Composting and worm-farms are important parts of community and school gardens. Composting your organic waste is an important contribution to a healthy environment.
Find out where the community gardens in your local area are.
School gardens function as outdoor classrooms and offer the perfect learning environment.
Community gardens are based on land owned by the local or state government, schools and churches. They can either be shared gardens, where gardeners look after the whole garden and share what they grow, allotment gardens, where individuals or families manage their own garden beds, or a mixture of both.
The Manly Environment Centre will host the 19th Ocean Care Day Festival, a free fun community event on Manly's spectacular surf beach.
Check out the eco exhibitions and local art, while learning more about our gorgeous local environment as well as today's big issues.
Sunday’s Bike Life Festival attracted a colourful crowd of cyclists and cycling enthusiasts as part of Manly Council and the Manly Environment Centre’s program of activities celebrating Bike Week.
Permaculture is the art of gardening naturally. It has been described as "a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature", and is concerned with self-sustaining human settlements and farming systems.
It's ten years since Cabbage Tree Bay became a no-take Aquatic Reserve.
Now Manly's prettiest cove delights swimmers, snorkellers, walkers and beach-goers of all ages, and shows just how good a Marine Sanctuary can be.
Manly's Eco Award recognises our Unsung Heros
And the winner of the 2012 Eco Award is... SILKE STUCKENBROCK
Photographer and environmentalist Silke Stuckenbrock took out this year's Manly Environment Centre Eco Award for her internet-based ‘clean up’ movement - the Two Hands Project.
Unsung Hero of Manly’s Environment Recognised in Eco Award
The 2011 winner of the Eco Award is ERNIE MURRAY
Manly Environment Centre recently held its annual Eco Awards to recognise the members of our community for their outstanding contribution to the conservation of our environment in Manly. Over 100 people attended the event which was held at the prestigious International College of Manly Sydney.
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