Resources

GARDENING

Alice Springs Vegie Garden Companion, 2010 - planting guide, how and what to grow in Alice Springs. Download PDF or purchase a hardcopy (helping raise funds for the community garden).

Gardens in the Desert, Imaginative Gardening in Arid Australia, Arid Lands Environment Centre 2nd Edition 1992 ISBN 0731676629, 9780731676620

Arid-land permaculture, Bill Mollison 1978. Alice Springs Library -AS COLL 577.54 MOLL (not for loan)

Gardening Guru Costa Georgiadis Facebook page

SOIL and COMPOST

Compost Education Centre (California) - teaching resources, fact sheets, 'how to' guides

WATER and IRRIGATION

Water use at the Alice Springs Community Garden - video

Alice Water Smart - guides to being water smart, water efficiency consultations, watering schedules and more!

Arid Edge Environmental Services - social enterprise of the Arid Lands Environment Centre that offers garden tune-ups, irrigation advice, landscaping, food gardens and permaculture courses.

NETWORKS

Australian City Farms and Community Gardens Network - an informal, community-based organisation linking people interested in community gardening around Australia Also their facebook page!

Remote Indigenous Gardens Network - networking, research and outreach initiative. Monthly newsletter.