This is a Free Event, but places are limited, so booking is essential!

Book your place by emailing the MCG Garden Coordinator Cheryl [email protected]
or phone 0414 348 404 to secure your place at the event. 

Click on the link below to get the flyer

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

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.

Things got started for Neighbour Day on the 27th March with Jenny doing the neighbourly gesture of giving vegetables to Tom. Sharing produce over the fence, gifting a potted plant, or dropping off a bunch of flowers from your garden are all random acts of kindness and ways to say thank you for being a good neighbour to people in your street.

Neighbour Day is an initiative of Relationships Australia and supported by the City of Mandurah and community groups like Mandurah Community Gardens. 
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We are spending more time at home and in our neighbourhood, so it is great to wave, smile and ask people how they are going. You never know you might appreciate the help from your neighbour one day.

The video below was created by the City of Mandurah to promote Neighbour Day. MCG President Jenny Boivin and Garden Coordinator Cheryl Ivey give some neighbourly advice on how to participate, and an invitation to get involved with your local community gardens.

​Thanks to Tom and Emma from the City of Mandurah for enlisting our help to promote and celebrate how gardening can bring neighbours together.

Christmas songs will be sung in the garden
SATURDAY 27TH NOVEMBER 2021  5:00pm - 5:35pm
Arrive 4.15pm to 4.30pm for 5pm sharp performance start
at Mandurah Community Gardens

Performed by the Musical Kite String Choir

All are welcome!.
Bring a plate of finger food to share and your own drinks and glasses.
Mosquitos are around so please come prepared!

We look forward to seeing MCG members, their families and friends at the concert.

EVENT IS FREE
BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL  
RSVP Cheryl: [email protected]
     Mobile: 0414 348 404

Mandurah Community Gardens is having a stall at the Pinjarra Garden Day on Sunday 17th October 9am to 3pm, located at the Edenvale Heritage Precinct, 1 George St in Pinjarra.