BLUE MOUNTAINS edible garden trail
2nd & 3rd March 2024
We sincerely acknowledge the traditional custodians of the Blue Mountains, the Darug and Gundungurra peoples, on whose land the Edible Garden Trail takes place. We pay our respects to their elders, past and present, thank them for their continuing care for Country, and acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.
Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.
little Hartley
1. BLUE MOUNTAINS LAVENDER
371 Coxs River Road, LITTLE HARTLEY
Blue Mountains Lavender Farm is primarily a commercial lavender farm growing different varieties suitable for distilling for essential oil and culinary uses with a large vegetable and herb garden, orchard with apple, pear, apricot, plum, and quince trees. Free-range chooks, three beehives, composting system, and damask roses.
SATURDAY & SUNDAY
10am- 4pm
mount victoria
2. VANESSA & TERRY
14 Ailsa Street, MOUNT VICTORIA
A small and compact edible garden with fruits trees, berries, herbs, veggies, composting system, flowers and ducks. Please note driveway, steps and pathway access.
SATURDAY & SUNDAY
10am - 4pm
3. Candace Coughlan
49-51 St Georges Parade, MOUNT VICTORIA
A vibrant backyard haven with raised bed vegetable patches, gourmet & medicinal mushroom production, a sanctuary of herbal delights and an ever expanding Australian Native Bush Food garden. Spoiled chickens and thriving worm farms enrich the sustainable circle. Wild Health Hub pop-up outdoor classroom for daily fermentation demos at 11am and 2:30pm. Homemade ferments are also available for purchase.
SATURDAY & SUNDAY
10am - 4pm
BLACKHEATH
4. BLACKHEATH COMMUNITY KITCHEN GARDEN - BRIAN BRIGHT
165 Wentworth Street, Blackheath
A community kitchen garden with composting system, growing fruit and vegetables for those in our community in need.
SATURDAY ONLY
10am - 4pm
5. blackheath community farm
60 Thirroul ave, blackheath
Abundant community garden with fruit, vegies and herbs. Composting systems and worms farms.
SUNDAY ONLY
6. ROBIN JOHNSON
83 Evans Lookout Road, BLACKHEATH
A thriving garden with three poly tunnels growing salad greens, tomatoes and cucumbers, plus a verge garden. Robin is the author of The Gardener through History, and just published Garden Design for Everyone.
30 trays of lettuce seedlings for sale.
SATURDAY & SUNDAY
10am - 4pm
KATOOMBA
8. jane truswell
14 pundi lane, NORTH katoomba
Mixed up garden of raised vegetable beds constructed using Hugelkultur technique, flowers, natives, woodland garden, poultry, and fruit trees.
No parking in lane.
SATURDAY ONLY
10am - 4pm
7. BLUE MOUNTAINS FOOD CO-OP
market garden
college lane (reAR 55-57 KATOOMBA STREET) KATOOMBA
Blue Mountains Food Co-op's market garden producing veg, herbs and flowers for the Co-op in conjunction with Farm it Forward.
SATURDAY ONLY
10am - 4pm
9. maja baska
70 victoria street, NORTH katoomba
A rambling, thrifty garden with 'soft edges' and the odd weed. Poultry, bees, verge garden and composting system.
SATURDAY & SUNDAY 10am - 2pm
10. Altin Gavranovic
15 Station Street, katoomba
Suburban veggie garden on a small block with chickens, fruit trees, compost bays. No dig, mostly organic.
SATURDAY ONLY
12. CLIFFTOP HARVEST - VICKI & DAMO
96 Cliff Drive, katoomba
This 500 square meter intensive vegetable production garden is the main patch of Clifftop Harvest growing veggies for the local community through farmgate pickup and Blue Mountains Food Co-op. Currently there are about 30 different types of vegetables, herbs, and edible flowers rotated through a mosaic of patches. Gardeners, Vicki and Damo, use a no-till system with a deep compost mulch, which helps reduce soil disturbance and minimise weeding.
SATURDAY & SUNDAY
10am - 4pm
11. EARTH REPAIR FOUNDATION - MICK CONNOLLY
16 Station Street, katoomba
Permaculture designer in residence. Fruit trees, unique compost bins, lots of edibles including cucumber, zucchini, tomatoes, kale, broccoli, cauliflower, blackberries, garlic.
