Header logo highres_edited.jpg

Altona Community Gardens Inc

altonacommunitygardens@gmail.com

  • White Instagram Icon
  • facebook
  • Home

  • Get Involved

    • What is a community garden?
    • Membership
    • Benefits
  • Events

  • Documents

  • About Us

  • More

    Use tab to navigate through the menu items.

    Recent Posts

    Altona Community Garden In A Box

    Altona Community Garden In A Box

    Nature strip project, an upgrade

    Nature strip project, an upgrade

    Fruit and veggie monthly swap and social gardening

    Fruit and veggie monthly swap and social gardening

    Archive

    • October 2017
    • September 2017
    • October 2016
    • August 2016
    • July 2016
    • June 2016
    • May 2016
    • March 2016
    • February 2016
    • November 2015

    Tags

    No tags yet.
    Nature strip garden, number 2

    Nature strip garden, number 2

    At 9.30 am on a lovely sunny Sunday, 18 Altona Community Gardens members (and some non members) gathered at Kate's house in Altona. The task was to begin the transformation of her nature strip into a beautiful and productive vegetable garden and hopefully have some fun too! Chatting and fuelling up on some warm coffee and tea, the attendees milled around and we were very happy to see some past attendees as well as some new faces. Dominique did a fantastic job of welcoming
    Working with Louis Joel

    Working with Louis Joel

    Altona Community Gardens is proud to work with the Louis Joel Arts and Community Centre on the Nourish Project. This 'work for the dole' project started in November 2015 and since then the whole backyard has been transformed into an edible oasis. There are 9 timber raised garden beds: these are 'wicking beds' which saves a lot of water as there is a water reservoir under the soil where the plants grow. The water wicks up into the soil so that optimum soil moisture is maintai
    Our first garden tour

    Our first garden tour

    On the 31st January we held an Altona open garden tour, which was fantastic. Five of our members - Dy and Kerrie, Adeline, Peter, Shotaro and Mara welcomed visitors to their home for a talk and tour. The principles of permaculture were explained and we saw how and why it works for productive gardening that requires less maintenance. We discussed feeding and mulching as well as new techniques such as straw bale gardening which is great for people with poor soil. Basically str
    1
    2

    Altona Community Gardens Inc

    altonacommunitygardens@gmail.com

    2A Somers Parade, Altona VIC 3018, Australia

    • Altona community gardens instagram
    • facebook

    ©2020 by Altona Community Gardens Inc. Proudly created with Wix.com