Events

15 December 2019 - Christmas Social Come along and share some food and beverages with your local community at the Garden. Please bring a plate or something to share. All welcome. Bring the kids! For those who can't make it, we wish you all a lovely festive season and a relaxing break. Thank for all who have contributed this year. 25 August 2019 - 1 year anniversary Spring will soon be upon us, marking the first anniversary of the RPC Garden! Join us for a social get together, working bee and membership renewal for all existing members and a join up call out for non members. We can only keep running with the help of membership fees, volunteers' hard work and the occasional fund raiser. Membership is only $30 annually. Please bring a plate to share and spread the word! All are welcome! 28 July 2019 - Compost workshop with Jon Kingston We are so excited to announce our first guest speaker! Local garden expert and horticulturalist Jon Kingston will be at our next working bee to offer valuable advice and training in a special composting workshop.  Jon Kingston describes himself as a 'free range urban horticulturalist'. Jon studied horticultural science (B.Hort Sci) at UWS Hawkesbury and has worked in garden design, bush regeneration, vegetable gardens, horticulture retail and production for 25 years. During this time he has partaken in the design and delivery of over 10 community and/or edible garden projects, including the James Street Community Garden in Redfern, kitchen and cocktail gardens for numerous restaurants, a handful of new gardens for City West Housing and a range of private backyards and balconies. Jon specialises in ecological design, organic food production systems, and bushland restoration.  We are very excited to be able to learn from Jon's valuable experience in urban gardening. We hope you can all join us. Please bring a plate if you can for morning tea... In case of wet weather we will still work if the rain is light. 6 April 2019 - Easter social Hi Friends and Gardeners, We are getting ready for our next working bee and social get together on Saturday, April 6. Whether you're not yet a member and just want to find out more about the garden and meet other locals, or if you are a member who hasn't been around for a while, we would love to have you there. And our regular gardeners too of course! Join the working bee first if you are keen to get your hands dirty or just turn up for a drink and a chocolate egg afterwards if gardening isn't your thing! All are welcome, young and old. We'll have some fun activities to keep the kids busy too. *Bring $20 cash on the day if you've been meaning to join or haven't completed your membership and we can sign you up!  INVITATION Saturday, April 6, 2019 Reconciliation Park, Redfern Working Bee 2 - 4 pm Party Time: 4 - 6 pm Fun for the whole family, including an Easter egg hunt, craft activities and prizes! Please bring along a plate to share  WORKING BEE SUMMARY Tidy up the vertical garden and add a few more planters Mount a new blackboard to the shed for communications and notices Tidy up the shed Take out the potatoes and replace with new seedlings Prepare new seedlings Tidy up the warrigal greens and lay pavers along the second bed Turn the compost and include an introduction about composting for everyone