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Introducing worm farms creates a valuable active learning experience and provides them with the opportunity to care for the environment.
Courtney Mathew
Sep 8, 20231 min read
Free spring workshops supported by WDEA
We're excited to present a range of FREE workshops for our community to get your garden ready to roar this year with support from WDEA...
Courtney Mathew
Aug 1, 20231 min read
Visiting Euroa Arboretum
Euroa Arboretum was another winner at the 2022 Premier's Sustainability Awards. If you are anywhere around Seymour/Shepparton/Benalla...
Warrnambool Community Garden committee
Jul 28, 20231 min read
Hothouse tropical delight
When the hothouse is not needed for communal work members are welcome to raise their own seedlings or experiment with out-of-season or...
Courtney Mathew
Jul 21, 20231 min read
Top volunteering efforts from teenage groups
South West Local Learning and Employment Network (SWLLEN) run a program for students from the larger secondary schools with a...
Courtney Mathew
Jul 7, 20231 min read
Have you ever tried saltbush?
Saltbushes are halophytic (salt loving) shrubs that can help change the water table and surface soil characteristics so other plants can...
Courtney Mathew
Jun 30, 20231 min read
Celebrating the winter solstice
The solstice marks the shortest day of the year, and the longest night. It's the turn of the season, and marks the point where our days...
Courtney Mathew
Jun 23, 20231 min read
Sheoak flowering, planting and repotting
Mature sheoaks on site, mostly drooping sheoak Allocasuarina verticillata, have been flowering over the last few months. Often mistaken...
Courtney Mathew
Jun 16, 20231 min read
HUB deck renewal is underway
Last month the materials for our deck replacement arrived on site. Our site manager Dave is leading this work and several members lending...
Courtney Mathew
Jun 9, 20231 min read
Marking National Reconcilation Week 2023
Our site has a long history, and was a significant place for Peek Whurrong people. The racecourse was a wetland and would have been...
Courtney Mathew
Jun 2, 20231 min read
More the merrier May morning teas
We seem to have eaten our way through May. First was our Volunteer Week thank you morning tea on Saturday 20th May. We have a large base...
Courtney Mathew
May 30, 20231 min read
$100,000 reasons to smile
We are so grateful for today's fantastic funding announcement from Jacinta Ermacora MP confirming $100,000 for Warrnambool Community...
Courtney Mathew
May 23, 20231 min read
Bees get tucked in for winter
Our bees play an important role in the garden so we make sure to take good care of them.
Courtney Mathew
May 13, 20231 min read
New deck for the HUB
We're replacing the boards on our deck
Courtney Mathew
Apr 11, 20231 min read
And then there was light!
Lights have been turned on in the quarry amphitheatre
Courtney Mathew
Apr 3, 20231 min read
We're a finalist in the 34th National Banksia Sustainability Awards
We're a finalist in the 34th National Banksia Sustainability Awards
Courtney Mathew
Feb 27, 20231 min read
Preserving excess
Making relish February 2023
Warrnambool Community Garden committee
Feb 5, 20231 min read
We're donating excess produce to Food Share
We're donating excess produce to Food Share to help those experiencing food insecurity in our community
Courtney Mathew
Jan 30, 20231 min read
Celebrating one year of the children's garden
Visit our kids garden and see the things that grow.
Courtney Mathew
Jan 20, 20231 min read
Convenors corner - wrap up of 2022
A summary of the wonderful things that happened at Warrnambool Community Garden in 2022.
Warrnambool Community Garden committee
Dec 31, 20224 min read
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