SUNDAY ONLY 10am - 4pm
13. blue mountains planetary health initiative
old katoomba golf course
acacia street, katoomba
The Planetary Health Initiative garden is part of a developing water demonstration site. It includes a permaculture garden with a pond built by young people, wicking beds, a grow tunnel with drip irrigation, and wildlife-compatible edible gardens that don’t require netting.
SATURDAY ONLY
10am - 4pm
13. blue mountains planetary health initiative
old katoomba golf course
acacia street, katoomba
The Planetary Health Initiative garden is part of a developing water demonstration site. It includes a permaculture garden with a pond built by young people, wicking beds, a grow tunnel with drip irrigation, and wildlife-compatible edible gardens that don’t require netting.
SATURDAY ONLY
10am - 4pm
14. SILVANA FRANZE
10 fifth avenue, katoomba
A beautiful mix of fruit and nut trees including peach, apple, plum, pear, cherry, mulberry, walnut, chestnut, lemon, persimmon and fig, plus “mini” vineyard, olive trees, vegies, herbs, berries, and a foragers garden inspired by Mama's Italian roots.
SUNDAY ONLY
12pm - 4pm
leura
15. MAGGIE MCNULTY
42 Mount Street, Leura
Maggie's Farm' was started on a half acre block in the year 2000 - with more and more vegie beds added over the years. Now a very large garden with berries and fruit trees, worm farm and composting system.
SATURDAY ONLY
10am - 4pm
16. ALCHEMY FARMS - LENI NYSSEN
45 RAWSON PARADE, Leura
A young permaculture homestead integrating chickens, meat rabbits, milking goats, worms and composting system into our large veggie patch and orchard.
SUNDAY ONLY
10am - 4pm
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17. werona eco cottage & garden
20 central street, wentworth falls
Established ornamental garden lovingly converted to an edible garden with olive and fruit trees, wildlife corridor, vegie patch & chickens. See how extensive resilience updates are unfolding post drought, fire and flood and how they are transitioning to a full eco-demonstration site.
SATURDAY ONLY
10am - 4pm
18. susanne rix
24 claines crescent, wentworth falls
Small garden. About 15 fruit trees including amazing Kiwi fruit vines producing about 60 Kg. A couple of raised beds, some berries, citrus, plums, asparagus etc.
Susanne is the founder of the Edible Garden Trail.
SUNDAY ONLY
10am - 4pm
19. kindlehill school
8-12 lake street, wentworth falls
A bountiful children friendly set of gardens with vegies, fruit forest, flowers, bees and native plants. @kindlehill_school
10am -12 noon: Permaculture Plan Launch
12 noon - 2pm: Permablitz
1pm-2pm: Permaculture in Schools Leni from Alchemy Farms, will speak to designing for schools. Sarah Daniel, gardening teacher and High School geography teacher, will speak to integrating Permaculture into the curriculum including teaching an integrated Permaculture Design Certificate in Year 11
Swap and Crop picnic (byo blanket and lunch)
SATURDAY ONLY
10am - 4pm
20. LOST THE PLOT - SUE LIGHTFOOT
28 FITZGERALD street, wentworth falls
Fully enclosed garden built on permaculture principles plus common sense using recycled materials. Home produce for the over 60 year old. Green house, chickens and worms.
SATURDAY ONLY
10am - 4pm
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21. sunnyside up farm - the hunter family
28 genevieve rd, bullaburra
Set on half an acre of gently sloping land, overlooked by a hand-built strawbale home, Sunny Side Up Farm features a continually developing permaculture food forest of fruit trees, citrus, berries, aquaponics, vegetable gardens and medicinal herbs. Hugelkulture beds and composting systems help to improve the soil biodiversity and water holding capacity. Chickens, ducks, quails, rabbits and bees play an integral part in the ecosystem and also contribute to the food production on the farm. @sunnysideup_farm
SUNDAY ONLY
10am - 4pm
22. MOUNTAINS GOURMET AT KOOKABURRA DREAMING - KARUNA ELLIOT
37 Albert Road, bullaburra
A collaborative space with many zones of genius.
Communal market garden with quail in polytunnel, 20-ish chickens, young food forest, medicinal herb garden, three beehives, a worm farm, and composting system across one cleared acre of bushland property.
SUNDAY ONLY
10am - 4pm
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23. Powell Family Permaculture Gardens
93 Ridge Street Lawson
Two year old permaculture gardens on a regular-sized sloped suburban block. Large garden enclosure with annual veg beds and adorable free-range quail, surrounded by a thriving young food forest. Chooks & ducks in a deep litter yard with pallet-made houses. Espaliered apples in hardwood frames. Flourishing verge garden, kiwi arbour, early stages of a reclaimed-window glasshouse. Compost systems aplenty including pallet compost bays, worm farms, towers, chop & drop.
