Community Gardening
Mosman Community Gardeners is a lively and welcoming community group which runs a food garden in Mosman. We garden together in shared beds each Wednesday and Sunday afternoons and divide up the harvest of the day between us.
- Winter time gardening: 2-4pm
- Summer time (DST): 3-5pm
Mackie Lane garden is located behind Honeysuckle Nursery on Military Road. The garden was developed in 2011 on land belonging to, and in agreement with Ausgrid, transforming a bare patch of industrial wasteland into a fertile oasis of nutritious fruits, vegetables and flowers.
Our objectives are to:
- Demonstrate practical solutions to growing food in a suburban location, in particular organic methods where plants are cultivated without the use of chemicals
- Demonstrate, promote, and advocate for environmental sustainability through growing food locally
- Provide the means for people who have limited outdoor space or no garden in which to grow food
- Create a sociable meeting place for the whole community regardless of gardening experience, age, gender, sexuality, and culture
- Promote waste minimisation, including composting, water usage techniques and solar energy generation that can be used by people in their own homes.
Contact
Phone: Roger Hartley (President) 0419 500 318
Email: mosmancommunitygardeners@gmail.com
Website: Mosman Community Gardeners
Street Verges, Nature Strips and Unmade Roads
Residents can apply to garden on street verges and underutilised unmade road reserves.
Applications are reviewed considering potential impacts on pedestrian and traffic movements, neighbouring residents and other users. Successful applicants are responsible for maintenance and establishment costs.
To assist residents thinking about planting a verge garden, Council is offering a garden design consultation and free plants. Residents are urged to use local native plant species to ensure greater plant survival and to maximise benefit for local native fauna.
Residents do not need to own a freestanding home to apply - owners within strata complexes and tenants can also apply for a verge garden.
To find out more call 9978 4267 or submit your application using the online form below.