Community Gardens

Community gardens are places where people come together to grow food and community

Growing Community Booklet Download

The Growing Community: Starting and Nurturing Community Gardens booklet is now available.
Due to the size of the booklet it will only be available for download in sections.

• Click here to download Growing Communities Booklet: Part 1
• Click here to download Growing Communities Booklet: Part 2
• Click here to download Growing Communities Booklet: Part 3
• Click here to download Growing Communities Booklet: Part 4

Growing Community: Starting and Nurturing Community Gardens

In 2003-2004 CANH was funded by the Department of Health to co-ordinate a 'Community Gardening in SA' project. One of the outcomes of this project was the 'Community Gardening in SA Resource Kit'

In 2009, the Resource Kit was fully revised and updated, and has been reprinted as 'Growing Community: Starting and Nurturing Community Gardens'

The Growing Community booklet and website content were created to encourage the establishment of new community gardens and to support the flourishing of those already growing.

The booklet and website content have been designed to be relevant to:

• groups starting a community garden
• professionals considering using community gardening as part of their programmes
• people who are asked to support community garden projects
• those sustaining and developing established community gardens

The information this booklet contains is based on questions posed by people starting community gardens and advice from experienced community gardeners, as well as research in community development, project management, and sustainable gardening.

Professionally printed copies are available from CANH for $10.00 (plus postage and handling). Contact CANH on 8371 4622 to purchase a copy

Resources

This website contains up-to-date links, resources and downloads to supplement the information in the booklet

Links and additional information

Links and additional information are available on the following topics:

• designing welcoming, inclusive and accessible gardens
• community garden visualisation
• gardening with children
• gardening with schools
• community garden rules and guidelines
• users guide to meetings
• meetings: a guide for facilitators
• grants
• training providers
• introductions, icebreakers and energisers

To download these links and additional information click on the links above

Gardening basics

Basic gardening fact sheets are available on the following topics:

• mulch
• tips to save water in your garden
• organic pest control
• organic weed control
• companion planting
• planting seedlings
• growing fruit trees
• saving seeds
• propagation
• worm farming

To download these basic gardening fact sheets please click on the links above.

Teaching resources

Teaching handouts are available on the following topics:

• meetings: a guide for facilitators
• a user's guide to meetings
• facilitation: 10 useful ideas
• facilitation: 10 point checklist
• permaculture principles for back care
• manual handling
• responsible control of pests and weeds.

To download these teaching handouts please click on the links above

Administration resources

Administration resources are available on the following topics:

They are available in both PDF and Microsoft Word format so they can be adapted for use at your garden

• site assessment checklist
  PDF Word
• plot application form
  PDF Word
• volunteer job description/wanted notice
  PDF Word
• volunteer registration/application form
  PDF Word
• community garden training needs survey
  PDF Word
• school booking form
  PDF Word

To download these administration resources please click on the links above

Community Gardens in South Australia

A3 sized SA Community Garden Directory

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