

BLUE MOUNTAINS edible garden trail
25th & 26th october 2025
We sincerely acknowledge the traditional custodians of the Blue Mountains, the Darug and Gundungurra peoples, on whose land the Edible Garden Trail takes place. We pay our respects to their elders, past and present, thank them for their continuing care for Country, and acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.
Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.
MOUNT VICTORIA

1. WILD HEALTH HUB - Candace Coughlan
49-51 St Georges Parade, MOUNT VICTORIA
Soil, science, and supper all come together in Candace's backyard. The veggies are vibrant, the chooks are chatty, and the mushrooms are downright gourmet. This cool-climate edible garden doubles as a living classroom, showing how you can grow abundantly, eat seasonally, and boost your health, even if you rent. Raised beds overflow with seasonal produce, a native bush food garden adds unique flavours to the mix, and gourmet and medicinal mushrooms — including lion’s mane and oyster — thrive in their shady spots. A flock of feathered “assistants” keep the eggs coming and add plenty of personality to the garden. Candace will be hosting fermentation and food-as-medicine demonstrations at 11am, 1pm and 3pm, exploring how what you grow can be transformed into gut-loving, immune-supporting creations. You’ll see how the journey from garden bed to kitchen bench — and sometimes into a bubbling jar — can turn fresh harvests into nourishing, living foods. There will also be fermented goodies, seasonal garden treats, and handmade natural care products available, all inspired by the principles — simple, natural, and full of life.
SUNDAY ONLY
10am - 4pm
BLACKHEATH

2. BLACKHEATH COMMUNITY KITCHEN GARDEN - BRIAN BRIGHT
165 Wentworth Street, Blackheath
Responding to the “cry of the earth and the cry of the poor”, this community garden grows organic produce for those in need, partnering with Vinnies, Blackheath Area Neighbourhood Centre, and the Uniting Church. Composting system, vegetables, & fruit.
SATURDAY ONLY
10am - 4pm
3. blackheath community farm
60 Thirroul ave, blackheath
The Farm is a place to connect with our community and share knowledge, stories, skills, and food in a beautiful outdoor setting. We provide opportunities to learn more about permaculture and bush regeneration. All welcome. Worm farm, Composting system, Vegetables, Fruit.
SUNDAY ONLY
10am - 4pm


4. blackheath PUBLIC SCHOOL
1 LEICHHARDT STREET, blackheath
A flourishing veggie garden fueled with school-made compost and chicken manure from a flock of 7 chooks. To reduce food waster students use a variety of composting systems, worm farms, chickens and compost bins. These systems feed the veggies and fruit that are grown in 9 raised garden beds. Students harvest organic produce for the healthy school canteen so all students can enjoy freshly picked, organic produce. Students were instrumental in the design of the gardens, the set up and a dedicated Green Team manage the upkeep of the composting systems and work in the gardens.
SUNDAY ONLY
10am - 4pm
5. ROBIN JOHNSON
83 Evans Lookout Road, BLACKHEATH
Three plastic tunnels dominate the back yard, growing in grow bags, a wide range of salad greens and herbs. Robin will demonstrate seed sowing, pricking out of seedlings, and creating soil mixtures for the bags. The front yard is settled on a formal rose garden style, with clematis running over a garden pergola. Four rain water tanks provide water security through the hot summers.
SATURDAY & SUNDAY
10am - 4pm


6. HELEN GILLAM
15 STAVELEY PARADE, BLACKHEATH
Large and diverse raised bed vegetable plot, fruit trees, berries, and herbs along with an old established garden full of cool climate specimens.
SATURDAY ONLY
10am - 4pm
7. the little orchard - sonya forrest
51 mort street, katoomba
Perched in a valley, The Little Orchard is a delightful small-scale property that puts permaculture principles into practice in every corner. This productive garden is home to 35+ fruit trees of various kinds, a grove of hazelnuts and walnuts, and multiple vegetable beds. You’ll also find a native garden that supports local biodiversity, a composting system, and a bathtub worm farm recycling organic waste into rich soil food. A highlight is the charming tiny house on wheels, which will be open for visitors to explore. The Little Orchard also features two friendly goats helping to manage weeds and contribute to the fertility cycle.
Join in an outdoor community sound healing session with Vanessa Fang, to connect with nature and nurture your well-being in a peaceful, serene environment.
SUNDAY ONLY
10 am - 4 pm

