June Field Day: Smokva Community Garden
Time & Location
Sunday 18 May, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm Wickham NSW
About the Event Smokva’s community garden is a diverse group of Newcastle’s inner west residents working together in a beautiful community garden to provide social opportunities, education and to grow and distribute healthy food on a neighbourhood scale.
The current group has been there 3 years. It was dormant for 5 years and started about 17 years ago. The 1000sq. m property was a well-known established garden that was not receiving any attention. Covered in couch grass with crumbling, dry raised beds. Our devoted group has transformed the garden into a beautiful thriving urban space.
Today we've built a strong community and made a space that we are happy to meet and hang out in. We have improved the soil and eradicated a lot of weed species.
We make compost every week and we use home-made bokashi to pre-ferment the scraps. We do not have allocated beds, everyone helps, and anyone can take produce, including many families who come to visit the playground and chickens.
Schedule 10:00 Arrive and start the day with a cuppa
10:30 Talk and tour of the garden with Tom.
11.30 Workshop/ Working bee
12.30pm Break for lunch. Enjoy a wood fired pizza or bring your own lunch.
2:00pm End of activities. Please Bring Something to share for morning tea if you’d like, a picnic chair and any surplus produce, seeds or seedlings you'd like to bring for the swap & share table.
LUNCH: WOODFIRED PIZZAS
HOGS will provide pizza bases, sauce, and cheese.
Bring your own favourite toppings to add.
(When booking there will be an option to select if you are having a pizza)
You can bring an alternative lunch if you prefer.
How to book... You need to be a current (financial) member to book this event. Log into your account (top right of the website) and you'll be able to book via the members only tab or the RSVP link below. Please get in touch with us if you would like to attend but are having any issues booking the event.
