Community Garden Locations
- Alexandria Park Community Garden
- Angel Steet Permaculture Garden
- Bourke Street Park Community Garden
- Charlie's Garden
- Cook Community Garden
- Glebe Community Garden
- Greg Hewish Memorial Garden
- James Street Reserve Community Garden
- Newtown Community Garden
- Marton Community Garden
- Poet’s Corner Community Garden
- The Luncheon Club Eden Garden
- Solander Community Garden
- Ultimo Community Garden
- Woolloomooloo Community Garden
Street Verge Community Gardens
Other Sites In The City Of Sydney
- St Michael‘s Garden
- Foster Street Edible Gardens
- Asylum Seekers Permaculture Garden
- First Fleet Garden
Community gardens
Alexandria Park Community Garden
Alexandria Park Community School & Community Centre
Corner Buckland Street and Park Road
Alexandria NSW 2015
Tel: 02 9319 3207
The community garden is located in the grounds of the community centre as well as at the end of the nearby football field. It has both shared garden areas and plots for individuals. There is an annual Permablitz community construction day. Installations include raised gardens for vegetables and herbs, fruit trees, compost production and a small aquaponic demonstration system.
In May 2011 a long-nosed bandicoot, a nocturnal mammal rare in Sydney, was photographed by the National parks and Wildlife Service after its presence was noticed by community gardeners.
For more information visit: http://www.thebesttime.net/apcc/CommunityGarden.asp
Angel Steet Permaculture Garden
Angel Steet Permaculture Garden
Corner Angel and Harold streets
Newtown NSW 2042
(on land belonging to the high school)
Sunday 9:30am - 11:30 am
A one hectare shared communal garden consisting mainly of trees with edible fruit and nuts or producing other useful materials, with a small area for vegetable cultivation.
The garden is open every Sunday from 11am to 1pm except in summer when it opens between 10 am - 12 pm. Members have access during daylight hours seven days a week.
For more information visit: angelstreetpg@gmail.com or
www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=109970329369
Bourke Street Park Community Garden
Bourke Street Park
Bourke Street
Woolloomooloo NSW 2011
(just northwards of the Cathedral Street intersection)
Located on NSW government land managed by the City of Sydney, the garden started in late 2011 and is used by people living in Woolloomooloo, by local social agencies, TAFE Outreach and the Royal Botanic Gardens Trust Community Greening Program.
This is Woolloomooloo’s second garden, the other located in Sydney Place on Dowling Street (see below).
Garden in formation.
For more information email: rgrayson@cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au
Charlie's Garden
Charles Kernan Reserve
Abercrombie Street,
Darlington NSW 2008
Located on City of Sydney land and opened in late 2010, Charlie’s is a small garden where food is grown in raised, recycled brick garden beds and is shared among gardeners. There is composting, including food wastes from a nearby cafe, and a number of fruit trees and shrubs.
For more information: charliesfoodgarden.com.au or
Email:Info@charliesfoodgarden.com.au
Cook Community Garden
Waterloo Estate
cnr of Raglan and Pitt streets
Waterloo NSW 2017
Occupying social housing land, the community garden produces vegetables and herbs in plots for individual gardeners and households and produces compost as fertiliser. Gardeners must be tenants of Housing NSW.
For more information:
Georgina Clark
Tel: 02 9245 1841
Email: Georgina.clark@unsw.edu.au
Glebe Community Garden
Glebe Community Garden
Corner of Derwent Lane and St Johns Road
Glebe NSW 2037
The garden is a community venture on land owned by the Anglican Church. Open to the public and community managed, there are individual plots, shared gardening areas and a composting facility.
For more information: www.glebecommunitygardens.org.au or Email: info@glebecommunitygardens.org.au
Greg Hewish Memorial Garden
Greg Hewish Memorial Garden
Corner of Ogden Lane and Marriott Street
Redfern NSW 2016
(In the small park on the Cnr Ogden Lane and Marriott Street)
A community garden of 12 plots in raised, brick garden beds producing vegetables and culinary herbs. The garden features fruit trees, composting facilities and rainwater tank on church land.
For more information:
Convenor – 02 9698 1620
James Street Reserve Community Garden
James Street Reserve
Corner of James Street and Young Lane
Redern NSW 2016
Occupying half of a pocket park on City of Sydney land, the community garden reclaimed poorly used space for local community use. A small grant was obtained from the City of Sydney and gardeners designed and built the community garden themselves. Lord Mayor, Clover Moore, opened the garden in late 2010.
The garden consists of six large, circular, galvanised iron planters and a number of concrete pipe sections with mosaic art work done by the gardeners. A couple of the pipe sections grow vegetables for passers-by to glean from. Fruit trees include olives, banana, coffee and citrus. Composting is carried out in domestic-type bins.
For more information: jsrcg.blogspot.com or
Email: jsrcommunitygarden@gmail.com
Newtown Community Garden
Newtown Community Garden
Corner of Longdown and Stephen streets
Newtown NSW 2042
(In the grounds of the Carter Evans Day Centre)
A compact community garden on City of Sydney land, it consists of small plots and shared gardening areas, raised garden beds of wooden sleepers, a pond, rainwater tank and composting facilities.
Gardeners meet Wednesday mornings at 10.00am when there is often a guest speaker and morning tea.
For more information:
Garden Coordinator: ferrie@bigpond.com
Marton Community Garden
Waterloo Estate
Raglan Street
Waterloo NSW 2017
Occupying social housing land, the community garden produces vegetables and herds in plots for individual gardeners and households and produces compost as fertiliser. Gardeners must be tenants of Housing NSW.