KATOOMBA

8 JEN HALL
96 CAMP STREET, katoomba
Nestled in a stunning north-facing position, this well-established permaculture garden is a vibrant teaching space, home to Permaculture Matters and the inner space. With its highly productive veggie patch, orchard, worm farm, ponds, and waterway, the garden demonstrates the power of living in harmony with nature. The property also features a large glasshouse with a wicking bed, solar passive and energy-efficient buildings, and ample rainwater storage, all contributing to a sustainable, self-sufficient environment. Native bushland adds to the biodiversity, creating a thriving ecosystem.
Permaculture Matters offers a range of workshops and Permaculture Design Courses on site. Join our free info sessions at 11 am or 2 pm to learn how to live in alignment with nature and grow abundantly.
SATURDAY ONLY
10am - 4pm
9. FARM IT FORWARD at KATOOMBA HIGH SCHOOL
CNR DOWLING & BOURNE STREETS, katoomba
Farm It Forward (FIF) is a charity matching residents and organisations who have unused land to people with skills and passion to grow local fresh food regeneratively. FIF design socio-environmental care programs for high school aged young people focusing on care-full transition to regenerative ways of being and growing. The grow tunnel at Katoomba High school is a hands-on space for action research which involves working with local First Nations people, youth peer support organisations, and our local high school to provide transformative learning programs for young people.
SATURDAY ONLY
10am - 4pm​


10. KATOOMBA PUBLIC SCHOOL
18 MERRIWA Street, katoomba
School kitchen garden that is a special place in the hearts of the children, families, and staff at Katoomba Public. The children love caring for the chickens and are super excited to harvest vegetables they have grown themselves.
SATURDAY ONLY
10am - 4pm
11. blue mountains planetary health initiative
acacia street, katoomba
Waterwise Demonstration Gardens. See different ways of planting that can save you water including wicking beds, a worm farming compost seat, wildlife ponds, oja- making demonstrations, and what to plant in the Blue Mountains so the birds don't eat your garden!
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SATURDAY ONLY
10am - 4pm


12. SILVANA FRANZE
10 fifth avenue, katoomba
Inspired by her parents’ knowledge and experience of growing their own food all their lives, Silvana maintains various fruit and nut trees, and Mediterranean plants in conjunction with the Australian Bush. The garden supplies her Italian cooking classes with produce.
SUNDAY ONLY
10am - 4pm
leura
13. MAGGIE's FARM
42 Mount Street, Leura
Very large vege and fruit garden. Espaliered apples, figs. Also blueberries and raspberries. Most veges. Mulch and compost systems. Worm bin. Variety of barrier tricks to protect young seedlings and mature produce from butterfly/birds/pests. My success is so much about barriers!
SATURDAY & SUNDAY
10am - 4pm


14. ALCHEMY FARMS - LENI NYSSEN
45 RAWSON PARADE, Leura
Small permaculture homestead that integrates veg and fruit production, chickens, rabbits, and goats. Waste is a resource as shown with the grey water recycling system, worm farms, and multiple composting and animal systems.
SUNDAY ONLY
10am - 4pm
15. LEURA PUBLIC SCHOOL
MOUNT HAY ROAD, LEURA
An edible garden lovingly tended by students.
Composting system, Vegetables, Fruit.
SATURDAY & SUNDAY
10am - 4pm


16. the vegary - belinda jones
47 kings road, leura
A large backyard veg and fruit tree garden, with a large chicken coop and veg enclosure 'the vegary'. Not a community or commercial garden, but a private veg garden which is very productive and feeds the neighbours as well as Belinda.
SATURDAY ONLY
10am - 4pm
bullaburra

