Inverell Community Gardens

10/02/2026

Surplus Zucchinis. Try this Recipe.

With tender roasted zucchini, salty feta, charred sweet corn and crunchy seeds, this dish will satisfy a veggie craving and is the perfect balance of taste and texture.

02/02/2026

Some plant combinations bring in the insects every garden needs.
The right pairings turn flowers into landing pads for pollinators and pest hunters.

- Squash & Borage — borage's blue blooms are magnets for bees that pollinate squash flowers
- Tomatoes & Sweet Alyssum — tiny alyssum flowers attract hoverflies whose larvae devour aphids
- Cucumbers & Dill — dill umbels draw parasitic wasps that protect vines from caterpillars
- Peppers & Yarrow — yarrow brings ladybugs that patrol pepper leaves for soft-bodied pests
- Beans & Cosmos — native bees feeding on cosmos improve bean pod set significantly
- Cabbage & Fennel — fennel's airy flowers host tiny wasps that attack cabbage caterpillars
- Zucchini & Calendula — bees move freely between calendula and zucchini blooms all morning
- Eggplant & Lavender — pollinators linger near lavender and visit eggplant flowers more often
- Strawberries & Phacelia — ground beetles sheltering under phacelia reduce slug damage nearby

28/01/2026

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26/01/2026

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Boost your garden naturally with the right homemade amendment. 🌱
• Coffee grounds acidify soil—perfect for roses and berries
• Crushed eggshells add calcium for fruiting plants
• Diluted milk strengthens squash, cucumbers, and peas
• Wood ash provides potassium and raises pH for root crops
• Each plant benefits most from a specific nutrient boost
• Simple kitchen scraps = stronger, healthier harvests

🌱 Feed the soil, fuel the garden—naturally

24/01/2026

There are simple things we can all do to encourage more native wildlife to our gardens, backyards, balconies and shared spaces.

05/12/2025

15/11/2025

Unfortunately we have had to cancel our stall at the markets tomorrow due to lack of produce variety and preserves.

Apologies for any inconvenience.

09/11/2025

The second phase of the NSW government's plan to tackle the plastic pollution crisis will roll out in stages from next year until 2030.

08/11/2025

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07/11/2025

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Making your own seed-raising mix is easy to do – you only need four simple ingredients – and the results are so worth it.⁠
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Ready to learn this great fundamental skill of edible gardening? 🌱⁠
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On the Milkwood blog today, we're sharing our *best-ever* seed raising mix recipe - one we’ve experimented with and refined over many years.⁠
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The recipe we've landed on uses the lowest footprint and most locally available materials we can find.⁠
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And, by making your own, you get to side-step the plastic bags that store-bought seed-raising mix usually comes wrapped in.⁠ Good stuff.⁠
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Here's the full how-to and recipe (which is also inside our , if you happen to have a copy and prefer to read things on paper 📖):

https://www.milkwood.net/2022/11/07/seed-raising-mix/
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Let us know if you've made this one before? We love seeing all your photos.⁠
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[Image descriptions: a series of photos showing the various stages of making your own seed raising mix.]⁠
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15/10/2025

An Australian photographer who took a unique shot of a skeletoniser caterpillar is among the winners.

14/10/2025

Markets are on Sunday 19th October 🪙Pioneer Village🪙 We will be at our stall with produce, plants and preserves.
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Harvesting and packaging will be done on the Saturday prior to market day at 9.00am and we'll be at the markets at Pioneer Village 🪙 on Sunday at 7.30am.

Any help you can give would be most appreciated. 🌞Many hands make light work.

If you have anything to spare from your home garden that would be most appreciated.

Let us know when you are available to help.

Many Thanks.
Rob. 0427 393 675
Jal. 0428 582 906