Story: Dr Joanne Dolley, Research Fellow, Griffith University (Canberra Organic – Summer 2020) By being an active member of a community garden, you are contributing to achieving several of the …
Growing a sense of community
Cool Cabbages
Story & Photos: Heather Campbell (Canberra Organic – Summer 2018) Last summer I had a disastrous crop of tomatoes and lost most of them to root rot despite diligently removing …
Gardening in a time of plague
Gardening in a time of plague Story and Poems: Gerry Jacobson Lockdown and isolation. Months of chocolate and TV. Can’t travel. But in Canberra there’s always somewhere to walk. And …
Calendula officinalis
Article: Elizabeth Dangerfield (Canberra Organic – Summer 2020)Photo: Harish Kumar The pot marigold, or Calendula officinalis, lights up our winters with its bright yellow and orange daisy flowers when everything …
Floriade Comes to Kambah
Story and Photos: Shirley Bolton (Canberra Organic – Summer 2020) Canberrans are all garden lovers at heart. Who doesn’t love Canberra’s Floriade program, as we have known it for many …
Is Sister Veronica COGS’ Oldest Gardener?
At 97, Sister Veronica still tends her plot at COGS Dickson Garden daily. If this beautiful article from Her Canberra (Georgia Curry) doesn’t leave you inspired, read it again!
Saving seed from summer’s bounty
Story and Photos: Thea O’Loughlin (Canberra Organic – Spring 2020) If you were lucky enough to have vines survive the recent harsh summer, then chances are pumpkin soup has been …
In Praise of Silverbeet
Story: Gerry Jacobson (Canberra Organic – Spring 2018) “Eat yer vegies!” How the ancestral voices echo. Most of us call it ‘spinach’ but it’s really ‘silverbeet’, and it’s also known …
Pumpkins Anyone?
Our first year at Betty Cornhill garden Story and Photo: Jo Kirwan (Canberra Organic – Spring 2019) Our first year at the Betty Cornhill community garden has been a very …
Growing Edamame (Soybeans)
Story and Photos: Tammy Hamers (Canberra Organic – Spring 2019) In a possible first for gardeners in the local area, I recently managed to raise edamame (soybeans) to their full …