Resources to Download
Check out these two community gardening guides packed full of tips to help you start and maintain your community garden, drawn from the experience of Australian community gardeners:
claire nettle (2010). Growing Community: Starting and nurturing community gardens. Health SA, Government of South Australia and Community and Neighbourhood Houses and Centres Association Inc: Adelaide.
Faith Thomas (2008). Getting started in community gardening. City of Sydney: Sydney.
Directory of WA Community Gardens
Getting Started in Community Gardening Diagram
Community Garden Visioning Questions
What can Community Gardens Offer Community Centres?
Funding Your Community Garden (1.07MB)
Community Gardening Success Factors: the 9Ps of growing vibrant and viable community gardens (1.40MB)
Growing Education: Community gardens building effective partnerships with education providers
For more useful resources, check out Australian City Farms and Community Gardens Network, SA Community Gardens and the other Australian and international websites on our Links page.
The following sample documents developed and used by community gardens are provided as a starting point to assist you in developing tools for managing your own garden. Documents have been selected to show a diversity of approaches; there is no one best approach and it is important that you tailor any documents to be relevant to your own gardening community. A big thank you to the gardens that have agreed to make their documents available to assist others.
Garden Guidelines and Agreements
Busselton Community Garden Membership Form and Guidelines
Piney Lakes Community Garden Guidelines
Naragebup Community Garden Agreement
West Leederville Community Garden Manual (5.53MB)
West Leederville Community Garden Sign Up
Victoria Park Community Garden Allotment Allocation Policy
Victoria Park Community Garden Code of Conduct
Registration Forms and Skills Audits
City of Subiaco Community Garden Information Survey
Naragebup Community Garden Registration Form
Victoria Park Community Garden Registration Form
Victoria Park Community Garden Application for Membership Form
Victoria Park Community Garden Allotment Application Form
Induction Tools
West Leederville Community Garden Induction
West Leederville Community Garden Induction Survey
Carss Park Community Garden Gardeners Guidebook
Garden Constitutions
Victoria Park Community Garden Rules of Association
You can also find some editable sample forms and documents at Community Gardens SA under Administration Resources.
There is a growing amount of research on the numbers and types of community gardens in Australia and on the benefits of community gardens.
To locate academic and other research publications in support of the benefits of community gardening, download the Australian City Farm and Community Garden Network's Community Gardening: An Annotated Bibliography
For a snapshot of community gardening in WA, download Profile of WA Community Gardens: 30 June 2010
