ABOUT US
Membership
Goulburn Community Garden operates as an incorporated organisation. Annual membership of the Garden is $15 beginning on 1 July each year.
Members are eligible, but not obliged, to rent a garden bed for $40 per annum beginning on 1 July each year.
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Supporting each other in the Garden
Life gets in the way sometimes. For all of us. So if you’re going away or unable to tend your garden bed for whatever reason, just let us know. There are members who are happy to keep an eye on your bed, water and do whatever else is required until you get back. And if we haven’t seen you for a while we’ll give you a call, just to see if you’re OK. We aim to be a supportive garden community.
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Aims and Objectives
1) To build a sustainable, supportive community of gardeners and custodians for the local environment.
2) Promote the growing of organic, sustainable foods and plants by education and by practical example in the garden.
3) Promote Permaculture as a sustainable system of growing food.
4) Promote the conservation of nature, the protection of the environment and the attainment of an ecologically sustainable society.
Goulburn Community Garden Child Safe Policy
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Children and young people are warmly welcome in the Goulburn Community Garden. We are delighted to have children in the garden where they can experience nature and community.
We do ask that children are the direct responsibility of the parent or guardian who brings them to the Garden. We also request that no child be left in the garden without the responsible parent or guardian or an adult so designated.
Thank you for helping us keep children safe in the Garden.
Formation and History
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Goulburn Community Garden, 2010 – 2018:
by David Bollen
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Australian gardens have traditionally been one of two kinds, private and public. The first decade of the new millennium saw the advent of a third kind, the community garden. As the name suggests, a garden on these lines would be a co-operative venture of local people, some of whom might not otherwise have the opportunity to garden, with a view to knowledge sharing and community building.
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Nostalgia had a part – memories of the backyard gardens of our childhood, the fun of planting and harvesting veggies and fruit, the satisfaction of ‘eating one’s own’. But there was also concern about the present – the disconnect between our immediate environment and food, part of a wider loss of contact with nature, and dependence on the petro-economy to supply food from distant places. Was this sustainable? What price are we paying for ‘everything all-year-round? What had we lost in the process? The community garden offered a chance to regain control, to recover something that had bonded communities through the ages. The time was ripe for the third type of garden. Read More
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10th Anniversary
We celebrated 10 happy years of community gardening in Goulburn with a tree planting and morning tea on Friday 23 June 2023. A bay tree was a gift from Anne Bollan and was planted by Councillor Daniel Strickland and community gardener, Barbara Lewis.