Derwent Valley Community Garden

10/03/2026

Sadly our potraloo has been vandalised for the fourth time over the last 12 months. As a result we have decided to lock the portaloo when we are not at the garden.

This is very dissapointing and it restricts the use of the garden. The vandals damage the pump. This costs us $159 each time this has to be replaced.

We are sorry for any inconvenience this causes to every one who comes to the garden to enjoy the space.

We work very hard to make the garden a space that every one can enjoy. Sensless vandalism ruins this for every one.

18/01/2026

It was another great day yesterday at the garden.

Another free pizza event which was well attended.

Thank you to every one who attended and made the event so good.

Thank you once again to The O'Brian Adams for some great live music.

We hope to hold another event soon.

15/01/2026

Just a quick reminder about our free pizza event this Sunday 18th.

Please see attached flyer for all the details.

See you there.

28/12/2025

We will be holding another free pizza event at the Derwent Valley Community Garden.

When: Sunday 18th January
11am to 1 pm

There will be live music from O'Brian Adams.

Games and activities.
Come along and have some fun.

And dont forget lots of free woodfired pizza.

Please see attached flyer for all the information.

18/11/2025

We have a range of tomato and Berry plants available at the community garden.

These plants were kindly donated by The Agrarian Kitchen.

They are free to any one who would like to call into the garden Monday to Thursday 9 am to 2 pm.

Available are
boysenberrys
Silvan/Marion berries
Young berries
Concord grapes
Glen moy raspberries
Lloyd George raspberries
As well as several varieties of tomato plants which will need to be planted soon

13/10/2025

We will be holding a pizza day at the garden this Thursday to celebrate seniors week.

Celebrating connecting generations through food.

We will be joined by students from The Indie School who will help prepare and cook our pizzas.

Please see the attached flyer for the details

07/08/2025

Just wondering if anyone has any strawberry plant runners.
We are looking at creating a new garden bed of strawberries and would like to add to the plants we have.
Please let me know if you have any available.

24/07/2025

We have parsnips, yacon and jerusalem artichokes for sale at the garden.
These are bagged up into 1kg bags on the produce stall.

Why not make some artichoke, leek and bacon soup on these cold winter days. We have provided some recipe sheets for you to try
Yum.

Parsnips are great baked or boiled. Mash them up with potato and carrot.

Yacon is best eaten raw on its own, or in salads. You can add it to smoothies or used for juicing. It has a sweet flavour and tastes like a juicy pear.

Come down and grab a bag for $5 each.

08/06/2025

It was very sad to find that in the very early hours of Saturday morning 1am to 5 30am the garden was vandalised. A lot of our displays have been broken or taken. These are things we have worked hard to make trying to bring a little bit of fun for kids at the garden.
Our giant bee was pushed over and broken, our lady bug was removed and dumped as well of a lot of other things were pushed over or broken beyond repair.
This damages was done by kids and they were there for about 4 hours in the dark.
If any one hears any information on who might be involved we would love to hear as the police have been notified.

These are just a few photos of the damage which was done.

03/06/2025

We have plant pots to give away.
Please feel free to collect from the garden.

20/05/2025

Today is world bee day.
A time to think about how important our bees and other pollinators are to us.
Take time to appreciate all they do.

21/04/2025