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Community Gardens & Community Groups

A Popular Refuge

Community gardens are not only fertile places for growing veggies, fruits and flowers but also, for creating new social connections and releasing the stresses of everyday life.

With many of our residents living in flats, and one of the lowest ratios of open space to residents in Melbourne, community gardens provide an important resource.

Community gardens offer plots to members to create gardens of their choice. So popular are community gardens that most have waiting lists.

 

Community gardens offer our residents

  • Healthy recreation activities
  • Opportunities for new social connections
  • Gardens appropriate to people of diverse backgrounds, skills and abilities.

The City of Port Phillip offers various community classes, such as gardening. 

St Kilda Indigenous Nursery Co-Operative (SKINC) also offers courses in indigenous gardens and bush food.

 

 

Community Garden Sites

 

There are currently four garden sites with plots available to the public. Another 2 are in the process of being designed and built and will be available to the public in the second half of 2011

The plots are on council properties and administered by community organisations

 


Fisherman's Bend Community Centre

Garden City

 

Located at the Fisherman's Bend Community Centre, corner of Dunstan Parade and Centre Avenue, Garden City is one of Port Phillip's vibrant community gardens. A small plot fee applies and limited gardening tools are available.

For further information  please contact  Port Melbourne Neighbourhood House.

Email :  admin@pmnh.org.au
Web :  http://www.pmnh.org.au/ 
Phone : 03 9645 1476
Location : Cnr Liardet and Nott Streets 
Port Melbourne, VIC, 3207

 

'Dig In'

J.L Murphy's Reserve Community Garden

Port Melbourne

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Port Phillip's second community garden is located at the west end of JLMurphy Reserve, Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne. It consists of raised, vegetable garden plots and includes wheelchair accessible facilities.

"DIG IN"  Community Garden Working Bees  are held the 1st Sunday of the month at 11.00am.

For further information  please contact  Port Melbourne Neighbourhood House.

Email:  admin@pmnh.org.au
Web:  http://www.pmnh.org.au/
Phone: 03 9645 1476
Location: Cnr Liardet and Nott Streets, Port Melbourne, VIC, 3207

 

 'Veg Out'

St Kilda Community Artist Gardens

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A St Kilda institution, Veg Out is an organic, chemical-free plot garden run entirely by volunteers. Consisting of over 140 creatively decorated garden plots, murals, mosaics and paving, plus chooks, an orchard and other shared garden spaces, it's an unusual and vibrant place, slap bang in the middle of St Kilda, where members, friends, families and community groups, plus plenty of local actors, musicians and artists, all enjoy getting their hands into the soil.

A commitment to a sense of community, conservation and organic gardening principles underpins all activities on the site. Other Veg Out endeavours include the monthly St Kilda Farmers' Market and water conservation initiatives in association with South East Water.

Veg Out Farmers' Market

Market Day is the first Saturday of every month

Where: Peanut Farm Reserve
(adjacent to Veg Out Gardens, behind Acland Street)
Chaucer Street, St Kilda

 

Fresh produce, organic vegetables, herbs, juices, cheeses, honey, wine, smoked meat and fish, free range eggs and more.
Behind Acland Street shops at the Peanut Farm Reserve, Chaucer Street, St Kilda.
Veg Out Community Gardens St Kilda Inc  

 

Email :  info@vegout.asn.au 
Web : http://www.vegout.asn.au/.
Mail : PO Box 1425, St Kilda South, Victoria, 3182, Australia
Location : Cnr Shakespeare Grove & Chaucer Street, St Kilda (behind Luna Park)

 

Additional Enquiries

For general enquiries, committee issues, rules and procedures, or to enquire about school/community group visits to Veg Out, contact 'Veg Out' secretary Judith Birch at hello@vegout.asn.au

Media and communications enquiries:
contact Liz at communications@vegout.asn.au

Plotholder enquiries, including change of address details:
contact Andrew at plotmonitor@vegout.asn.au

Farmers' Market enquiries:
contact Don at market@vegout.asn.au

 


St Kilda Community Gardens Club

Balaclava / St Kilda East

St Kilda Community Community Gardens Club has 24 veggie plots located at Railway place, close to the Balaclava train station.

Location:  2 Railway Place Balaclava 3183

Email: stkildacommunitygardens@gmail.com

 


'The Poets Garden'

Elwood

 

Elwood St. Kilda Neighbourhood Learning Centre

85-87 Tennyson Street Elwood 

Elwood St Kilda Neighbourhood Learning Centre is one step closer to getting a community garden. We had a great response from the community consultation.  Please find the design of the garden below.

 The garden is to be built in at the end of 2011.

