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The Central Coast Edible Garden Trail will take place over the weekend of 19 + 20 November 2022.
The Central Coast Edible Garden Trail is a self-guided weekend event where ticket holders will have access to a diverse range of productive private and community gardens on the NSW Central Coast.
The Edible Garden Trail celebrates the many ways permaculture gardeners on the Central Coast are creating food security, building personal and community resilience, regenerating soils and converting waste into precious resources – all while enjoying the health benefits of home grown produce and taking meaningful action towards reducing food miles and plastics use.
Our green thumb garden hosts will be showcasing their successes and sharing problem solving solutions with visitors who want to learn more.
There with be a huge variety of gardens including: backyard, acreage, courtyard, verge, community, laneway, wheelchair accessible, enclosed, balcony, market, Indigenous gardens and more!
If you’re interested to know more about permaculture many of our gardens have been designed using permaculture principles and systems.
Visitors can observe and learn about:
– Food forests
– Indigenous foods and cultural practices
– Small animal systems including deep litter, chook tractors and integrated food forests
– Water management including swales, rain gardens and ponds
– No dig raised beds and sheet mulching
– Keeping bees – Native and European
– Habitats for wildlife
– Building healthy soil through compost, worm farms, deep litter, chop and drop and green manure crops
– Mandala gardens
– Gardens for biodiversity
Everyone is welcome and our garden hosts are so excited to share their knowledge and experiences with you.
Tickets go on sale on Thursday 25 August via Humanitix.
Adult: $25
Concession: $20
Family: $56