​Chris Smyth the WA Coordinator for Community Gardens Australia was the MC for the day and he did a great job. Thank you Chris!

How to make toothpaste
Peg will show you how to make homemade, environmentally friendly, safe toothpaste. Bring a small jar to take some home!

​RSVP Cheryl: [email protected] or phone 0414 348 404

Mandurah Community Gardens is delighted to host the last Gatherers and Growers Event on Saturday 22nd October 2022.

You, as a member of Mandurah Community Gardens, are welcome to attend and join in on the discussion, hear from great speakers and enjoy some yummy food. Please plan to join in, please register via the link below in this email, as numbers are limited. It is the last in a series of events that have been held across the metro and regional community gardens in W.A.  This is a great opportunity for volunteers who are passionate about gardening focused on edible plants, community and good health, to come together, share their experience, learn new things and learn about the challenges we face for our environment, our food resources and our mental and physical health.

Event Summary

Title:           Garden Appeal.  Gathering and Growing in Kambarang
Date:           22 October
Day/ time :   Saturday 10am- 3pm
Host:            Mandurah Community Garden
Address:       Coodanup Drive (Next to Coodanup College), Mandurah
Cost:             $5, registrations via Trybooking

Community gardens are a great way to make a difference on all of these fronts in our community so it has been really beneficial to upskill and network at these events.

Join in on discussions about new ways that Community Gardens can become financially viable.  We may not solve all the world’s issues but we think you’ll leave with plenty of new ideas to work on.  It’s going to be a lot of fun!

• Helping us to do this will be Costa Georgiadis who will join us virtually to share his thoughts on the importance to the community of viable community gardens, and some great examples that he’s seen from around Australia.
• Mandurah Community Gardens President Jenny Boivin will set the scene for the day with an overview of MCG.
• We will be joined by special guest presenters including Waterwise Program Manager Winsome MacLaurin, and Dr Vicky Solah – Chair of Food Science and Nutrition at Murdoch University.
• As a group we will talk about how their presentations are relevant to community gardens and how potential partners see our collective value proposition. We can ask them how they would benefit from tapping into the power of community gardens? We can talk about who other partners may be?

Peg Davies’ Famous Morning Tea will be served from 9.45am (ready for a 10am start) and lunch will include pizza from the MCG wood-fired oven!

Registration is via Trybooking.  Updates are available through the Gathering and Growing facebook page.

For more information please contact Gathering Organiser Paul Bodlovich.