Our Vision: Happy, healthy, environmentally sustainable life for all

Our Community Garden provides a friendly, welcoming and safe environment for all who wish to utilize it. This space enables people to share their knowledge and help others to learn practical skills. Our work makes a valuable contribution towards sustainable living (encompassing organic gardening practices, permaculture principles, water wise methods and minimisation of waste). Our goodwill and generosity encourage a supportive, inclusive environment where people feel valued, garden networks are formed and education is a priority. Our Community Garden helps to build community strength & resilience whilst modelling sustainable ways of living, including growing produce locally.

Our Ethos:

Our Community Garden thrives on the involvement of our members and visitors. Collectively we’re nurturing something much bigger than our own small veggie patches.

We are creating a place where people enjoy to be, and where our gardens have every opportunity to flourish. The Garden is an oasis on hot days, and a sheltered, sunny haven in cooler months. It’s a place where we can be alone, or in company.Whether tending to plots, picking produce, volunteering in the café or on other projects, participating in working bees, socialising or sitting quietly, it’s a unique natural environment that we are creating together.

The Community Garden is a place where friendship and connections grow, and people from different cultures, backgrounds and generations learn from each other. It’s a place where knowledge about gardening in local conditions is shared.

We learn what it takes to keep theGarden healthy, like how to improve and replenish the soil, protect plants from temperature extreme, diseases and pests. There’s always someone close by who can help with tips and skills, like fixing an irrigation leak!

It’s amazing how much happens at the Garden, much more perhaps than most of us realise. 

There’s always jobs to do. Some are ongoing, others come and go, and we share them- like cleaning out the fishpond, teaching school kids how to make compost, going off to the cattle yards to collect manure, turning off a sprinkler someone left on by mistake, baking cakes for the cafe, washing dishes, taking tea towels home to wash, offering produce from our own plot to fundraise, planning the next social event, and so on. 

Everyone has something to offer!