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Habitat Gardening presentation notes
Identifying Butterflies

Conservation 

Get Involved
The Community Garden is surrounded by Significant Remnant Bushland as well as High-quality Revegetation bushland. Consider joining our "Friend of Bedford Park" volunteer team to help care for these beautiful spaces and learn more about Bushland conservation and Indigenous flora and fauna of Maroondah. 
email admin@crccinc.org.au for more information. 
If you have a local reserve consider joining your local Friend Of groups, or consider supporting the new Bedford Park Friends of Group. Details of these can be found HERE

 

 

 

If you're keen to get involved in local conservation efforts, you can also visit CRISP nursery, or contact the incredible Bushland Team for a site visit and some advice. 


Council Support Available for Native Planting
Did you know, you can book in to have a member of the Maroondah Bushland crew to visit your home to provide information on planting native gardens? Where to plant, which species will grow best, how to support native wildlife, and all you need to know to get started on your habitat oasis, no matter how big or small the space is! 
Email Derek at derek.ashton@maroondah.vic.gov.au to find out more. 

Local Indigenous Nursery
C.R.I.S.P Indigenous Nursery is your local go to place for native plants. They have also created a comprehensive Indigenous Garden GuideYou can also collect Habitat and Indigenous Gardening Booklets for a gold coin donation from CRISP
Contact CRISP
Website: https://www.crispnursery.org.au/index.html
Tel: (03) 9879 3911
email:crisp@melbpc.org.au

Kids in Nature

Natural environments and outdoor play are beneficial to children in many ways. Playing outdoors is important for developing capacities for creativity, symbolic and imaginative play, problem-solving, responsibility, respect, intellectual development as well as providing the opportunity to develop a connection to the land and environment that they are part of and which sustains them. 
Kids and their families are encouraged to explore and engage with the garden. Harvest, cultivate, and play. 


Nature Play Resources
Here are some great Nature play resources:
Family Nature play ideas during a pandemic
Nature Play in Maroondah

Permaculture Design 

This 80-hour course covers a wide range of topics and includes site visits and some practical exercises. Throughout the course, you will learn the design components to produce a high-quality Permaculture Design for an area of your choosing which will be presented to the class at the end of the course.

Permaculture is so much more than gardening. It is a holistic approach to sustainable living. It’s an intentional design process that works with nature allowing for energy efficiency and abundance of yield. Over the 8 weeks of this course, you will cover an extensive list of topics guided by the recognised Permaculture Elder Pete the Permie and his team of tutors.

Eastern Region Food CoOp (ERFCO)

Collections are the last Saturday of February, May, July and November from 3pm-4pm. Order your dry goods, organic veggie boxes, option to buy straw and toilet paper.
Sign up 

 

See the Bedford Park Garden Facebook page for more details:  www.facebook.com/BedfordParkCommunityGarden

You can also book the garden for your function. Kids sure love it out there and we have marquees you can hire and you get access to bathroom facilities at the Centre.

For all bookings please phone 9870 2602