BANYULE EDIBLE GARDENS MINI TOURS
Hi all, to celebrate the season of growth and renewal, Transition Banyule offers a series of mini tours of local gardens growing edible produce.
Bookings are essential. Groups will be limited to ten people per tour, so don’t delay in booking your place. Cost per tour $5/$2, children free.
Click here to book online, or phone Mary on 9455 2581
Below are descriptions of the nine mini-tours offered so generously by local residents. Many thanks to all the hosts!
Addresses will be supplied when you have registered.
Dates:
Tour #1 East Ivanhoe Sat 2 Nov 10am – 12noon
Tour #2 Yallambie/Macleod Sat 9 Nov 10am – 12noon
Tour #3 Heidelberg Sat 9 Nov 2pm – 4pm
Tour #4 Eaglemont Sun 10 Nov 2pm – 4pm
Tour #5 Ivanhoe Sat 16 Nov 10am – 12noon
Tour #6 Rosanna/Watsonia Sat 16 Nov 2pm – 4pm
Tour #7 Montmorency Sun 17 Nov 10.30am – 12.30pm
Tour #8 Heidelberg Heights/ Ivanhoe Sun 24 Nov 2pm – 4pm
Tour #9 Heidelberg Sat 30 Nov 10am – 12noon
Details of Tours (see attached pdf for a more readable or printable format)
Tour #1 East Ivanhoe Sat 2 Nov 10am – 12noon
Marsha’s Garden:
Designed to cope with limited sunny space, large trees and possums, this garden uses the concept of ‘the magic square’, raised beds and netting.
Wilfred Garden:
An ever evolving garden at a rental property, integrating chickens, ducks, beehives, vegies and berries, and designed using permaculture principles. Take note of the fowl housing; grey water and rainwater harvesting and dispersal; greenhouse and propagation techniques.
Tour #2 Yallambie/Macleod Sat 9 Nov 10am – 12noon
Cluckingham Palace:
An ever-evolving garden with an eclectic mix of edibles and natives in a gum tree battleground, tempered by assorted chickens.
Urban Orchard, Vegetable and Herb Garden:
Thriving fruit, herb and vegetable gardens, including perennials, in front and back yards. A recently excavated 15 x 4m clay bank is being developed with permaculture principles.
Tour #3 Heidelberg Sat 9 Nov 2pm – 4pm
Ken and Jenny’s Garden:
This recently established fruit and vegie garden includes a number of large raised beds and a variety of fruit trees; garden pond; compost bins; chicken yard and run. It illustrates what can be done in six months using the wonderful VEG (Very Edible Garden) service.
Robert and Mary’s Garden:
Entire back lawn replaced by a flourishing vegie garden and orchard designed using permaculture principles. Front garden filled with dry tolerant indigenous, ornamental and productive plants, and a demonstration aquaponics system. Look out for the asparagus bed, the bananas in a greenhouse and the avocados.
Tour #4 Eaglemont Sun 10 Nov 2pm – 4pm
Casa’s Garden:
This aesthetically designed food garden includes a courtyard containing a mix of edible and ornamental plants, including a large variety of herbs; olive; pomegranate; grapes; bay tree; and an orange in a tub.
Mick’s Forest:
Tanks, chooks, beehive and greenhouse are located beneath giant eucalypts, she-oaks, ironbarks, tea-tree and an ancient cedar. The garden understory is planted with hardy shade and dry-tolerant plants and shrubs. Beyond the trees is a vegie patch in three knee-high redgum boxes sporting kale, pink-eye spuds, rocket and broadbeans. Extensive composting processes use chooks in one place and Berkeley aeration method in another. Artistically graffitied water tanks are filled by an underground sump and dwarfed by giant clumping bamboo.
Tour #5 Ivanhoe Sat 16 Nov 10am – 12noon
Parsley, Sage and Rosemary’s Garden:
A novice gardener learning by trial and error - with the challenge of a young dog - has established a traditional backyard vegie garden in a sunny location. Raised beds make use of companion planting and herbs interspersed with vegies. Look out for the asparagus and for the chook run. Each garden bed (including ornamental beds) has its own compost bin.
John’s Vegie Patch:
This recently created productive vegie garden alongside an established oak tree, with chooks, fruit trees and a home-made greenhouse, illustrates how to grow vegies in an established garden with large trees.
Tour #6 Rosanna/Watsonia Sat 16 Nov 2pm – 4pm
Foxy’s Garden:
This aesthetically designed front garden with raised beds for vegies, a herb garden and enclosed orchard with chooks roaming beneath the trees, demonstrates that vegie gardens don't have to be confined to the back yard.
