community gardens

Old Homestead Community Garden Compost Update

Heidi — Tue, 11 May 2010 09:51:24 +0000

Saturday's turnout at the garden was the best in a long while, and we achieved heaps. (2 in fact.) Nine adults plus children and a mulcher meant we now have a new compost pile, and the best of the compost from the "old" heap has been turned, covered, and is just maturing to perfection over the next few weeks.

New Community Composting Facility

Pippa Coom — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 03:37:54 +0000

The Wilton Street Community Garden (part of Grey Lynn 2030) recently completed construction of our new Community Composting Facility. Located in the garden at the top of Wilton Street, the facility consists of three large wooden bins designed to turn local organic waste into usable garden compost.

A Green Light For Guerilla Gardeners

hjones — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:06:55 +0000

By Sue Jackson

2 Nov 2009

Guerrilla gardens might not have 'owners' but they sure have defenders, as Yarra Council discovered when it tried to wipe the gardens out. Sue Jackson tells the story

Urban Food Production at the Expo

freefood.org.nz — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:49:50 +0000

It was the Transition Towns presentation on Urban Food Production today at the cathedral. There were three speakers on the subject, all taking different approaches to the problem of what to do about food in the city.

Food for Everyone

James Samuel — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:17:24 +0000

In the last 12 months attention to localising food has increased so dramatically that it gives me faith we can create new systems to provide for the well being of many people while regenerating the earth after the last 200 years of exponential growth in consumption and extraction. To find out more, follow any of the tags at the top of this post, or click on the graphic above.

The start of spring

Rimu — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 02:47:25 +0000

Spent sunday afternoon digging around in the local community garden. Plenty of weeds to pull and compost to prepare!

It was a beautiful day (for a change), and I'm really looking forward to a good 8 months or so of growing things coming up :-)