For more information:
Georgina Clark
Tel: 02 9245 1841
Email: Georgina.clark@unsw.edu.au
Poet's Corner Community Garden
Poet's Corner Community Garden
Moorehead Street
Redfern NSW 2016
A community garden started in 2008 on Housing NSW land. Installations include raised garden beds, a pergola and composting. Gardeners must be tenants of Housing NSW.
For more information:
Georgina Clark
Tel: 02 9245 1841
Email: Georgina.clark@unsw.edu.au
Solander Community Garden
Solander Community Garden
Raglan Street
Waterloo NSW 2017
Occupying social housing land, the community garden includes raised garden beds and composting. Gardeners must be tenants of Housing NSW.
For more information:
Georgina Clark
Tel: 02 9245 1841
Email: Georgina.clark@unsw.edu.au
The Luncheon Club Eden Garden
The Luncheon Club Eden Garden
56A Raglan Street
Waterloo NSW 2017
Started as the Waterloo Community Garden in 1991 by a community worker associated with the church, the garden is used primarily for horticultural therapy and includes vegetable production, chickens and composting. With Angel Street Permaculture Garden, this is one of Sydney’s older community gardens.
For more information, email: rgrayson@cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au
Ultimo Community Garden
Ultimo Community Garden
McKee Street Reserve
between McKee and Wattle streets
Ultimo NSW 2007
Approved by council in late 2010, the garden was awarded a City of Sydney Matching Grant to cover start-up costs. The garden team produced a management and a works plan and the garden was built by the gardeners themselves. Construction was completed by the end of June 2011.
The garden consists of parallel rows of raised garden beds and a number of compost bins. Located in a public reserve, the garden is unfenced.
For more information: www.ultimocommunitygarden.org.au or
Email: info@ultimocommunitygarden.org.au
Woolloomooloo Community Garden
Woolloomooloo Community Garden
Corner of Dowling Street and Sydney Place
Woolloomooloo NSW 2011
With both shared gardening space and plots, the community garden occupies part of a multiple-use public open space. Included are fruit trees, vegetables, herbs and composting. Water harvested from the roof of the bamboo-construction shelter is stored in a rainwater tank. Coffee grown in the community garden was roasted by a nearby coffee processor, producing what may be Woolloomooloo’s first coffee crop.
For more information:
Tel: 02 8354 1449
Street Verge Community Gardens
Arthur Street Community Verge Garden
Arthur Street Community Verge Garden
Surry Hills NSW 2010
In late 2011, the City of Sydney handed over a planter in the Arthur Street road closure to community management following a request from local residents who have now established vegetables and other plants in it. The conversion to community management was enabled under the City’s Community Garden Policy as a street verge community garden.
Although the planter is small it forms a focus for local community activity for participants in the project.
For more information - Email: ross.hetty@bigpond.com
Sustainable Chippendale Street Verge Community Gardens
On street verges along Myrtle Street and adjacent streets
Chippendale NSW 2008
Assisted by the City of Sydney through the Sustainable Streets-Sustainable Communities Demonstration Project, the City’s Community Garden Policy and the City’s Waste Projects Coordinator, the street verge gardens were initiated by local people and are supplied with compost from the adjacent community composting bins.
Citrus, avocado, pawpaw and other fruit trees as well as fruiting, edible shrubs and vegetables, herbs, native and exotic plants have been planted between established street trees. The gardens are irrigated by rainwater runoff from the roofs of adjacent houses.
For more information
Website: http://www.sustainablechippendale.com/ or
Website: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sustainable-Chippendale/160258470696388
Contacts
Community composting in Chippendale:
Sarah van Erp
Email: sverp@cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au
Community verge gardens:
Russ Grayson
Email: rgrayson@cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au
Other Sites In The City Of Sydney
St Michael's Garden
St Michael’s Church
Corner Albion and Flinders streets
Surry Hills NSW 2010
A small garden started as an arts project and situated in the grounds of St Michaels Church. Maintained by a small group, the garden consists of a number of fruit and nut trees, shrubs and groundcovers.
For more information, email: rgrayson@cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au
Foster Street Edible Gardens
A temporary installation currently in planning
Foster Street
Surry Hills NSW 2010
A temporary arts and educational project to showcase Foster Street as a public space by creating a temporary verge garden installation that will enable community use and engagement. The project would extend the footpath and install seating and concrete planters with edible plants. Planting and harvesting would be carried out by volunteers and workshops would teach participants about planting, plant care, harvesting and the preparation of edible plants.
The project is planned to be a temporary installation, and is presently at the development application stage.
For more information, email: rgrayson@cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au
Asylum Seekers Permaculture Garden
Premises of the Asylum Seeker Centre
Surry Hills NSW 2010
Established in 2008 through a grant from the City of Sydney, the garden grows fruit and vegetables, has a hive of native bees and teaches asylum seekers the principles of permaculture design. In 2010, an additional grant from the City of Sydney enabled the establishment of a bush tucker garden in the front yard. The next phase of the project, called Permaculture for the People, will connect asylum seekers with community organisations and initiatives.
The small garden provides opportunities for socialisation. Participants meet weekly on Tuesday afternoons.
For more information, email: perini.jessica@gmail.com
First Fleet Garden
Royal Botanic Gardens
Mrs Macquaries Road
Sydney NSW 2000
(close to herbarium and administrative building off Lady Macquaries Road)
A garden exhibiting many of the food crops brought by the first fleet of colonists to Australia in 1788. Included are grains, vegetables, citrus, coffee and figs.
Opposite is a garden exhibiting the landscape and plant types the colonists found when they settled at Sydney Cove, many of which were used by Aborigines for food and materials.
Last Updated: Tuesday 21 February, 2012
