March in your garden

Its harvest time in your vegie garden, and time to think about what you want to plant in winter. It’s also a great time for making changes to your ornamental garden… the soil is still warm but the sun’s heat is not as intense. Click here for more.

Sustainable Living and Gardening Classes

Kick off the new decade by treating yourself and a friend or two to one of our new season of classes. Coming up soon we have..

Preparing for Winter Vegies (back by popular demand) WEDNESDAY 10th MARCH
Backyard Chooks Part 2 THURSDAY 11th MARCH
Waterwise Plants – Drought Tolerant and Beautiful WEDNESDAY 17th MARCH
The Thrifty Gardener THURSDAY 18th MARCH
Click here for more info and bookings.

Preparing Your Winter Vegie Garden

Autumn is the ideal time to get back out into the vegie garden. Summer vegies should just about be finished so think hearty soups and stews and get planting! Click here for more.

Autumn Kids Gardening Workshops

Encourage your kids off the couch these holidays and into some good dirty fun. Lots of short workshops to choose from. Scarecrows, worm farms, gardening in pots, shoes and more!
Click here for more info and bookings.

Citrus Trees

Citrus trees offer glossy green foliage year round, with sweetly scented flowers and beautiful and edible fruit. There are few trees that are as ornamental and practical as a citrus tree. Citrus are a must for every back yard. Citrus trees include: Cumquats, Grapefruit, Lemons, Limes, Mandarins, Oranges, Tangelos, Pumelos and various others. March is the time to watch out for Citrus Leafminer… click here for more info.

Tomato Preserving Recipes

You spent so much time growing these beautiful tomatoes… make sure you don’t just leave them to sit and rot in the garden. Maria has a couple of simple and very tasty ways to make sure you preserve the tomato harvest. Click here for more.

Homegrown -The Art of Gardening Sustainably

A Bolin Bolin Gallery exhibition to spread the word about sustainable gardening in our community and raise funds for SGA (Sustainable Gardening Australia). 5th February to 14 March. Click here for more.

Shopping Online at BAAG!

We are very excited to announce the launch of our new, secure online shop. At the moment you can grab yourself (or your friends and family) a book, gift voucher or a spot in one of our classes or workshops. We’ll be expanding the shop range during 2010, so stay tuned. Click here to start shopping online!.

Got any community news or events to share?

If so, we would like to help you promote them. If you are involved in any project, group or event in our local community we would love to help you spread the word. Please email the details to community@baag.com.au. You can attach pictures as well if you like. We will give preference to things going on in our local area, and in particular those aimed at Sustainability and Gardening. Click here for more.

Community event – Vegie swap meet

Too many tomatoes? Loads of lemons? Bundles of beans? Don’t let them go to waste. Bring along your excess home grown produce, anything from vegetables and fruit to worm juice, and swap it for someone else’s excess produce. The next Vegie Swap will be held on March 20th between 9.30am and 10.30am. Everyone’s welcome, just turn up on the day. BAAG is only providing the space for this community event and will not be gaining financially in any way from it.

Community event – Worlds biggest Eva Vegie swap

Saturday 13th March City Square, Swanston Street 10am – 2pm

Got too many lemons? Over run with parsley but no sweet basil in sight? If only you could swap all those olives for tomatoes! Well now you can!

Yarra Neighbourhood Orchard, Cultivating Community, CERES and The Food and Wine Festival bring you a one off chance to participate in the World’s Biggest Eva Vegie Swap.

This phenomena has been sweeping Victoria, Australia and the world as folks realise the galaxy of potential that’s in our backyards and how easy and fun it is to get together and swap food – So bring along your vegies, herbs, seeds, seedlings, cuttings, preserves, recipes etc and see how it’s done – you might even get one going in your community!