Mitchell garden
The Northside Community Garden is nestled in rolling farmland near Mitchell. Our views are of Crace Hill, tall gum trees and curious cows.
The garden moved from Watson in 1994 and we are well positioned for keen gardeners from Canberra’s northern suburbs.
We are a diverse group, with experienced gardeners rubbing shoulders with first-timers and experimentalists mixing with traditionalists.
We share a communal herb garden and fruit trees and hold periodic working bees to keep the grass and weeds down, clean up the garden shed and common areas, rabbit proof the fence and maintain the plumbing.
As elsewhere in Canberra, the garden is frosty in winter and hot and dry in summer, but organic methods have helped make the soil fertile and we enjoy good summer and autumn harvests and hard-won winter rewards.
In addition to resident chooks, a worm farm and a cactus plantation, the garden is home to wonderfully diverse birdlife, lizardlife and the odd native rat.
The Northside Community Garden is currently full. To find out more about the garden or to be put on the waiting list for a plot, please contact COGS.
