Community garden collective · inner Melbourne
Grow food.Grow neighbours.
Shared beds, a seed library and a working bee most Saturdays, on a quiet block that used to be a car park. Come for the tomatoes. Stay for the people.
- Broad beans
- Silverbeet
- Calendula
- Garlic
- Borage
- Pumpkins
- Coriander
- Sunflowers
- Climbing beans
- Rainbow chard
How it works
Three ways in
Most people start with one and end up doing all three.
What’s on
Next on the calendar
Example dates for this concept. Open any of them to try the demo RSVP.
Working beeSpots open (demo status)
Saturday working bee
Three hours of jobs, tea at half time and lunch if the beds allow.
Harvest and shareJust drop in (demo status)
Spring seedling swap
Bring spare seedlings, take home something new.
Working beeA few spots left (demo status)
Saturday working bee
Three hours of jobs, tea at half time and lunch if the beds allow.
WorkshopSpots open (demo status)
Compost basics
What goes in, what stays out, and how to tell when it’s ready.
Around the garden
A season in the commons
Beds, bays, trays and one very long table.
Stories
Fresh from the stories pile
Why we leave a messy corner for the bees
Tidiness is overrated, at least in one corner of the garden.
Silverbeet three ways
The plant that never stops, and what to do about it.
A spring sowing list for small beds
What to sow in September and October if you only have one bed.
Join in
Two ways to help
Where the two overlap is where the garden happens.
This site
By the numbers (the honest kind)
- 15plots on the garden map
- 7programs listed
- 27upcoming dates on the calendar
- 16crops in the sowing guide
Counted live from this demo site’s own content. These are not real-world figures.