Our recent newsletters
Spring newsletter – 2023
President's Message Dear Members, Winter is behind us and gardeners can start soil building in readiness for Spring and Summer crops.With this is mind, the Committee has arranged for the September Working bee to be a working time dedicated to improving your own garden beds.So on Sunday 17 September 2023 be at the garden in your working gear ready to shovel soil improving compost onto your garden. We have four wheelbarrows or you may wish to bring a bucket and collect the compost in that rather than wait for a barrow. Keen gardeners may like to enhance the compost with some manure or peat to fertilize and improve Water retention.Our next AGM is on 15 October 2023. Nominations are open for all Committee positions. Committee...
Winter newsletter – 2023
President's Message Dear Members and friends,Welcome to our new members:Merelyn and Yosi and their families Plot 4 commencing in JulyKris and family Plot 25Alison and Michi and families Plot 43Lina and Dougall and family Plot 46. The Building Taskforce has been busy replacing rotten garden edging in the plots that most needed it. Sleeper replacement has been finalised for plots 1, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 43. Thanks to Phil Redelman and Daniel Bloom who risked life and limb getting the hardwood to site and in place - hard work!! And to Bunnings Rose Bay and Randwick for donating $500 towards the purchase of hardwood sleepers at Bunnings Alexandria.Thanks also to Woollahra Council which provided financial assistance for the purchase and...
Autumn newsletter – 2023
President's Message Dear Plotters & Friends, Watering has been on the agenda again as the weather has become warmer with less rain about. I would like to thank all the members who were at our first Working Bee in February for their tremendous efforts getting order back into the garden after our break from November. A number of Committee members were unable to be at the February working bee and I would like to thank Esther, Meagan, Inés, Helen, Bruce, Jessica and Rudi for their involvement on the day. A warm welcome to some new and not so new members:Plot 9 Justin Mitchell and family (new last year)Plot 29 Fiona and Philip Sewell – Taskforce Weeds and PestsPlot 30 Richard (Ryszard) and Joanna Maleszka pictured below meeting Diane...
Summer newsletter – 2022
President's Message Dear Plotters & Friends, 2022 has been a busy year back in the garden.The Building team has installed a new working bench (guaranteed to be waterproof), paved around the work bench, raised and polished the shed floor, restored and varnished the garden benches, relocated the BBQ outside, rebuilt and strengthened the weathervane and tool storage column, installed a street library by the front gate, and set up a gardening, landscaping, architecture and arts reference library. The Compost team has participated in training and implemented new layering and aeration practices for compost production. The Worm Farming team has installed a Hungry Worm Farm which replaces the four previous farms with one larger unit. The...
Spring newsletter – 2022
President's Message A very warm welcome to our new members: Peter Still (Plot 1), Daisy Clementine and her family Ray and Yuankee (Plot 17), Dominique Novak D'Hennin and her mum Priscilla (Plot 26), Daniel Bloom (Plot 34) and Lisa Southcott who is assisting with the community plots. The garden is looking good after a long, wet winter. Thank you all for keeping Cooper Park Community Garden so well maintained and productive. Our hard work has paid off with Woollahra Council voting unanimously to extend our 816sqm land lease for another three years with an option (theirs not ours) to further extend for another two. This gives the CPCG Organising Committee the certainty we need to continue investing in improving the garden infrastructure....
Autumn newsletter – 2022
President's Message Dear Plotters & Friends, Firstly, a very warm welcome to our new members: Vanda (Plot 5), Anna (Plot 19), Siannon & Zach (Plot 29), Geoffrey (Plot 35), Meagan (Plot 36), Katrina & Andrew (Plot 40), Jessica (Plot 43) and super-keen members who are volunteering for the community plots Allegra and Dominique. After two most unfamiliar years, I’m happy to announce that the Council has confirmed that our QR code check-in is no longer necessary and that we can once again welcome friends and community groups into the garden — provided they are fully vaccinated. This month Cooper Park Community Garden is hosting various surveys by Plant Bio Surveillance Pathologist Dr Anil Raghavendra from the Department...
Summer newsletter – 2021
President's Message Dear Community Gardeners, Recent rain has made summer maintenance much easier. We missed our end of year get together because of the rain. Keep the date - Sunday 16 January 2022We will be having a working bee (10am-12 noon) and BBQ (12 noon to 2pm). This will be socially distanced as much as possible and open to fully vaccinated members. See you there. If you can’t make this one, our next Working Bee and BBQ will be on Sunday 21 Feb 2022. Thank youI would like to acknowledge the work of our retiring Secretary, Nick Brennan, who has joined Marie-Paule and the rest of his family in Melbourne. Nick worked hard to set up great administrative processes for the garden and was a valued member of...
Spring newsletter – 2021
President's Message In the last couple of months we have had quite a few inquiries and applications to join the garden. Please introduce yourself and welcome new members if you see them in the garden - Rita and family (garden bed 2), Mariangela & family (4), Michael & family (16), Fiona (29), Tahlia (34), Kristen (43) and Janet (46). We also have the able assistance of Neeva who will be helping out on the communal area weeding and de-cobwebbing the fence as part of her Duke of Edinburgh award. The garden is looking ready for Spring and we are currently checking with members who haven’t been able to visit recently, about how to manage their garden beds. To protect the entire garden from weeds and pests, individual beds...
Our recent newsletters
Spring newsletter – 2023
President's Message Dear Members, Winter is behind us and gardeners can start soil building in readiness for Spring and Summer crops.With this is mind, the Committee has arranged for the...
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