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AUSTRALIAN COMMUNITY GARDENS NETWORK CALENDAR + NEWS

Full details on the Australian Community Gardens Network website:
http://www.magna.com.au/pacedge/gardens

Information: pacedge@magna.com.au   Phone:  02 9588 6931

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COMMUNITY GARDENS CALENDAR

23 February: OPEN DAY - PUNCHBOWL COMMUNITY GARDEN... Launceston's
(Tasmania) Punchbowl community gardeners have a great day planned
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NORTHEY STREET CITY FARM WORKSHOPS - Brisbane...

- Saturday 23 February:  MAKING BASKETS FROM NATURAL FIBRES

- Saturday 2 March: COMPOSTING

- Saturday 9 March: WORM FARMING

- Saturday 16 March: CANDLE MAKING.
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April: RENDEVOUS IN CANBERRA...The Canberra Organic Gardening Society is
planning the year 2002 community gardens network get-together in the ACT
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COMMUNITY GARDEN NEWS... find more on the website

NEWS FROM NORTHEY STREET CITY FARM...

- city farm launches Brisbane's first weekly organic farmer's market

- in making links with educational and jobs training organisations, Northey
Street City Farm sets a new benchmark for community gardens in Australia

- city farmers raise funds for an aid project in Indonesia

- new project with indigenous corporation provides training in bushfood
growing and cooking


OTHER NEWS...

GARDENS GO WEST...Gardens for Western Sydney is a new organisation with a
big task - promoting community gardening in Western Sydney

COMMUNITY GARDENS IN NEW ZEALAND... the Christchurch Community Gardens
Association has created the organisational framework for the development of
community gardens in New Zealand. Community garden advocate Matt Morris
reports 

ECOLIVING TREATS WASTEWATER...Sydney's EcoLiving Centre, of which the UNSW
Community Permaculture Garden forms a part, has installed a greywater
treatment system
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ON THE WEBSITE........

FIND A COMMUNITY GARDEN...
NSW . QLD .  VIC . SA  .  WA  . NT . ACT . NEW ZEALAND

START A COMMUNITY GARDEN...
how-to + checklist

IDEAS FOR COMMUNITY GARDENS... fast fruits . roots . water crops . gardening

THE COMMUNITY GARDEN EXPERIENCE... our experience . our gardens . garden
people

ABOUT COMMUNITY GARDENS... benefits . looking back . evaluation

READING LIST ... theses + books

THE NETWORK... our purpose . the view from 1996.
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AN INVITATION...

Community gardeners, city farmers and like enterprises in the Oceania region
are welcome to:

- contribute news items, feature stories and photographs to the Australian
Community Gardens Network website.

- submit contact details for their garden for the community gardens contact
pages

- submit their website details for linking to the Australian Community
Gardens Network website.
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The AUSTRALIAN COMMUNITY GARDENS NETWORK is a community-based initiative
providing information services and advocacy for community gardens, city
farms and similar enterprises.