17. sunnyside up farm - the hunter family
28 genevieve rd, bullaburra
Set on half an acre of gently sloping land, overlooked by a hand-built strawbale home, Sunnyside Up Farm features a continually evolving permaculture food forest of fruit trees, citrus, berries, vegetable gardens, medicinal herbs and a recycled window glass house. Hugelkulture beds and composting systems are used to improve the soil biodiversity and water holding capacity. Chickens, quails, rabbits and bees play an integral part in the ecosystem and also contribute to food production. @sunnysideup_farm
SUNDAY ONLY
10am - 4pm
18. KARUNA ELLIOT
37 Albert Road, bullaburra
A colourful flock of chickens, beehives, quail (co-housed with rabbit and guinea pigs), young food forest, medicinal herb garden, food and sunflower garden across one cleared acre of bushland property.
SATURDAY & SUNDAY
10am - 4pm

lawson

19. Powell Family Permaculture Gardens
93 Ridge Street Lawson
Three year old permaculture gardens on a regular-sized sloped suburban block. Large garden enclosure with annual veg beds and adorable free-range quail, surrounded by a thriving young food forest. Chooks & ducks in a deep litter yard with pallet-made houses. Espaliered apples in hardwood frames. Flourishing verge garden, bush tucker area, kiwi arbour, constructing a reclaimed-materials glasshouse. Compost systems aplenty including pallet compost bays, worm cafes and bathtub, chop & drop, separate pet waste compost set-ups.
SUNDAY ONLY
10 - 4pm
20. mid-mountains community garden
kihilla 5-17 queens road, lawson
An organic closed-loop community garden with a sustainable gardening system that minimises waste and maximises resource recycling.
facebook.com/MidMountainsCommunityGarden
SATURDAY ONLY
10am - 4pm


21. MOUNTAINS GOURMET - RHIANNON PHILLIPS
44 badgery Crescent, lawson
Abundant organic market garden with composting system and bees.
SATURDAY ONLY
10am - 4pm
22. EARTH RISING MUSHROOM FARM
CATARACT STREET, lawson
Unique mushroom farm tour!
View all types of mushrooms grown in a controlled environment in a shipping container.
SATURDAY ONLY
10am - 4pm

hazelbrook
23. HARVEST COLLECTIVE
Cnr. Orama Rd and Railway Pde, hazelbrook
Homegrown, Handmade, Harvested with Love
A creative sharing of seasonal goods from our homes to yours. Honour-system stand.
SATURDAY & SUNDAY
10am - 4pm


24. Tarraleah - andrew & norma price
92 Railway Parade, hazelbrook
Large covered orchard with raspberries, blackberries, loganberries, plum trees, apricot trees, Quince, fig trees, lemonade tree, lemon and lime trees.
SATURDAY ONLY
10am - 4pm
25. BLUE MOUNTAINS STEINER SCHOOL
83 CLEARVIEW Parade, hazelbrook
A permaculture garden in a school in the bush. Food forest and vegie garden surrounded by a playground filled with fruit trees and native bush where students play, work, and regenerate. Chickens, compost, and helpful frogs and lizards make their homes in this delightful patch.
SUNDAY ONLY 10am - 4pm

woodford

26. aline richards
38-44 park road, woodford
Chickens, an orchard, composting bays, worm farm, and bees with vegies in both front and back yards. CWA fundraising stall.
SUNDAY ONLY
10am - 4pm
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27. yarrawa - felicity anderson
74 bedford road, woodford
Originally developed in a native cottage style, "Yarrawa" has evolved over the years to incorporate fruit and nut trees, vegetable gardens and deciduous ornamentals for seasonal colour. Gentle paths and dry stone walls meander down to a chicken coup, a composting corner and a small hanging swamp. Poultry, Worm farm, Composting system, Vegetables, Fruit, Other animals.
SATURDAY & SUNDAY
10am - 4pm
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LINDEN