 

View the full size concept plan 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For more information contact :

Sarah Wetherald, Coordinator Community & Health Development, City of Port Phillip 

PH : (03) 9209 6210

ASSIST (03) 9209 6777


Mary and Basil Community Garden

Albert Park

 

Mary Kehoe Community Centre

224 Danks St. Albert Park

Mary Kehoe Community Centre is one step closer to getting a community garden. We had a great response from the community consultation. Please find the design of the garden below

The garden is to be built at the end of 2011

 

View the full size concept plan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For more information contact Sarah Wetherald on 9209 6210

For more information contact

PH: (03) 9209 6210

ASSIST (03) 9209 6777 

Friends Groups

Friends of Port Melbourne Foreshore

The Friends of Port Melbourne's Foreshore is a local community group dedicated to preserving Port Melbourne's indigenous foreshore vegetation. The City of Port Phillip has various and unique Indigenous Vegetation Areas. 

The focus of the Friends' practical work is Perce White Reserve - a site of local, coastal indigenous vegetation between the boundaries of Webb Dock and Todd Road.

Friends objectives for this Reserve are:

  • To protect and enhance it
  • To promote awareness of its environmental value
  • To link it with neighbouring areas in indigenous vegetation at Westgate Park and Webb Dock East.


Working Bees


Visit our Indigenous Vegitation Area's page for  more information on working bees and volunteer opportunities

Phone:  Nick  - 0408 551 575
Web:   Friends of Port Melbourne Webpage  
Email: fopmf@mc2.vicnet.net.au 
Location: P.O. Box 560, Port Melbourne 3207

Earthcare - St Kilda

Earthcare is a community group that works closely with the City of Port Phillip to improve the local environment. One of Earthcare's main aims is to preserve and increase Indigenous Vegetation Areas across Port Phillip. Earthcare also hosts many community activities throughout the Port Phillip each year.

For further information on Indigenous vegetation areas and other information on Earthcare visit their website at  Earthcare St.Kilda

 

Join Earthcare

By becoming a member of Earthcare you have an opportunity to be part of a truly local, grass roots organisation and study local ecologies, with or without formal qualifications, while giving something to our community.

Membership includes bimonthly newsletters, participation in meetings, admission to talks by guest speakers, access to specialist project groups, participation in local plantings and insurance during activity days.

 

Membership costs

  • Individuals - $20.00
  • Families - $30.00
  • Students or concession card holders - $10.00
  • Temporary  single event - $5.00

 

Earthcare meetings

Meetings are held at the EcoCentre, corner of Blessington Street and Herbert Street, St Kilda at 7.30 pm on the last Thursday of every second month. All members are welcome to attend meetings.

Planting / Working bee days

Earthcare planting days are held on a regular basis. All members are welcome to attend.

For confirmation of the above activities please visit the Earthcare St Kilda website.

Friends of St Kilda Botanical Gardens

 

Friends of St Kilda Botanical Gardens is a community focused group, whose aim is to support and volunteer in these gardens. There is close co-operation between the Friends and the Port Phillip EcoCentre in the maintenance of the St Kilda Botanical Gardens.

Click link to view or download the St Kilda Botanical Gardens Brochure

For more information visit the St Kilda Botanical Gardens page.

 

Join Friends of St Kilda Botanical Gardens

The Friends have members-only events and public gatherings. Membership includes regular newsletters, updates on upcoming events and invitations to take part in members-only activities. Membership fees aid the well-being and development of the gardens, as well as the community around them. Through plant sales and other community events the Friends group raise funds to purchase plants stock and equipment for the gardens.


Membership Costs

  • Full $20.00
  • Concession $12.00

For more information on the Friends of the St Kilda Botanical Gardens

Phone: 03 9534 5287
Web: http://www.foskbg.org.au/
Email: foskbg@hotmail.com

St Kilda Indigenous Nursery Co-operative (SKINC)

 

The St Kilda Indigenous Nursery Co-operative (SKINC) is a non-profit organisation, providing local native plants and bushfoods to the council, residents, landscapers and community groups in the Port Phillip area. SKINC also provide landscaping services.

SKINC has a contract to supply the council with 25,000 local native plants a year, which are planted by the council's contractors.

Residents can also volunteer their time at SKINC to learn about plant propagation and help the environment. Courses are available on issues such as, bush foods and plants for the home garden.


Opening Hours

Monday through Saturday 10am - 4pm.

Location & Contact

Phone-Fax: (03) 9645 2477
Email: info@skinc.com.au
Web: http://www.skinc.com.au/
Location: 525 Williamstown Rd, Port Melbourne, 3207.

Nursery staff are on hand to offer expert advice and assist with all enquiries.

 

Friends of Westgate Park

Friends of Westgate Park look after one of the largest tracts of open space in the inner urban region.

For more information visit the Friends of Westgate Park website.

Contacts:
Naomie Sunner - 0415 941 629
George Fotheringham - (03) 9428 4820