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Laverton Community Garden inc

Locality: Laverton, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 433 085 539

Address: Bladin Street 3028 Laverton, VIC, Australia

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24.01.2022 A big thank-you to the 2018 HBCC Toyota Equipment Grant! Our 6 raised garden beds by The Little Vegie Co were delivered today. These garden plots available for new members! This marks the half way point for replacing our, long beyond use by date, raised beds created from second hand apple crates.... WHY are we needing to replace our garden beds? The original site of LCG was inside the Laverton P - 12 School and when excess school land was sold for the Jennings St school this required LCG to relocate and quickly. As the new site was smaller and covered in strappy bushes the only affordable option was to use raised garden beds from apple crates, which was the new trend at that time. As these apple crates were second hand they had already used up much of their lifespan and were not a long term option. Now these old beds are requiring replacement and we have chosen the Little Veggie Co beds as they are: - fit for purpose - have a 10 to 15 year lifestyle - able to be maintained and repaired to increase lifespan - use recycled/upcycled products - look great - allow the garden to continue functioning as plots are replaced over several years

20.01.2022 F R E E S O I L ! ! ! While winter is here we are being busy organising a few of the old raised garden beds to be replaced. As we transfer the soil into the new beds we have left over soil, so come to the garden and collect as much as you need. There is about 3 cubic metres still available.... Comment or message us to arrange for access. FREE SOIL!!!

20.01.2022 Don’t forget to join in the Community spirit!

18.01.2022 Three common reasons our gardeners come to LCG 1) Have dogs in the back yard, 2) renting and 3) there is no direct sunshine in my backyard.... Even having a wall of snowpeas will create winter shade and this link has some planting ideas.

17.01.2022 A little garden blessing after the down pour 'May your seeds grow stronger than the weeds' Especially those snow pea seeds planted last week.

17.01.2022 Save Laverton Pool! Please provide feedback of HBCC plans to close down the Laverton Pool before it's too late. click on link to find the feedback tab.

15.01.2022 Gardening soothes the soul

14.01.2022 We can't do this without you! ~ please share Tag your local #communitygardens and make sure they complete our short national survey. Every bit of data helps dev...elop our national network to act as better advocates for the community gardens movement. There are over 1000 community gardens Australia wide, and many many more gardening projects, school gardens, verge gardens, and urban farm projects. We want to hear from you all! Click the link : https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2019gardensurvey

12.01.2022 Home grow, or community garden grown, food is soo tasty and satisfying however gluts can occur. Instead of being overwhelmed by 17 eggplants you can attend one of the local fruit and veggie swaps in you area on most Saturdays or Sundays occurring monthly. Seeds, seedlings and other gardening paraphernalia can be swapped even pickled or home made items from the home grown fruit and veggies can be swapped. Laverton Community garden have seasonal swaps with our next one being a Seed Swap, in time for planting spring seedlings. Will confirm date later this month.

02.01.2022 Had a visit from Bendigo Bank this week, showing them around the site and the mid-winter greenery. as well as several of the beds their community grants have provided. Thank - you Bendigo Bank for your ongoing support.