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Rows of garden beds with poly tunnel in background

The Farm

Gosford

Our school farm is rapidly becoming a centre for sustainability education. We teach students and teachers from Henry Kendall and Gosford High schools. The farm currently has 53 chickens; that get to roam the entire six acres during the school day, two young heifers, eight sheep and seven lambs. The heifers and sheep form a 'flerd' that is rotated through grazing cells in an attempt to teach students the benefits of cell grazing and regenerative agriculture. We have a large market garden that works on permaculture principles; providing food for students and staff, two recently constructed swales, a citrus orchard, two fully irrigated greenhouses, a large incubator and much more

Status: Published

Colourful sign for the Wyoming and North Gosford Eco Gardens sitting above a corrugated iron raised garden bed

Wyoming and North Gosford Eco Community Garden

Wyoming

Our Garden started from small beginnings in 2013 with a stony, dusty, bare portion of our Community Centre space, the occasional boggy bit after heavy rain, through a few false starts, a definite just do it attitude, with lots of laughter, and a few tears. To re-use, re-purpose, and sometimes re-invent, has always been the focus. Our community compost grew from one wobbly, donated worm farm, our flower beds gave years of enjoyment to local fisher folk, the concrete laundry tub has a new life as a herb garden. The garden has welcomed many volunteers and community to connect with nature and each other.

Status: Published

Rows of raised garden beds full of varieties of leafy greens

Ruby’s garden

Wyong

I grew up in a town located in central area of China. Growing food for my kitchen initially hadn’t been my focus while I was residing in China. I however always have had a passion for gardening. I moved to Australia and took residence in a regional area. While I was excited settling into a totally different natural and social environment, I encountered a big issue for the first time in my life – the familiar daily produce market teeming with freshly harvested vegetables used to be at my door steps in Wuhan, and virtually didn’t exist here. The mud-less, squeaky clean vegetables in the supermarkets tasted nowhere near the freshness I grew up with. Ruby's garden is a diverse, edible wonderland - read more about her story....

Status: Published

close up kale, brassicas and lavender in The Bromeliad Garden

The Bromeliad Garden

Terrigal

The garden host's knowledge and talent is on show in this garden. Making good use of the mild climate, there are peppers and chillies growing through winter and a wide range of brassicas, leafy greens, peas, beans, potatoes - you name it - it's growing in this garden. Rosa loves to cook and she grows what her family wants to eat, making use of everything in the garden.  In addition to the productive raised edible garden area, there are many fruit trees throughout the property and a large chicken run. Bring your questions with you. This is a great garden to learn about growing annual vegetables.

Status: Published

aerial shot of gathering circle with espaliered fruit trees

Adagio

Matcham

Meg and Graham's home, "Adagio", is both a productive food garden and a demonstration/teaching site that they have continued to evolve over the last 28 years. Different areas have been established to help people imagine permaculture at any scale, from the sweeping gathering circle with espaliered fruit trees (two years ago, this was lawn!) to the pocket sized clothesline garden. You'll also see their "cup cake beds", developed by Meg and Graham as a plastic-free alternative to wicking beds. Their system is highly productive without the need for chemical inputs or imported manures and yet they keep no domestic animals (other than two very spoilt cats).

Status: Published

wide shot of vegetable garden at Wellacres

Wellacres

Wyong

Wellacres is a 5 acre property set on low impact flood plain, surrounded by 80 acres of natural bushland and melaluca swamp.  We've been at this property now for 15 years.  We've always grown vegetables and some fruit trees, but expanded the gardens during covid to include more native trees and other varieties, included native bush foods.  The last few years have been challenging with three consecutive floods in 3 years and in some cases parts of the garden were under over 40cm of water.  There are many challenges on this property, the flooding, the frosts, the dry times and the wildlife (rabbits, rats and bandicoots as well as flying foxes and possums).  

Status: Published

close up of a pink ruffled brassica

Mollies Farm

Dooralong

Mollies Farm is a hobby farm located in the stunning Dooralong Valley. We grow a large variety of seasonal vegetables using low till and natural / spray-free practices (non-certified Organic). We have several raised garden beds and from time to time have a surplus of veggies that we are happy to share and offer for sale or trade. The garden area is easily accessible and constantly evolving. We have some exciting projects planned for this spring and summer. Feel free to pop in, have a look around.

Status: Published

Firepit surrounded by gabion seating and vegetable gardens in corten steel rings

Copa Good Life

Copacabana

Attractive front garden and verge, featuring Corten steel and stone edge raised beds producing vegetables, herbs and beneficial plantings. The area includes clever gabion walled seating around a firepit and a protected outside eating area. Great example of a garden growing despite the elements, particularly salt and wind off the ocean. The backyard includes chooks, multiple raised no dig beds plus citrus and espaliered fig. My main design plan has been to follow the sun, have no lawn maintenance and to use no-dig raised beds. I have chook runs in the shaded areas and am gradually adding to the food forest in that area with shade tolerant plants. I recently installed compost bays and bins to reduce the need for bringing in compost from external sources. The back garden is still a work in progress but its producing well.

Status: Published

Mark Snell’s front yard vegies

Woy Woy

In a street of front yard deserts, Mark has created his own front yard vegetable oasis in just 18 months. However, the lead-up to this has taken 20 years of failed attempts. The Peninsula's sandplain soil is naturally dry and hydrophobic. When water does get into the soil, it drains away quickly. In a garden with substantial shade trees, the tree roots soon seek out the water and the nourishment and take over the garden beds. With the shade, a backyard vegie garden simply did not work. Even in the sunlight, what is not taken away by the trees attracts the weeds: pennywort, commelina and grasses, which soon out-compete any vegetables. The solution has been raised garden beds in the full sun of the front yard, built using a combination of wicking bed and Hügel Kultur principles.

Status: Published

Empire Bay Public School Bush Tucker Garden sign

Empire Bay Public School

Empire Bay

Part of sustainability at EBPS is the kitchen-garden program. There are raised gardens beds for every classroom allowing children to grow, maintain, and harvest vegetables and then cook with their produce. We are very excited about our newly planted Bush Tucker Garden. With the help of our parent community, we have designed and built a beautiful bush-like space using 100% native Australian plants. The garden is in a central location for all to use and admire. Children are learning about sustainability when we look at Aboriginal traditional practices. We discuss native plants and why they are more sustainable and have been used by Aboriginal peoples for many different purposes and for thousands of years.

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