A Guide to setting up a Community Garden

Practical advice on how to set up a community garden developed by the Community Gardens Network - Russ Grayson and Fiona Campbell

Like to grow things?

Want to set up a community garden?

Not sure where to start?

The Community Gardens Network have developed a checklist of things you need to decide when setting up a community garden.

The checklist is a practical series of questions to help you plan and manage a garden.

Once you have answered all the questions on the checklist you can get more information about how to start a community garden.

This article focuses on the process of establishing your garden such as:

• recruiting interested people
• finding suitable and available land
• learning from others by checking out what other groups do and how they handle issues
• planning the garden
• getting specialist advice
• budgeting for start-up and ongoing expenses
• building the garden

Follow this link for Planning and Starting your Community Garden (opens in a new browser window)

For further information

Contact	:	Fiona Campbell, Russ Grayson, Australian Community Gardens Network
Address	:	PO Box 446, Kogarah, NSW 2217
Phone	:	02 9588 6931
Email	:	info@pacific-edge.info