Ian and Heidi’s Garden:
This flourishing mixed orchard (front and back: fruit, nuts, berries and vines) and vegie garden has been developed over the past few years. Using permaculture principles, it replaces an ornamental garden with one where there’s always something fresh to eat. Features include multi-grafted fruit trees, some uncommon varieties, simple berry propagation and bananas.
Tour #7 Montmorency Sun 17 Nov 10.30am – 12.30pm
Charlee & Lennon’s garden:
A garden designed to connect kids with food and nature. A trampoline, grass and sand play included alongside water tanks. Recently designed and completed by Ryan Young of the Monty Community Group.
Family garden reinvented:
A new orchard and vegie plots make for a productive garden with mulch pits, irrigation and companion planting, set in an established and rambling family garden that was once an ornamental Edna Walling style showpiece. Look out for the 40-year-old macadamia tree that was planted by the current owner as a teenager. Designed by Mark Rigney of the Monty Community Group.
Tour #8 Heidelberg Heights/ Ivanhoe Sun 24 Nov 2pm – 4pm
Susan and Mario’s Garden:
This long-established fruit and vegie garden, with chooks, and a variety of fruit trees in the ornamental part of the garden, illustrates how to maintain soil fertility over a long period.
Angie’s Garden:
This is a well-established ornamental garden moving to a blend of edible and ornamental, incorporating dwarf fruit trees, a midget olive, citrus in pots, vegies in raised garden beds and wicking beds, maintained with drip irrigation and crop rotation. Composting makes use of two tumblers and two standing bins. Note the use of vertical space through use of espaliered fruit trees. An aquaponics system adds versatility and a chicken coop is being built.
Tour #9 Heidelberg Sat 30 Nov 10am – 12noon
Ume’s Garden:
This garden, a contemporary and creative use of a small backyard developed over ten years, has been part of Australia’s Open Garden Scheme. It incorporates raised garden beds, chooks, bees, grapevines on a pergola, dry stone wall, water tanks and compost.
Roland and Annabel’s Garden:
This recently established small productive garden sits within an extensive indigenous garden. Several round corrugated iron vegie beds contain seasonal produce and a selection of citrus trees and dwarf stone fruits. Other points of interest are the edible native plants and a frog pond with watercress.
Click here to book online, or phone Mary on 9455 2581
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Transition Banyule
[email protected]
Hi all, to celebrate the season of growth and renewal, Transition Banyule offers a series of mini tours of local gardens growing edible produce.
Bookings are essential. Groups will be limited to ten people per tour, so don’t delay in booking your place. Cost per tour $5/$2, children free.
Click here to book online, or phone Mary on 9455 2581
Below are descriptions of the nine mini-tours offered so generously by local residents. Many thanks to all the hosts!
Addresses will be supplied when you have registered.
Dates:
Tour #1 East Ivanhoe Sat 2 Nov 10am – 12noon
Tour #2 Yallambie/Macleod Sat 9 Nov 10am – 12noon
Tour #3 Heidelberg Sat 9 Nov 2pm – 4pm
Tour #4 Eaglemont Sun 10 Nov 2pm – 4pm
Tour #5 Ivanhoe Sat 16 Nov 10am – 12noon
Tour #6 Rosanna/Watsonia Sat 16 Nov 2pm – 4pm
Tour #7 Montmorency Sun 17 Nov 10.30am – 12.30pm
Tour #8 Heidelberg Heights/ Ivanhoe Sun 24 Nov 2pm – 4pm
Tour #9 Heidelberg Sat 30 Nov 10am – 12noon
Details of Tours (see attached pdf for a more readable or printable format)
Tour #1 East Ivanhoe Sat 2 Nov 10am – 12noon
Marsha’s Garden:
Designed to cope with limited sunny space, large trees and possums, this garden uses the concept of ‘the magic square’, raised beds and netting.
Wilfred Garden:
An ever evolving garden at a rental property, integrating chickens, ducks, beehives, vegies and berries, and designed using permaculture principles. Take note of the fowl housing; grey water and rainwater harvesting and dispersal; greenhouse and propagation techniques.
Tour #2 Yallambie/Macleod Sat 9 Nov 10am – 12noon
Cluckingham Palace:
An ever-evolving garden with an eclectic mix of edibles and natives in a gum tree battleground, tempered by assorted chickens.
Urban Orchard, Vegetable and Herb Garden:
Thriving fruit, herb and vegetable gardens, including perennials, in front and back yards. A recently excavated 15 x 4m clay bank is being developed with permaculture principles.