SATURDAY ONLY 10 - 4pm
24. lAWSON PUBLIC SCHOOL
ADELAIDE STREET, lawson
School garden consists of multiple garden beds with a freshly built garden enclosure to keep the birds from eating crops and a big chicken coop.
SATURDAY ONLY
10am - 4pm
25. mid-mountains community garden
kihilla 5-17 queens road, lawson
An off grid garden using organic principles.
facebook.com/MidMountainsCommunityGarden
SATURDAY ONLY
10am - 4pm
26. MOUNTAINS GOURMET - RHIANNON PHILLIPS
44 badgery Crescent, lawson
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27. BLUE MOUNTAINS GROWN -chrystine walter
12 burford street, hazelbrook
Chemical-free companion mini orchard of mature fruiting avocado trees, feijoas, guavas, tamarillo, limes, and plums. Autumn fruits. Netted veggie beds. Solar and pumped tank water. Emphasis on recycling, maximising space. PH awareness. Produce for sale: garden fruits as jams and chutneys; 2-3yr old local feijoa and guava bushes; some grafted cold climate avocado trees. Mountain friendly plants such as: flax, tamarillos, herbs. Verge olive trees.
SATURDAY 10am- 2pm
SUNDAY 10am - 4pm
28. Tarraleah - andrew & norma price
92 Railway Parade, hazelbrook
A blend of the productive and pretty this garden has an orchard with a mixture of espaliered fruit trees and many varieties of berries. The produce is used to produce Prices Produce jams and chutneys - only fruit grown on the property is used in these jams. Jams will be available for purchase on the day. On the pretty side they specialise in growing fuchsias. There will be some of them available also. This garden was also featured on Gardening Australia on the 16 February 2024.
SATURDAY & SUNDAY
10am - 4pm
29. BLUE MOUNTAINS STEINER SCHOOL
83 CLEARVIEW PARADE, hazelbrook
Blue Mountains Steiner school garden is a working and teaching space for edible gardening based around permaculture principles and influenced by Rudolph Steiner’s writings on biodynamics. The veggie garden, chicken house and food forest are cared for by children in the middle years of primary school, with extra help from children and families throughout the whole school from preschool to year 6.
SATURDAY ONLY
10am - 2pm
woodford
30. aline richards
38-44 park road, woodford
A sloping bush garden with raised vegie beds, small orchard, greenhouse, chooks, natives and orchids. CWA fundraising stall.
SUNDAY ONLY
31. satis house
keely and daniel
69 railway pde, woodford
Colourful fun productive garden with fully enclosed veggie garden, potted citrus trees, tropical courtyard, composting system, in ground worm farm/s, quails and vertical growing.
Plant for sale.
SUNDAY ONLY
LINDEN
32. Mandalay – ADELE & DAVE SHARMAN
28 Glossop Rd, Linden
This garden uses an economical way to grow vegies and herbs all year round with three walk-in pod-style covered raised vegie beds. Utilising poultry manure with compost and weed tonics to intensively grow veg. The homemade cob oven, from "Build your own earth oven” by Kiko Denzo, is a truly economical way to make an oven in your backyard from found materias and earth. There are also herbs beds, fruit trees with two chicken runs and a new addition of an outside bath area constructed from second hand materials.
SATURDAY ONLY
10am - 4pm
33. TOTORO - MARILYN PRIDE
60 Martin Place, Linden
Small garden full of edibles. House has earth roof. Chooks & a big worm farm too.
SATURDAY ONLY
10am - 4pm
FAULCONBRIDGE
34. FAULCONBRIDGE PUBLIC SCHOOL
GROSE ROAD, FAULCONBRIDGE
(entry gate at Meeks Crescent)
Stephanie Alexander School Kitchen Garden Program operating for the last 10 years! Six large wicking beds, two vegepods, 14 fruit trees, large compost bay, worm farm, outdoor classroom and WIP living cool classroom. Maintained by the "green team” and science classes who plan, plant, prepare, harvest, cook and eat together every week. And overseen by the legendary Dirt Mum, Beth Healy.
