultural College in 2011. Permaculture is an integrated design…
Berowra – Binnowee Community Garden
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…
Arcadia – Faye and David’s Garden
We have 15 boxes full of veggies, a lot of fruit trees and edible flowers, chickens, ducks and beautiful garden.
Thornleigh – Highland Urban Farm
In 2017 – 3 young kids in tow – we returned to Australia after 4.5 years living in California. Part of the reason for returning was a decision to make…
Hornsby Heights – Natalie’s Garden
Our garden is a small, young suburban garden with many raised beds. We back onto bushland so have divided our space by a fence for natural, native plants and edible…
Thornleigh – Selina’s Garden
Selina’s garden is on a suburban block of 1/6 acre. It holds over fifteen fruit and nut trees, six garden beds, a banana circle, a food forest fence, a bathtub…
Mount Colah – Matt & Katerina’s Garden
Matthew and Katerina began their Mount Colah garden, using permaculture principles, when they moved in at the end of 2017. In such a short time, they have already transformed their…
Hunters Hill Council Gardens
Henley Green Community Garden
The Happy Hens Social Enterprise consists of Helen Kirkman, Emma Paxton and Nicole Miranda, hence H.E.N. Henley Green Community Garden is our second community garden in the Gladesville/Hunters Hill area.…
Ku-ring-gai Council Gardens
St Ives – Dave’s Garden
We have been working to make our home and garden sustainable since we moved in 6 years ago. We have 33,500L of tank capacity dedicated to irrigation, with hundreds of…
West Pymble Community Garden
We are a small community garden in West Pymble, located behind the shops. First started by Better Homes and Gardens, the garden wilted away to a patch of dirt over…
Killara – Mike’s garden
While we do have plenty of space, we are renting the house so we can’t make too many permanent changes to the garden – otherwise half the lawn would be…
Turramurra Lookout Community Garden
We will be celebrating our 10 year anniversary next year so the Edible Food Trail will be part of our activities & events for the year. Good timing! Ku-ring-gai Council…
Lane Cove Council Gardens
Lane Cove – Cassandra’s garden
We have a small veggie garden in our front yard with three 3×1 meter raised beds. We grow seasonal vegetables and herbs and build trellises for climbing vegetables like beans…
Lane Cove – Peter’s garden
We have been struggling to reboot our garden during this hot weather, with the lack of water and change of season . Over the last few months I have added…
Lane Cove West Public School edible garden
Surrounded by a leafy environment, Lane Cove West PS school community are proud of our vegetable gardens, chicken coop, fruit trees, native bee hives, Indigenous peoples bush tucker garden and…
Lane Cove – Chris and Desilee’s garden
Our Lane Cove Council Backyard Habitat member garden consists of many wonderful open spaces for entertaining our family, friends and neighbours, for our chickens to roam in and for our…
Lane Cove – Alan’s garden
Our garden (and house) has a permaculture heart, with a focus on harvesting the maximum energy available from the sun and the surrounding natural environment. We have:• European Honey Bees• Chickens in…
Longueville – Mandy’s Japanese fusion style garden
Mandy’s garden is a fusion between Permaculture and Japanese styles. Having recently left a large Permaculture garden for something a bit flatter and easier to manage, she is embracing the…
Lane Cove – Wendy & Alasdair’s streetside garden
Wendy and Alasdair’s streetside garden shows what can be done with a small space. Next to the footpath, Pepinos and Midyim-berries offer nibble-food for neighbourhood children. Also, in spring, Pineapple…
Lane Cove – Bridget and Luke’s Garden
Bridget and her partner, Luke, have spent the last 11 years slowly developing a sustainable permaculture garden at their home and on the verge for neighbours to share. Relatively low…
North Sydney Council Gardens
Kirribilli – Milson Community Garden
Our garden is a wonderful community activity in the picturesque harbour-side setting of Milson Park, Kirribilli (behind Ensemble Theatre and Sydney Flying Squadron). We have a fantastic group of dedicated…
Coal Loader Cottage Community Garden
The Coal Loader Cottage Community Garden group meets Wednesday 9.30am till 12 noon, and the same time on the last Saturday of the month. Residents are welcome to join-in during these…
Coal Loader Platform Community Garden
If you don’t have the space or resources at home, you can grow your own food at the Coal Loader Platform Community Garden. But this community garden is about more…
Northern Beaches Council gardens
Dangar Island Community Garden
The Dangar Island Community Garden is located adjacent to the Bowling Club. We have several large plots including boats, maintained by members of the community and supplying produce to the…
Elanora Heights – Permanora – Selina’s garden
We have 1200 sq m permaculture garden with and a sustainable house based on Sydney’s Northern Beaches. We have chooks, worm farms, composting, native bees, native bush tucker and medicine…
Manly – Katja’s garden
Katja’s garden is a small urban permaculture garden filled to the brim with edibles. Every inch is used to grow food in raised garden beds, wicking containers and pots. Join…
Fairlight – Rob’s garden
Our garden is in the backyard of a semi-detached house so space is pretty small. It is a kitchen garden designed on ‘Permaculture Principles’ working with the natural attributes of…
Killarney Heights – Ping’s garden