28. TOTORO - MARILYN PRIDE
60 Martin Place, Linden
A small garden, full of edibles, herbs and bee plants, with a frog pond and a big worm farm. The house has an earth roof planted with grasses ,bulbs and succulents. Plants for sale on both days ( herbs, succulents, edibles and salvias).
​SATURDAY & SUNDAY
10am - 4pm
FAULCONBRIDGE
29. SERENITY CORNER
20 HIGHLAND ROAD, FAULCONBRIDGE
Started in 2023, Serenity Corner comprises a small vegetable garden and fruit enclosure.
Beginning with two recycled raised beds and growing to nine in 2024 it continues to expand with edible flowers and bush food added this year.
Access by foot straight up the long drive and through the open gate.
SATURDAY ONLY
10am - 4pm


30. PETER GREEN
31 TARONGA WAY, FAULCONBRIDGE
Veg, citrus trees, worm farm, & herbs in walled gardens.
SUNDAY ONLY
10am - 4pm
springwood

31. sPringwood community garden
168 hawkesbury road, springwood
Established using permaculture and organic principles the food forest has over sixty fruit trees including apples, pears, plums, figs, quince, feijoas, mulberry and pomegranates and many citrus varieties including limequat and pomelo.
There’s a bush tucker garden with native rosella (hibiscus), finger lime, blue flax lily, appleberry, midgenberry, native currant, native mulberry, Davidson plum, sandpaper fig, lemon myrtle, Warrigal greens and macadamia.
Other fruiting plants include lillypilly, cherry guava, Kiwi fruit, and strawberries.
A BMCC composting hub with a large worm farm. Enjoy a cuppa and home made goodies.
SATURDAY ONLY
10am - 4pm
32. THE URBAN FARMER BLUE MOUNTAINS.
16 edna avenue, springwood
Set on a lush 1/2 acre, this evolving community space includes an emerging food forest, communal circle, children's play space and ampitheatre. Poultry, bees, worm farm, composting system, vegetables and a myriad of fruit trees. Kids can navigate the garden with our interactive map and enjoy some playful challenges.
Ange will be baking up a storm of delicious treats for you to enjoy with a cuppa. Peter Kabanoff will showcase his recycled garden art - insect hotels, bird houses, nesting boxes and street libraries. Excess plants for sale.
SATURDAY & SUNDAY
10am - 4pm

BLAXLAND
33. EUROKA CHILDRENS CENTRE
116-118 Great Western Highway, blaxland
The edible garden at Euroka Children's Centre has been created for the children to learn about nature, sustainability, and healthy eating.
Having a native bee hive at the center of it — not only helps to pollinate the plants, but also teaches the importance of bees in the ecosystem. The mix of bush tucker, vegetables, fruits, herbs, and aromatic plants creates a rich and diverse environment for both learning and sensory experiences
SATURDAY ONLY
10am - 4pm

GLENBROOK
34. STEVE BUSHBY
10 WRIGHT STREET, GLENBROOK
Spring/Summer garden beds & greenhouse showcasing a strong Mexican cuisine-themed planting focus. Key inhabitants include: a wide variety of chilli plants, from Jalapenos to face ripping Habanero, sweet corn, popcorn, tomatoes, tomatillos, young avocado trees, and plenty of limes benefiting from the warm conditions of the lower mountains.
A good array of fruit trees including feijoa, mulberry, tamarillo, tangelo, finger lime along with a host of citrus.
Overseeing this little garden are a mix of heritage hens, adding character and a natural pest control.
SATURDAY ONLY
10am - 4pm

emu heights
35. RIVERBANK ORGANICS
21 RIVERBANK DRIVE, EMU HEIGHTS
A family living on acreage along the Nepean River at the base of the Blue Mountains in Emu Heights, the property is home to chickens, a wide variety of organically grown vegetables, and more than thirty fruit trees.
The family business, Riverbank Organics, was originally started as a fun way for the kids to sell homegrown mulberries and vegetables. Since then, it's expanded and now supplies the local community. A place where people can connect with nature, learn about organic growing, and see where their food comes from.
SATURDAY & SUNDAY
10am - 4pm
