Planning and starting your community garden by Russ Grayson + Fiona Campbell

< making a start < challenges < bottom-up approach < let's start planning
< where will we garden? < designing the garden < let's start building
< the management phase < gardening cooking and eating
< your community garden project < useful skills for community garden organisers
< member agreement < full document for printing

GARDENING, COOKING, EATING

The hard work of planning and building is now over and you have settled into an easygoing gardening routine. There's more time for socialising and to sit and watch the garden.

Cooking is a natural accompaniment to community gardening. If you have a fireplace or gas cooker in your garden you can prepare delicious meals. Betty Bailey demonstrates cooking from the garden at Young Earth Community Garden, Chester Hill, Sydney.

Now, in the company of new friends you have made during your community gardening adventure, it’s time to enjoy your first crop of fresh, organically grown vegetables and herbs... so who's going to light up the barbecue and brew tea made from herbs we have grown?

PAGE UPDATED... Tuesday, 15 January 2002