SUNDAY ONLY
10am - 4pm
35. PETER GREEN
31 TARONGA WAY, FAULCONBRIDGE
Varied vegetables, citrus trees, worm farm, and some herbs. Biochar added, but largely organic. Garden room approach, with summer and winter gardens separated by garden wall. Most produce goes to food charity or neighbours.
SUNDAY ONLY
10am - 4pm
springwood
36. joe & Jo tabone
57 lucinda avenue, springwood
Bio-intensive urban market garden, fruit orchard and perennials, chickens and quails, composting and biogas systems, mushroomery, bees and large community verge garden.
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY
10am - 4pm
37. sPringwood community garden
168 hawkesbury road, springwood
An organic permaculture garden that is a BMCC composting hub, and features a large worm farm; food forest with over sixty fruit trees including apples, pears, plums, figs, quince, feijoas, mulberry and pomegranates; citrus trees including limequat and pomelo; a lillypilly and cherry guava hedge; Kiwi fruit and passionfruit arbour, and strawberries used as ground cover.
A Bush Tucker Garden includes Blue Flax Lily, Appleberry, Midgenberry, Native Currant, Native Mulberry, Davidson Plum, Warrigal Greens and Macadamia.
Homemade refreshments, preserves uisng garden produce, and plants will be for sale.
SATURDAY ONLY
10am - 4pm
38. THE URBAN FARMER BLUE MOUNTAINS.
16 edna avenue, springwood
Set on a lush 1/2 acre, this evolving community space is in the throes of design, construction and planting. With an emerging food forest, this unique space incorporates a communal circle, a children's play space, an ampitheatre in the pond performance space; home to singers, actors, musicians, storytellers, poets, DJs, stand-up comics. Its primary purpose is to teach permaculture. Workshops and Performances will be offered to help build and connect community. Volunteers welcome. Excess plants available for sale. Major sponsor, Peter Kabanoff, will have available for purchase, bird houses, bird feeders, nesting boxes, possum and micro bat boxes, insect hotels and street libraries. All made using recycled materials and offcuts.
SATURDAY & SUNDAY
10am - 4pm
39. DANIEL HATFIELD
46 Boland avenue, springwood
Sloping north-facing block with terracing and small formal cottage garden at the front. Food forest, veggie gardens, worm farm, composting system and a mix of food, fiber, and future building materials.
SATURDAY & SUNDAY
10am - 4pm
sun valley
40. 'Frankie Farm' - Dan & Mel jackson
101 great western highway, sun valley
'Frankie Farm' is a 2 year old 1 acre permaculture garden demonstrating how to garden on a slope and what you can achieve in a few short years. Featuring orchards with swales, integrated goat and chicken system, raised vegetable gardens, a thriving deck garden off the house, fruit guilds, native bees and a ramshackle glass house that was built with high hopes. Bring your lunch and enjoy a cuppa with Dan and Mel to learn about their journey.
@frankie.farm
NB: Located on service road, turn right immediately after coming off the Greater Western Highway and don’t go down into Sun Valley.
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY
10am - 4pm
BLAXLAND
41. blaxland public school
BADEN PLACE, BLAXLAND
The edible garden at Blaxland Public School provides an excellent opportunity for children to learn about nature, agriculture, and healthy eating in a hands-on way. There are seven garden beds growing herbs, seasonal vegetables and fruit. The school has implemented a composting system whereby scraps from the 'Crunch n Sip' program are collected and deposited into the school AeroBin. The children also have a roster to water, weed, and care for the garden.
Barista coffee and homemade baked goodies availabe to purchase.
SATURDAY ONLY
10am - 2pm
42. hope community gardens
69 Old Bathurst Road, blaxland EAST
Located in the GrowFree Laneway, between Blaxland East PS and United Service Station the gardens are home to the Blaxland Blessing Box street pantry, the first GrowFree Cart in NSW and GrowFree gardens. Several raised vegie gardens with herbs, flowers, salad greens, fruits and veggies. The produce is free for anyone who needs it. The beds, soil and plants were donated and volunteers maintain the gardens for the community. @dirtmum
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY
Self-guided tour only
GLENBROOK
43. SANDRA GAMBLE
59 WRIGHT STREET, GLENBROOK
The aim of this garden is to produce vegetables, fruit and eggs in a manner that is water-wise and doesn't release much nitrogen and phosphorus into native bushland and waterways. Built around a passive solar home, the established ornamental garden contains plants that grow locally. Features poultry, worm farm, and composting system.
SATURDAY
10am - 4pm
