Community Gardens
within the City of Whittlesea
Community gardens offer a space to socialise, connect with the natural world, and of course, grow healthy and delicious food. The City of Whittlesea boasts several community gardens and offers support for anyone seeking to start a new community garden.
Explore nearby gardens
This site shows the current gardens around the City of Whittlesea area, including contact details and how you might get involved. You can view the gardens by suburb, or explore all suburbs by using the links above.
Enjoy your tour through the lovely community gardens of our city.
Epping
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Creeds Farm Living and Learning Centre Garden
2 Snugburgh Way, Epping
The garden is a communal garden where participants share both the gardening and the harvest. There are no fences, nor individual plots and there is a native food garden on site.
The aims are:
* To be a shared community garden where participants share the gardening and the harvest;
* To provide space for the community to share knowledge and enhance social connection;
* To act as a learning and demonstration centre for communal organic gardening.
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Greenbrook Triple G Community Garden
40 McFarlane Crescent, Epping
Community garden in Epping utilised for Greenbrook Community House programs including all-ability programs and VCAL schools program.
Site includes accessible vegetable beds, greenhouse and potting tables.
Other gardens on our site are a fairy garden, indigenous garden and sensory garden.
Lalor
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Lalor Community Garden
35 Duncan Road, Lalor
Working bees, monthly lunches e.g. BBQ, Pizza Fund-raising Sausage sizzle at Bunnings.
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Links Community Garden Lalor
403 Station Street, Lalor
Community garden with shared plots, fruit trees, indigenous edibles, habitat areas, produce swap table, outdoor meeting areas, community composting and worm farm facilities, and an annual sunflower patch.
Links Community Garden is on Wurundjeri land.
Mernda
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Mernda Community Garden at Carome
10 Hathfelde Boulevard, Mernda
Member-only community garden with plots leased by members plus some shared plots.
Produce swaps and working bees at the garden, onsite compost, orchard.
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Mernda Community Gardeners
2 Heals Road, Mernda
Mernda Community Gardeners is open to anyone who shares the joy of gardening together.
Our group is culturally diverse and welcomes seasoned gardeners and beginners. We all have something to share and something to learn. The beds are all shared with excess produce donated to Grow to Give emergency food relief program.
Aims are:
* Grow food together, because together is better
* Learn from each other
* Have organically grown food to share with others
Mill Park
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Mill Park Garden Club
11 Mill Park Drive, Mill Park
Volunteer with Parks Vic Plenty Gorge Park, Hawkstowe Picnic area, South Morang
South Morang
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Little Learners Village Community Garden
211M Gordons Road, South Morang
Community produce garden recently established by local early childhood centre to encourage community connection and encourage healthy eating.
Plots available.
Thomastown
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Ziebell's Farmhouse Museum and Heritage Garden
100 Gardenia Road, Thomastown
Not a community garden, but instead a heritage cottage garden dating from the 1850s, including 70 roses with the first planted in the 1860s and a small herb garden.
Looking for volunteers to help care for the garden.
Whittlesea
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Whittlesea Community Garden
55 Laurel Street, Whittlesea
Share or develop a love of gardening. Learn new things through regular workshops, rent a garden (POA), grow vegies, meet other gardeners, make new friends and catch up with old ones.
Explore All Suburbs
Use the map below to explore all of the Community Gardens within the City of Whittlesea.
- Zoom in / out using the zoom controls in the bottom right hand corner.
- Click on any numbered marker to view garden information.
Community Gardens within the City of Whittlesea
Want to start a new community garden but don't know where to begin?
Visit the City of Whittlesea website or contact sustainability.planning@whittlesea.vic.gov.au
If you would like to be added to our Community Gardening News email group, please contact sustainability.planning@whittlesea.vic.gov.au