The Community Garden on Cambridge Street, West Leederville opened in June 2007, and has been a bigger and faster success than we dared imagine!

There are communal areas with herbs, vegetables, worm farms, compost bays and a fruit grove. Volunteers are welcome to join us to help tend these areas.

There are often workshops on topics such as mosaic tiling, making your own frog-friendly garden and permaculture gardening and design.

If you would like to rent one of our allotments, please contact us by telephone or email.

There will be activities ongoing at the site each Saturday

between 2 - 4 pm, so please drop past and lend a hand.

There is a whiteboard inside our neat and tidy shed with details on tasks in progress, so you can be helpful when it suits you! You are encouraged to bring worm- and compost- friendly food scraps with you whenever you come down. Please remember to chop them into small pieces to make them more attractive to worms and less so to wildlife.

We have a partnership with Organic Waste Solutions, who collect organic waste from local offices and companies to put in worm farms.

The details of the initial permaculture plan are available in this document: WestLeedervilleCommunityGardenProject.doc. Of course, as it is an organic process, we are only following the plan loosely.

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Purpose of community garden 

To foster a sense of community by encouraging residents to meet there and get to know each other.

To provide a safe place for families with children to meet and relax.

To encourage youth, adult and environmental education.

To provide local artists with a place to show their work.

To provide people who do not have a garden, with an opportunity to participate in gardening activities.

To encourage a healthier lifestyle by growing  fruit and vegetables according to permaculture principles.

To help develop a greener and more attractive environment

To encourage the use of ecologically sustainable practices

To foster a sense of Place and History