Tour #3 Heidelberg Sat 9 Nov 2pm – 4pm
Ken and Jenny’s Garden:
This recently established fruit and vegie garden includes a number of large raised beds and a variety of fruit trees; garden pond; compost bins; chicken yard and run. It illustrates what can be done in six months using the wonderful VEG (Very Edible Garden) service.
Robert and Mary’s Garden:
Entire back lawn replaced by a flourishing vegie garden and orchard designed using permaculture principles. Front garden filled with dry tolerant indigenous, ornamental and productive plants, and a demonstration aquaponics system. Look out for the asparagus bed, the bananas in a greenhouse and the avocados.
Tour #4 Eaglemont Sun 10 Nov 2pm – 4pm
Casa’s Garden:
This aesthetically designed food garden includes a courtyard containing a mix of edible and ornamental plants, including a large variety of herbs; olive; pomegranate; grapes; bay tree; and an orange in a tub.
Mick’s Forest:
Tanks, chooks, beehive and greenhouse are located beneath giant eucalypts, she-oaks, ironbarks, tea-tree and an ancient cedar. The garden understory is planted with hardy shade and dry-tolerant plants and shrubs. Beyond the trees is a vegie patch in three knee-high redgum boxes sporting kale, pink-eye spuds, rocket and broadbeans. Extensive composting processes use chooks in one place and Berkeley aeration method in another. Artistically graffitied water tanks are filled by an underground sump and dwarfed by giant clumping bamboo.
Tour #5 Ivanhoe Sat 16 Nov 10am – 12noon
Parsley, Sage and Rosemary’s Garden:
A novice gardener learning by trial and error - with the challenge of a young dog - has established a traditional backyard vegie garden in a sunny location. Raised beds make use of companion planting and herbs interspersed with vegies. Look out for the asparagus and for the chook run. Each garden bed (including ornamental beds) has its own compost bin.
John’s Vegie Patch:
This recently created productive vegie garden alongside an established oak tree, with chooks, fruit trees and a home-made greenhouse, illustrates how to grow vegies in an established garden with large trees.
Tour #6 Rosanna/Watsonia Sat 16 Nov 2pm – 4pm
Foxy’s Garden:
This aesthetically designed front garden with raised beds for vegies, a herb garden and enclosed orchard with chooks roaming beneath the trees, demonstrates that vegie gardens don't have to be confined to the back yard.
Ian and Heidi’s Garden:
This flourishing mixed orchard (front and back: fruit, nuts, berries and vines) and vegie garden has been developed over the past few years. Using permaculture principles, it replaces an ornamental garden with one where there’s always something fresh to eat. Features include multi-grafted fruit trees, some uncommon varieties, simple berry propagation and bananas.
Tour #7 Montmorency Sun 17 Nov 10.30am – 12.30pm
Charlee & Lennon’s garden:
A garden designed to connect kids with food and nature. A trampoline, grass and sand play included alongside water tanks. Recently designed and completed by Ryan Young of the Monty Community Group.
Family garden reinvented:
A new orchard and vegie plots make for a productive garden with mulch pits, irrigation and companion planting, set in an established and rambling family garden that was once an ornamental Edna Walling style showpiece. Look out for the 40-year-old macadamia tree that was planted by the current owner as a teenager. Designed by Mark Rigney of the Monty Community Group.
Tour #8 Heidelberg Heights/ Ivanhoe Sun 24 Nov 2pm – 4pm
Susan and Mario’s Garden:
This long-established fruit and vegie garden, with chooks, and a variety of fruit trees in the ornamental part of the garden, illustrates how to maintain soil fertility over a long period.
Angie’s Garden:
This is a well-established ornamental garden moving to a blend of edible and ornamental, incorporating dwarf fruit trees, a midget olive, citrus in pots, vegies in raised garden beds and wicking beds, maintained with drip irrigation and crop rotation. Composting makes use of two tumblers and two standing bins. Note the use of vertical space through use of espaliered fruit trees. An aquaponics system adds versatility and a chicken coop is being built.
Tour #9 Heidelberg Sat 30 Nov 10am – 12noon
Ume’s Garden:
This garden, a contemporary and creative use of a small backyard developed over ten years, has been part of Australia’s Open Garden Scheme. It incorporates raised garden beds, chooks, bees, grapevines on a pergola, dry stone wall, water tanks and compost.
Roland and Annabel’s Garden:
This recently established small productive garden sits within an extensive indigenous garden. Several round corrugated iron vegie beds contain seasonal produce and a selection of citrus trees and dwarf stone fruits. Other points of interest are the edible native plants and a frog pond with watercress.
Click here to book online, or phone Mary on 9455 2581
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Transition Banyule
[email protected]
