We welcome new members to the Farm. Surrounded by the Jerrabomberra Wetlands, we are also home to many small insect-eating birds, who work hard with their human companions to keep the garden and farm areas healthy in a sustainable, organic way. We also have the bees from the ACT Beekeepers Association’s hives working to pollinate our trees and plants.
If you would like to join us, please fill in the membership form and come along to a Working Bee or a Farm Tour on Monday and Thursday at 9.30am by emailing info@ccfarm.org.au and putting “Farm Tours” in the subject line. Other times are possible by arrangement – at the same contact.
See Activities for some of your options for participation.
For current COVID-19 restrictions at the City Farm, click here.
Regular Events
IMPORTANT MESSAGE The Committee is seeking to encourage members and friends of the City Farm to become actively involved in current and new opportunities the farm is offering. For more information about these opportunities, please see the Committee’s letter here.
Monthly Mingles: Monthly Mingles are winding down for 2024. The next will be on 17 November. It will be a celebration of Urban Agriculture Month and include a book launch for local author Cormac Farrell, Head Beekeeper at Parliament House. Cormac will be talking about his new book Urban Beekeeping, The City as a Hive. Bring your copy if you want it autographed. There will also be the final Mingle for 2024 on 15 December. This will be our End of Year Celebration and include a lucky door prize as well as a bag of compost for the first ten people to register.
In addition to these regular Mingles we will be holding a special event on 8 December to celebrate World Soil Day. The morning will start with building a compost heap. This will be followed by lunch and a talk by two local farmers, Damian and Rachael, from Home Soil, Bywong about their farming journey. Please bring a dish to share, festive or otherwise!
As usual for such events we will provide pizza bases, sauce, and cheese; please bring other pizza toppings for our volunteers to prepare various options to share. For details of these events click here.
The 2025 Monthly Mingle program will recommence in February and details will be posted on the events page when they are available.
Working Bees: In addition to our Monday and Thursday working bees,we have weekend working bees every Sunday from 10 am to Noon. For more details click here or see our Events page.
Plant Clinics will now be held at the weekend working bees. If you have been having problems trying to identify pests and diseases which are affecting your garden plants and you don’t know how to deal with them, then a visit to the plant clinic may help. If your plants are not thriving in your soil, perhaps you need some advice on how to make you soil more plant friendly. All gardening questions are welcome. Keith Colls will be happy to answer any of your gardening questions. PLEASE NOTE, if you are bringing diseased plant material or pest insects from home please ensure they are in a sealed plastic bag or glass bottle so they do not contaminate the City Farm gardens.
Workshops: Workshops will continue from time to time throughout 2024. You can find more details about these events here.