Inspired by the books of “Animal Vegetable Miracle” by Barbara Kingsolver and “Introduction to Permaculture” by Bill Mollison, this progressive and young garden is all about learning the characteristics of…
Seaforth – Chris’s garden
Our garden has been slowly developed over the 8 years we’ve been in here. My aim was to be fully sustainable but I’ve realised it’s a lot to ask of…
Parramatta Council Gardens
Northmead – Greg and Vera’s garden
President and past president PSW. Information about this award winning edible garden: over 10 grow beds front and back yards verge growing chickens 30 KL water storage fruit trees tropicals…
North Rocks – Penny’s Garden
Penny and James have been gardening here for 7 years. Our suburb name of North Rocks accurately describes our ground, it’s a steep block of sandstone with a thin layer…
Epping – Lucinda’s Garden
YES, YOU CAN grow food in a small urban space AND have your space looking attractive too! Come and see how Lucinda has creatively managed site issues such as shade,…
Carlingford – Cecilia’s Garden
Cecilia’s permaculture garden largely follows the laissez faire method with an ongoing search for crops that: · Satisfy household tastes or provide for swaps · Do NOT satisfy local wildlife…
Penrith Council gardens
St Clair – The Choko Tree Farm – Linda and Nevin’s garden
We grow as much of our own veggies as we can organically using open pollinated seed, which we save ourselves where we can. We make seed raising mix using worm…
Ryde Council Gardens
Marsfield – Macquarie Community Garden
It’s a community garden with predominantly edibles grown. Many members have their own plots and grow what they would like while we have communal plots to share with everyone. We…
Ryde – The Habitat community garden
ONLY OPEN SAT 10am-4pm The Habitat is a community plant nursery and open (no fences) food garden. We are at 251 Quarry Road, Ryde at the entrance to Santa Rosa…
Ryde – Royal Rehab Productive Garden
We have a Productive Garden which our patients, clients, residents and therapists are encouraged to use for various types of therapy. Our Clinical Horticultural Therapist, Claire Boyle, manages this garden…
Ryde – Sharon’s edible garden refuge
A bit about the garden… I use a few small sections of an otherwise large expanse of lawn. Because my soil is full of old concrete beds and rubbish I…
Macquarie University Sustainability Garden
Since 2014 Macquarie University Sustainability has been working on creating an onsite sustainable garden that incorporates permaculture gardening design principles. Permaculture is essentially an amalgamation of the words “Permanent Agriculture”. It combines landscape…
Denistone – Margaret’s Garden
Margaret Mossakowska has spent her childhood surrounded by ornamental and productive gardens her parents created. Once she acquired her own block of land, she designed a permaculture garden with the…
The Hills Shire Council Gardens
West Pennant Hills – Chantel’s garden – The Compact Eatable Entertainer
This garden has been an enjoyable challenge. When we moved in, August 2016, the house was smothered by 23 Leylandii pine trees that where destroying our plumbing and retaining walls,…
Willoughby Council Gardens
Lane Cove North – Mowbray Public School 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…
Naremburn – Sarah’s edible food forest
When we moved to Naremburn in 2011 I had a blank canvas of grass and concrete only 7 meters wide with which to create a garden full of edibles. I…
Naremburn Community Garden – Nolan Crescent
The Nolan Crescent garden is a great example of a wicking system built across a slope, so the water flows from the highest bed to the lowest. The garden is…
Willoughby – Fiona’s Driveway Veggie Patch
Fiona’s driveway veggie patch began its life early in 2018. During a renovation the previous year, the old concrete driveway along the side of her house had to be lifted…
Willoughby – The Market Garden Park
Garden Market Garden Park is a new community garden in a new housing development called KIAH. Launching this new garden we have some enthusiastic residents who keep an eye on…
Willoughby – Market Garden
The market garden on this site was one of 6 gardens located between Eastern Valley Way and Alpha Road from 1880 to 1950. The garden was originally farmed by a…
Northbridge – Bernadette and Steve’s Garden
Biodynamic farmers often say ‘I grow soil’ – this approach drives Bernadette and Steve from Northbridge who have been avid composters and worm farmers for…..ever. They follow a no-dig gardening…
North Willoughby – Chris’s low maintenance edible garden
A first glance, Chris’s garden in Willoughby looks very conventional, with lawn, patio, trees and borders. But Chris is a bit lazy around the garden, so his interest in growing…
Naremburn Community Garden – Bongalong Street
Naremburn Community Gardens comprise two small gardens. One occupies a small space at the end of Bongalong Street surrounded by natives, the other is a nature strip garden on the…
Northbridge – Warners Park Community Garden
Warners Park Community Garden is in a beautiful valley on Council land in Northbridge. The garden has been around for many years. Many will remember it as a fun-loving place but…
Middle Cove – Nita’s garden
Nita started her edible garden three years ago and still considers herself as a novice gardener. She used to describe herself as a plant killer and wouldn’t venture beyond succulents.…
Willoughby – Wendy’s Garden
Wendy is a passionate permaculture gardener. With a garden containing a large wicking bed, lots of edibles grown in bags and pots, many varieties of herbs used in Asian and…