Palmwoods Community Garden

Palmwoods Community Garden is a place where local residents & community groups are welcome to come to ‘grow and help others grow’.
It is named ‘Soil & Soul’ as it as much about growing relationships as about growing plants.
A licence agreement has been made whereby the Palmwoods Uniting Church has leased some land to Palmwoods Community & Business Association at no cost to be used as a Community Garden. This relationship is to be maintained through communication and mutual consideration with mindfulness towards the environment and benefits of the community. Thanks to the Sunshine Coast Council we received a grant to prepare the site. We also received a Healthy Towns Award under the Greenspace category which paid for our first set of raised beds.
Purpose and Objectives
• promote a harmonious mix of the diverse approaches to sustainable gardening
• encourage the spirit of cooperation, consultation, community pride and achievement
• making productive use of vacant land
• to acquire, share and increase knowledge and practice of chemical-free gardening
• cooperate with nature to establish and maintain an ecologically balanced and sustainable method of growing fruit, vegetables, flowers and trees
• to be inclusive in being available to people from a diverse range of backgrounds, ages and abilities