The Northcote Library Food Garden is a community garden in the heart of Melbourne's inner north. The garden is managed by a group of residents for the benefit of the community. It is a productive growing space, as well as a place for gathering and for demonstrating sustainable gardening practices. Community members are invited to become involved, either as a Gardener or as a Friend of the Garden. Please register your interest by email: northcotelibraryfoodgarden@gmail.com
Monday, 30 September 2013
Spring Workshop Round Up
In the wonderful September sunshine gardeners and visitors were treated to two fabulous workshops from our garden friends and advisers, Selia Hierk and Angelo Eliades.
Seila shared his permaculture expertise with the group and helped us to plan and plant out our garden beds for Spring and Summer. As always, his advice regarding soil preparation, maximising growing space, planting seeds and seedlings and plant selection was invaluable to the community garden and perfect for applying in our own growing spaces, however small or large.
Angelo helped us to extend our knowledge about the varieties of berries and vines in the community garden and particularly how they work within the food forest ecosystem. Under his guidance the group was able to undertake some much needed maintenance of the plants and plan for future growth and fruiting.
Sunday, 1 September 2013
Spring Workshops
Join the Northcote Library Food Gardeners for community gardening workshops on Sunday 8th September. The workshops will take place during our usual monthly community gardening day and we invite you to join us for all or part of the day.
10 - 11am
Welcome, induction for visitors and new gardeners, gardening tasks for day set out
11-12.30pm
Workshop 1 - Spring Planting using Permaculture Principles
Sunday 8th September in the NLFG
10 - 11am
Welcome, induction for visitors and new gardeners, gardening tasks for day set out
11-12.30pm
Workshop 1 - Spring Planting using Permaculture Principles
Presenter - Seila Hierk
This is a hands-on workshop where Seila will take participants through his Spring planting guide, preparing garden beds for planting, companion planting, garden bed design for optimum yields and garden maintenance for Spring.
12.30-1.30pm
Shared lunch and NLFG gardeners' meeting
Shared lunch and NLFG gardeners' meeting
1.30 - 3pm
Workshop 2 - Berries and Vines in the Forest Garden
Workshop 2 - Berries and Vines in the Forest Garden
Presenter - Angelo Eliades
The NLFG features a wide variety of berry and vine plants and Angelo will show us how these plants contribute to a food forest design, which varieties to plant, as well as care and maintenance of plants for maximum fruit production.
3 - 4pm Afternoon tea and more gardening work!
RSVP via email preferable for members (free), and ESSENTIAL for Non-members (by donation): northcotelibraryfoodgarden@gmail.com
Perennial Plants Workshop - August 2013
The NLFG members and visitors enjoyed learning about the benefits and care of perennial plant varieties from Raf (formerly of Cultivating Community and Merristem nursery) on our August community gardening day.
Raf's perennial plant guide can be found here
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Perennial Plants Workshop - August 2013
The NLFG members and visitors enjoyed learning about the benefits and care of perennial plant varieties from Raf (formerly of Cultivating Community and Merristem nursery) on our August community gardening day.
Raf's perennial plant guide can be found here
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| Maintaining the perennial plants in the NLFG |
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| Learning about perennial varieties |
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| The pepino is an edible perennial that is doing well in the NLFG |
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