Sustainable Macleod
Projects by Sustainable Macleod include the highly successful Vegie Swap, Community Garden, Tool Library and Seed Bank and a yearly sale of plants.
What’s going on
Check out our calendar of events for the Sustainable Macleod Community Garden opening times as well as the latest workshops and social events
Christmas Party
Friday 16 Dec, 6pm
Come and celebrate! There’ll be pizza from the pizza oven, music, and for kids games and activities and a visit from Mother Christmas who will be bringing a bag of goodies!
New Year’s Eve Party
Sunday 31 Dec, 7pm
Come and celebrate the old year and the new year with friends and family. Enjoy pizza. music, games and kids’ activities.
Latest from the blog
Featuring the latest Macleod news along with a variety of gardening and growing tips, recipes and information on sustainable living.
It’s time to renew your Sustainable Macleod membership!
That time of year has arrived! Membership of Sustainable Macleod is due on 1 January 2024 for the calendar year 2024. People who have joined since 1st October will have their membership rolled over to 31st December 2024. Sustainable Macleod membership costs $30 and...
Urgent jobs in the garden for December
Cover tomatoes, chillies, capsicum and eggplant with exclusion netting and weigh down the hem with soil, mulch or heavy objects so Queensland Fruit Fly cannot enter beneath the netting. Net your fruit trees with exclusion netting, tying tightly to the trunk at the...
What to plant in December in Melbourne
Plant in punnets It is too late to raise most summer vegies in punnets because, by the time they are big enough to fruit, the season will be almost over. The following quick growing vegies and herbs are the exception: lettuce, rocket, and salad greens mustard greens...
Wasps we should welcome
At primary school I had a teacher who was very concerned we’d swallow a wasp in a can of soft drink. He often told us to use a straw (before single-use plastics became recognised as an environmental disaster). He was worried about the aggressive invasive European...
Hilling all root vegetables
'Hilling' or 'hilling up' of potatoes is a well-known technique for producing more tubers and preventing 'greening', which is toxic to potatoes. Less well-known is that hilling up all root vegetables will lead to better produce and prevent shoulder greening of...
BANSIC Christmas Appeal
Can you help with donations of cash, food, toys, toiletries? I've been sitting in the front of my computer feeling teary as I read the recent BANSIC Donor Update. Life is, sadly, so challenging for many people in the Banyule community that BANSIC has gone from giving...
Join Sustainable Macleod
Become a member and get access to the community garden, the tool library and our seed library. We welcome all members of the community and have regular events and workshops to enjoy.