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A place for keen beans to share gardening thoughts and stay up to date with all the happenings at the Melbourne Uni Community Garden!

This is a great place to stay in touch with the Melbourne University Community Garden (located at the Parkville campus) and hear about upcoming events, activities and get some fun new ideas for gardening at home! The garden is a friendly place - come by and say hi some time!

18/03/2024

Hi folks,

For anyone who is interested in guerrilla gardening, food sovereignty, and the decommodification of healthy, organic food - there is a new collective recently formed called 'radical roots'.

They have just started a community garden in Coburg (at De Chene Reserve) and welcome anyone! If you are particularly interested in grassroots-led social movements and the intersections between food, land, power, collective liberation, and socio-ecological wellbeing - this may just be the collective for you!

Check out their instagram (Guerrilla Gardening Naarm - link below), or come along to one of their weekly working bees / hang-outs. Each Saturday morning @ 10am.

https://www.instagram.com/guerillagardening_naarm/?hl=en

21/02/2022

We have teamed up with our friends at the UMSU Environment Department for Summerfest and we will be giving away seed bombs and seed mixes.

Visit our stall at:
Southbank Campus: Linear Park 22nd Feb 11:30-2:30

Parkville Campus: South Lawn on Thursday 24th Feb 10-2 and Friday 25th Feb 11-3.

Also, we are currently looking for new volunteers. If you are interested check out our profile and our website (https://mucgarden.weebly.com) for more information, and send us an email ( [email protected] ).

08/11/2021

Just a little reminder that the 2022 MUC Garden paid co-facilitator positions are closing this Friday 🍃 Please head to our page to see the full position description if you’d like to apply!

02/11/2021

Springtime in the garden 🌸 It’s so beautiful watching everything come back to life.

28/10/2021

✨Keen to be a paid community garden co-facilitator in 2022? ✨

MUC Garden is looking for two Melbourne University students to facilitate a team of volunteer garden coordinators in 2022.
The role involves organising events, managing social media, planting, composting and chatting to fellow garden lovers over a cup of freshly picked lemon balm tea.

Follow this link to see the full position description: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aJpU-1lKsRpsPgliHy1JGqG1z9G03DW_IfyeTc3ljgw/edit?fbclid=IwAR1TmhL1nWhL8l9mYSKP5TNaUJfgDo_cu1Dy8wY3XKUi0f-7kvKMD0PC8VI

If you’d like to apply please send a short email (from your university email account) to – [email protected] – and let us know why you’d be a good fit for the role! The selection criteria is a great guide to get you started. In the email please also provide a phone number and your availability. Applications close November 12th.

Hope to hear from you soon!

The 2021 MUC Garden team 🐝

11/09/2021

Here's a glimpse of what we'll be chatting about at our upcoming apple pruning workshop! Bronte, the lovely pruner in the video, is one of the facilitators at MUC garden. In the workshop she'll run through the full-length video, explaining the basics of how and why we prune apple trees. Please come along if you're keen to learn more :)

Music: Reverie by Robert John

22/08/2021

Just a little reminder about our upcoming edible w**d workshop with ! Shout out to .daniel for the amazing illustration 💗 Full event details and zoom link via the Facebook event. Hope to see you there!

11/08/2021

Edible Weeds of Darebin Parklands 🌼

Foraging is one of my favourite things to do during lockdown. Last year I was making prickly pear juice and hawthorn berry fruit leather. This year I’ve focused more on wild edible greens. Edible w**ds are abundant, tasty and often extremely nutritious. This is a short list of the edible w**ds I spotted on my daily walk in and around Darebin Parklands. Let me know if you can spot any of these on your next walk. We’ll be hosting an edible w**ds zoom workshop in the coming weeks so please come along to that if you’d like to learn more!

*Weeds in order of appearance*

1. Cleaver: Growing amongst the grass. Feels sticky and will cling to your clothes, hence the name. Needs to be cooked or is great in a smoothie.

2. Dandelion: The leaves, flower and root are all edible and highly nutritious.

3. Wild Fennel: Great for tea or in cooking. Seeds and pollen can also be harvested.

4. Mallow: Very abundant. You’ll see this one anywhere. Use it as you would spinach. Becomes mucilaginous when cooked.

5. Oxalis or Wood Sorrel: Has a deliciously sour stem with a lemony taste. Use the leaves or the flowers in a salad! Contains oxalic acid so should be consumed in moderation. Oxalic acid is present in many foods we eat every day. Still worth doing a little research before you harvest.

6. Wild Onion Grass: Looks like grass, tastes and smells like spring onion. Is triangular in shape and has delicate white flowers. Tends to grow in wet, shady areas.

When foraging the golden rule is to never eat anything you can’t identify with 1000% certainty. If you wouldn’t feel comfortable giving it to a loved one - don’t eat it yourself! Also be mindful of where you’re foraging. Has it recently been sprayed? Is it right by a road or a potentially contaminated waterway? I wouldn’t have eaten many of the w**ds in this video for that reason! Look up ‘How to forage in Melbourne’ to make sure you’re doing it safely. Or come along to our workshop. Hope to see you soon!

The MUC Garden team 🌱

Music: Home by Julian Winter.

04/08/2021

The Amazing Versatility of bananas will kick off at 5.30pm tomorrow 5th August. This one is via zoom but we have some great footage shot in the garden. Bring all your questions about utilising the whole plant.

31/07/2021

Winter abundance. One of many wheelbarrows of Ruby Grapefruit harvested from a tree in Kew by one of our volunteers. We love citrus season. MUC Garden is a little too shady to support healthy citrus, but there are some lemons and makrut limes in a sunny spot near by. 🍊🍋 So many fabulous events coming up this semester! Stay tuned. And… us green thumbs are up-skilling on our social media use, so we will be posting more mini gardening skills tutorials this semester! 🌱
[Image Description: a silver wheelbarrow full to overflowing with Ruby grapefruit. Bright winter sun illuminates the fruit making it look golden]

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