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The community garden experience
ADVENTURES IN COMMUNITY GARDENING ... our experience Australia-wide
City planning, neighbourhood improvement & community gardens
Gardens amid the towers
Community gardens have started to appear amid the public housing towers of Sydney and Melbourne
Community gardens help reduce crime on estates, study says
A university study lists community gardens among the initiatives that reduce crime on housing eststes
Gardening your community - innovative ways to bring life into your neighbourhood
Read Jacqui Hunter's Australian City Farms & Community Gardens Network conference presentation of March 2006. Jackie works with community gardeners in Adelaide and operates her Permaculture/landscape design company, Hunter-Gatherer Designs
Community gardens as 'third places' - cooperation, deliberative democracy & conviviality
Cooperation, conviviality, shared initiative make community gardens third places
Third places are those where people come together to meet, socialise and plan. Community gardens live up to Ray Oldenberg's criteria for third places.
Education and training in community gardens
Community gardens take on sustainability education (cross reference to ABC Organic Gardener archive. 2007)
For some community gardens growing food is not enough. they seek a larger role in education for sustainability.
Dungog goes for holistic training
Dungog Community Garden on NSW's mid-north coast has become a centre for sustainability training in the region. A 2004 story by Faith Thomas. Published 2004.
Learning in community gardens (cross reference to ABC Organic Gardener archive)
The idea that community gardens can nourish the mind as well as the body is quickly catching on as gardeners in the eastern states and all the way to Perth offer informal education to their members and the public
Arts in the garden
Arts in the Community Garden
Mary O'Connell started the Art in the Garden team at the UNSW Community Permaculture Garden. Her inspirations range from the fine art of participatory mosaic works to performance arts such as music and poetry readings
Embracing art in SA
claire fulton takes us on a tour of arts in community gardens in South Australia
Ideas for community gardens
Waste management, reuse, recycling...
Angel Street gardeners enjoy compost sandwich
Leith Mansell and Tamara Bligh describe their innovative approach to compost making
Green waste solution at Northey Street City Farm
Creative imagination and innovation have produced a solution to green waste at Brisbane's Northey Street City Farm. Green Waste coordinator, Tash Morton reports
Seed saving & biodiversity...
Saving our seed heritage
Community gardeners are setting up local seed networks to preserve the biodiversity of our food plants
Other good ideas in community gardens...
Community gardens as development aid
Aid agencies report different outcomes from community gardening in developing countries.
Community garden exports technology to Pacific
Brisbane's Northey Street City Farm is assisting a development project in the Solomon Islands
Fern Avenue Community Garden sows seeds for health
A report on the Seeds for Health program , Adelaide
Our learnings
What have we as a national urban garden-agriculture movement learned from the loss of two of Sydney's prominent community gardens?
Local government & community gardening
Local government's role
Local government has a vital role in community gardening. Council staffer and community worker Rhonda Hunt explores the potential
Local government takes over community garden
The months spanning the end of 2006 and the beginning of 2007 brought the loss of two of Sydney's outstanding community gardens. Waverly Council's decision not to renew the lease on the Eastern Suburbs Community Garden and to take it over brings into question their committment to civil society. The complicity of the Waverly Greens in Council's decision brings into question their much vaunted committment to community.
Places
Community gardening in Hong Kong
Landscape architect and Permaculture designer, Morag Gamble, takes us on a tour of community gardening in Hong Kong
Organic Christchurch - community gardening puts down roots in New Zealand
The Christchurch Community Garden Association has created the organisational framework for the development of community gardens in New Zealand
Sydney's community gardening experience
After a slow start community gardening has become popular in Sydney
The Organic Gardener archive
An archive of articles published by the Australian broadcasting Corporation's print magazine, ABC Organic Gardener...
A celebration of garden agriculture and conviviality
The fourth annual conference of the Australian City Farms & Community Garden Network was the most ambitious to date. After getting inspired by the four day event, attendees toured community gardens in Melbourne then attended the annual CERES Harvest Fesival, a celebration of community gardening, local food, music and learning.
Published: July 2007.
Beelerong - productive oasis in Brisbane's east
It's Morningside's hidden gem. Beelerong Community Farm is a suburban hub where food is grown and preserved, wasterwater treated for irrigation, community groups find acceptance and people meet.
Community garden cooking with cobb
If you grow it you might as well cook it, and what better way to cook your garden produce than in a cobb oven made by community gardeners? Before she migrated to Tasmania, Linda McKee was the acknowledged queen of cobb, at least in Brisbane where she was a participant at Northery Streeet City Farm. As gardeners at Northey Street, Katoomba Community Garden, Garden of Eden, Veg Out Community Garden and others have discovered, the simple cobb oven can be the thing that gardener conviviality is based around.
Community gardens take on sustainability education
For some community gardeners, growing food and creating a sense of place are not enough. They are taking on a broader social role in education for sustainability.
Published: July 2007.
Learning in community gardens
Learning is a core experience in community gardening, whether it is new gardeners informally learning basic horticulture or the organised learning that takes place through formal training. From early places like Eveleigh Streeet Community Garden through to Fairfield City Farm and Albury-Wodonga's IMBY (In My Back Yard), learning is one of the benefits that attract peeople to community gardening.
Once a station, now a garden
East Melbourne's Garden of Eden bloomed on what was one a railway station on the St Kilda line. Like some other community gardens, Garden of Eden branched out into sustainability education.
Paradise - it's in the Inner West
Glovers Community Garden in Sydney's oldest. Hidden on a slope above a sports field near a branch of the harbour, the community garden has seen a variable participation over the decades. Just a couple years ago a new group of gardeners started to revive the garden.
Sure, small is beautiful. It's also productive
Small community gardens can be productive as well as compact. You see that in Goody Patch Community Garden in suburban Adelaide and at Kurruyu Pingyarendi garden in Melbourne.
Sydenysiders get their hands dirty
Written six or so years ago, the story describes community gardening in Sydney at that time.
PAGE UPDATED... Thursday, 7 June 2007
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