Community Planting Day and Celebration

by | 26 Oct 2018 | Event, Garden | 2 comments

When: Saturday October 27th, 2pm – 7pm Where: Armidale Aboriginal Community Garden, Narwan Village All Armidale community members and visitors are welcome to join us in the Aboriginal community garden in Armidale to help plant 400 native trees, shrubs and grasses. As...

Garden Design with Native Plants — 4 Open Gardens

by | 13 Sep 2018 | Event, Garden

Australian Plant Society Armidale and District Group invite you to a free, interesting weekend on 15-16th September Ben Walcott,  Leader of the Garden Design Study Group for the Australian Plant Society will be talking on “Garden Design with Native Plants” Date:...

AURG Maintenance Mondays

by | 23 Aug 2018 | AURG, Event, Garden

We plan at this stage for the next two Mondays (27 August and 3 September) to continue working at this same site, just upstream from Site 12 (River Oak). The work will be mainly removing woody weeds and picking up debris in preparation for our new planting planned for...

Armidale Aboriginal Community Garden

by | 18 Jul 2018 | Event, Garden, Local Food

Remembering Dark Town: Experimental History, Decolonisation and Archival Activism at Armidale Aboriginal Community Garden Presented by Dr Kate Wright  Date: Thu 19th Jul 2018 12:00pm-1:00pm Location: Oorala Lecture Theatre, UNE, Building E22 Contact: Dr Sophia Waters...

Climate Matters: Armidale Community Garden

by | 3 Jul 2018 | Garden

Six years ago a group of enthusiastic volunteers took up the challenge of turning six abandoned tennis courts into a community garden. Armidale Community Garden lies just across the creek behind the New England Regional Art Museum (NERAM), and although still very much...

Lost Plot Community Garden Port Macquarie

by | 30 Jan 2018 | Garden, Local Food

During the recent Social Developers Network workshop, I visited the Armidale community gardens and met Jo Leonie. I thought you may like to see how our community garden works here. It’s called The Lost Plot and has come a long way since starting about 4 years ago....

Armidale Farmers’ Market

by | 12 Jan 2018 | Event, Garden, Local Food

The Armidale Farmers’ Market is on first and third Sundays of the month at Curtis Park kicking off at around 8am and going through to lunch. If you are a paid up member of Sustainable Living Armidale you are welcome to sell produce at the Armidale Local Food...