The number of community gardens is growing across Australia. As well as being places where people with little of their own garden space can grow fruit and vegetables, they are places of conversation, enjoyment and learning.

If you are interested in finding out more about community gardens or contacting them, enquire at Australian City Farms and Community Gardens Network or Cultivating Community.

What’s happening in some of these gardens is found in the links below:

What to do for Flooded Gardens

What to do for flooded gardens is, unfortunately, a question more people need to ask.  It seems that our climate is making extreme rainfall and…

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SGA Community Gardens Project successfully completed

In February 2009, bushfires of unprecedented size and ferocity swept across regional Victoria.  During the worst days of the firestorms, 173 people…

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What are the possibilities when modern communities grow more of their own food?

Earlier in the year around 70 SGA supporters made the trek out to Brunswick to participate in the first in a series of World Café style events as…

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A New Life Through Gardening

Part of the pleasure of gardening comes in the sharing of plants, seeds, learning and experience with other gardeners. There are so many stories of…

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Toolangi & Castella Community Garden

Amidst the towering Mountain Ash forests of the Kinglake Ranges in Victoria, sit the two small conjoined communities of Toolangi & Castella.  In…

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Jindivick Community Garden Open Day

Saturday 20th October 2012 from 10am to 4pm Jindivick Community Garden, at Kydd Parke Reserve in Jindivick is participating in West Gippsland’s…

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Yinnar & District Community Garden is shaping up!

A boggy paddock at the back of the old butter factory in Yinnar has been transformed into a dynamic and creative community garden that is drawing…

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Community Gardens – 12 months on, the journey continues!

It is nice to reflect on the year that has been and to acknowledge with a sense of accomplishment a year of hard work and many milestones. And I’m…

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Jindivick Community Garden

In the words of that doggedly determined and ever quotable Sir Winston Churchill, THIS is ‘the end of the beginning’. It is the end of winter and,…

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Community Gardens for Gippsland

An exciting community project has been bubbling away in two Gippsland communities since the beginning of this year. Both the Jindivick community in…

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Community Gardens

Community Gardens can be found dotted around cities everywhere. Land is often supplied by local councils. It is then divided into small garden…

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Creating Community through Gardening

Right in the centre of the city of Newcastle in New South Wales is a community garden with a twist. Fig Tree Community Garden doesn't have…

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Guerrilla Gardening

Bombs, guns, pitchforks, masks, false identities and missions under the cover of darkness... this ain't a warzone, or a bad Tom Cruise film, this is…

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