Greenbushes Community Garden
Welcome
The Greenbushes Community Garden has the motto Meet – Smile – Grow. We grow spray-free vegetables, have a bountiful orchard and an extensive biodiversity area. Our garden is located in the middle of Greenbushes, near the Roadhouse, on Blackwood Road, opposite the Exchange Hotel. The garden has only common garden beds.
We hold inclusive weekly busy bees and regular monthly events.
Best way to make contact is by joining our weekly busy bee on a Thursday from 9am. Come earlier if the weather is hot. From May to August we meet weekly on Thursdays, from 10am.
Read the Gardem’s Ground Rules here.
We charge a fee for attending any of our learning events. Community events are usually free and most events are free for members too. Easiest way to find the registration link on Humanitix is if you google – Humanitix Greenbushes. To improve our community mental health and reach, we have partnered with Act-Belong-Commit. Out events are usually listed in their Activity Finder.
We offer monthly workshops and often add other events, like community dinners or bonfires with Live Music. Check out facebook page for more details, or check back on this website.
For events and our weekly busy bee, please bring a small plate of food or your own produce from home for our morning tea that ends each meeting around 10:30-11am. We encourage all volunteers to become members. Annual membership is $20.
The garden’s activities and artworks have been bringing many visitors into town. Recently the garden added a makeover of the garden shed, by two local artists Sally Stoneman and here daughter, with clouds on blue sky and two magpies waiting at the door.
The Greenbushes Well got a makeover with recycled materials and whimsical decorations, made by local artist Mick Latimer.
How we started
The Greenbushes Community Garden was established in 2010, around the former laboratory building of Talison Lithium. Talison donated the building and property to the Shire of Bridgetown-Greenbushes with the ongoing purpose of becoming the location of the community garden.
Founding members are Tracy Lansdell, Pat Scallan, Lyn and Barry Perks, as well as Maria and Dom Iacopetta. Later, Felicity Littleton, as well as Steve and Leanne Green joined the garden team.
The orchard trees were planted by children of the local primary school who wrote good wishes for the trees that were placed in the ground near the tree’s roots.
Tracy Lansdell coordinated the garden with this dedicated garden crew for the first crucial ten years, guided by a strong focus on biodiversity.
From 2020 the garden commenced a new phase under a new leadership team and garden crew. With funding from the Department of Communities, we developed a strategic design plan based on permaculture design principles with input from the local school, other clubs, local residents and all garden members.
We are still working on the implementation of this design plan for our Greenbushes Go2Garden. The garden crew demolished garden beds that were no longer working well and created new areas better suited for engaging the local community in ‘Come and Learn Sessions’ and social events. Under the project we installed new raised garden beds and secured sponsorship for a pizza shaped garden bed from Monadelphous Group.
Over the years our garden had continuous sponsorship for our local mining Company Talison Lithium who not only donated the building and land for the garden but also helped us out with many projects and needs that we had.
In the recent ast Talison sponsored our nex inverter that allows us to stay off grid with positive environmental and financial benefits. Talison Lithium also sponsored the guge fire pit and the transplabting of some balgas onto the town centre’s bushland. We are grateful and thank all sponsores and helpers from the bottom of our hearts.
In 2025 the Departent of Communities provided the garden with its most recent funding to upgrade the irrigation sustem, install new shade and seating features, better signage and purchase new power tools for the garden crew.
We thank all our sponsors from the bottom of our heart.
