We are committed to community connectedness & sustainability
The Footscray Community Garden & Learning Place is focused on developing co-operation between communities, building up community knowledge, and educating in sustainable and equitable practices that can improve liveability.
A communal enterprise, based on cooperative labour & collectivist principles of distribution.
- Collective ownership
- Co-operative work
- Fair & equitable distribution
- Sustainable practices
- Community empowerment & solidarity
What’s going on
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The Open Session program dates this Winter are: Saturday 11 July Sunday 9 August Saturday 5 September On each of these days from 10am – 12pm, we would love you to come check out the garden at 30A Pickett Street, and see what we do: Get in contact if you have any questions, or simply…
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The Open Session program dates for the rest of Autumn are: Sunday 19 April, Saturday 16 May, Sunday 14 June. We would love you to come check out the garden at 30A Pickett Street, and see what we do!
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Background The Footscray Community Garden & Learning Place (FCGLP) is a product of a joint initiative and West Gate Neighbourhood Fund grant application by Borderlands Co-operative and St John’s Church. The FCGLP was founded as a collective enterprise, based on cooperative labour and collectivist principles of distribution. The Garden has no individual plots, but rather…
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The Footscray Community Garden & Learning Place was started with a simple idea: a commitment to community connectedness & sustainability: we hoped to build-up community knowledge and skills in sustainable and equitable practices that can improve liveability. Since August last year, a community committed to these ideals has collectively turned a rather neglected-looking space first…
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Sat, 15 Mar, 10:30am – 12pm @ Footscray Community Garden & Learning Place Run by My Smart Garden (Maribyrnong City Council) Join Chloe Thomson, horticulturist, presenter, YouTuber and regular contributor to the Gardening Australia magazine for a presentation on how you can grow a great garden even in a tiny space like an apartment, balcony…
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A Climate Adaptation Fair is coming to town! It will showcase all things climate adaptation through stalls, workshops, and talks. The fair will be from 10am-4pm on 8 February 2025 at Borderlands Co-op, 30A Pickett St, Footscray. This is a wheelchair accessible venue, see below for more information on accessibility. Organised by Friends of the Earth. Register here.
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Since August, when work on the Footscray Community Garden and Learning Place Project began in earnest, we have collectively turned a rather neglected-looking space into a construction site, and from there into a flourishing garden. We’ve renovated all the existing beds and converted the inherited raised beds to wicking beds – a huge undertaking that…
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Saturday November 30, 10am – 12pm There’s lots happening at the Footscray Community Garden & Learning Place. Some veggies already harvested and donated to the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre. We still have construction work to do (Greenhouse, fencing, protected structure), and lots of gardening!
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This month is a big one for the new Footscray Community Garden & Learning Place. We have working bees happening on Saturday October 12 and October 19. We are finishing-up building our wicking beds; setting up irrigation; building storage and possibly compost containers; putting in a gathering place shed; and planting! For details of working…