Cooroy Community Permaculture Gardens Progress Log
Cooroy Community Permaculture Gardens (CCPG) and Harvest Swap
Everything continues to flourish in the garden this month as the rain continues. The ephemeral pond at the front of the garden is noisy with frogs and has a thriving Kan Kong plant around one side. As there were some beautiful turmeric plants in pots in the greenhouse which [...]
Cooroy Community Permaculture Gardens (CCPG)
The garden is alive and flourishing thanks to the recent downpours. The mandala garden’s hidden gems are not now so hidden while life in the ephemeral frog pond is robust and noisy. Our latest working bees have been focused on containing the couch grass, pulling out nut grass (easy [...]
New Seasonal Pond at CCPG
HUGE THANKS TO OUR SEASONAL POND CREATORS!!!! The Problem ... when we do get rain (that elusive wet stuff), the Cooroy Community Permaculture Gardens has a very boggy area by the front entrance pathway, being the lowest area of the grounds. The Solution ... we originally planned to run [...]
Living Bee at Cooroy Community Permaculture Gardens
COME AND JOIN US – LIVING BEE for Wednesday 23 October Where: Cooroy Community Permaculture Gardens. 26 Emerald Street, Cooroy. Time: 9 – 11 am Task: Planting pioneer species and Subtropical vegetables into the Food Forest. We will also be naming these important foods and discussing their uses. Bring: Any number of [...]
Introducing Dale Chapman
Collaboration with Dale Chapman We are very pleased to announce an important new collaboration with Dale Chapman at the Cooroy Community Permaculture Gardens. Dale has joined the Leadership Group and is establishing our native bush tucker garden to increase awareness of the importance of native plants for medicine, food [...]
CCPG 25 August 2019
Hi All It was great to have some young energy come along to help out on Sunday. We got some of the heavy work tasks achieved which is great! All the sawdust got laid out which completed half the [...]
CCPG 11 August 2019
We got a fair bit planned and achieved at the meeting and if we can get more interest from members on Club night we can forge ahead even more successfully. Attached are the minutes. Let me know if I have missed anything.Big thanks to Tom for the sawdust delivery and [...]
June 2019 Noosa School students visit the Cooroy Community Permaculture Gardens
Smiles about growing food where everywhere. The task for this Living Bee was to randomly plant seedlings into this smiling face straw bale garden. A pattern was created for the students to copy. A beautiful bucket of worm castings was shared to tuck the small seedlings in and then [...]
A Quick Note on Mandala Revamp at Cooroy Community Permaculture Gardens
Hey!! Sometimes you just have to attend a task to reap all the rewards. A Mandala is going to give the CCPGarden visitors a lesson in how to grow herbs. Also allows us to learn who can make excellent scones for the morning tea afterwards ..... thank you Sue [...]
5th May 2019 Cooroy Community Permaculture Gardens Working Bee Report
Here is a (redacted) report by Julie Spencer: Four of us put on the gum boots to do what we could in the wet gardens and to get ready for Fusion Festival next weekend. Wayne did an awesome job cutting up the metal 44gal drums so that they could [...]