The Victoria Park Community Garden aims to provide a safe, friendly and inclusive space for members of the community to grow fresh produce and learn sustainable gardening in an urban environment.
Our Beginning
In 2008 a group of residents from the Town of Victoria Park came together to discuss how a Community Garden can be formed to provide a venue for growing food and educate locals on gardening and sustainability.
Following several brainstorming sessions the group visited West Leederville Community Garden and chose to follow the garden’s structure of leasing allotments to individuals as well as providing communal garden spaces such as the fruit orchard, berry patch and frog pond. Use of land in Read Park on Albany Hwy was granted by the Town of Victoria Park council and the garden started to form.
The Victoria Park Community Garden is lead by a committee responsible for the governance and keeping of financial records which are audited annually. If you are interested in being a part of the committee please use the contact form.
“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.”
— Audrey hepburn
Do not despair brown thumbs, the Community Garden offers free workshops on subjects such as worm farming, pruning, sowing seed and the like. Gardening is a life journey and we can never know enough. The Garden also holds busy bees on a regular basis to tidy the communal areas, these are an excellent way to meet other members and learn from their experience.
Planting out the communal potato patch
Our Mission
The Town of Victoria Park has a significant amount of high and medium density homes meaning many people in our community are not able to grow produce or garden. The Victoria Park Community Garden aims to provide everyone with an opportunity to get their hands dirty and experience the joy of biting into a juicy carrot grown by themselves. We are an open and inclusive community and we welcome diversity and cultural differences in our members.
