$100 secures your very own brick and membership for one year (after this period a lesser membership fee will apply and you can opt out). You can also make a contribution of $10 or $25 and have your name listed on our website, or corporations have the options of Bronze, Silver and Gold  membership and will get a brick and a listing on our website.

Please call us on 9325 7229 or 0429 002 620 or email admin@perthcityfarm.org.au if you have any questions.

If for the unlikely reason the Incorporation fails, the funds raised will be returned.

The Story of Perth City Farm March 2013 from Perth City Farm on Vimeo.

Want to know more about us?

Perth City Farm is an urban community garden, education and network centre. We promote healthy environments that are productive and diverse. Founded in 1994 as an initiative of the youth branch of Men of the Trees in Western Australia. Before becoming an organic permaculture centre, the site was used as a scrap metal yard and a battery recycling plant. Perth City Farm for the past 19 years has transformed the site with the help of hundreds of hours of labour in order to demonstrate how heavily degraded land can be rehabilitated.

Perth City Farm promotes environmental awareness and responsible practices by providing information, training and hosting community-based projects:

a) Providing space for disability groups to learn how to propagate plants, art work for groups such as Nulsen Association and The Centre for Cerebral Palsy

b) School Tours – sharing community gardening and the use of small spaces to grow food

c) Workshops – a variety of hands-on skills taught from gardening to cooking to building; to skills taught that are no longer available in main stream or at home

d) Work-for-the-dole Programs with Mission Australia; Community First International and Communicare

Perth City Farm also supports the local music and art community through regular concerts, festivals and exhibitions.

Perth City Farm offers a place for those to rejuvenate, be connected and join our team of volunteers and staff to build an oasis in the heart of the city surrounds. We come together every day to feed our team of helpers, mostly picked from our garden.

By becoming a founding member you will be supporting a number of valuable projects:

a) Constructing and building a “Growing Gardens” area at the entrance to PCF. This will feature a vertical edible wall, and small display gardens with the view to everyone having the opportunity to learn how to grow food in small spaces. The construction of this project has been sponsored by the City of Perth.

b) The opportunity to learn more from our Aboriginal Elders in the Aboriginal Story Telling Corner built by Atlas Iron Volunteers, through regular tours.

c) Constructing and building an “Abilities Nursery” with the view to assisting people with disabilities to work and learn skills of operating a nursery. We will also be running a retail nursery 6 days per week.

d) Sensory Garden – in partnership with Nulsen and The Centre for Cerebral Palsy this will provide a beautiful space with water sounds, music, touch garden and more.

e) Building & Construction – partnering with Construction Training Fund and Polytechnic West for the delivery of Vocational Education Training specifically a Cert 2 in Building Maintenance to selected Yr 11 & 12 school Students from Perth Metropolitan Schools – beginning March 2013.

f) Partnership with Central Institute of Technology to deliver Cert 2 in Horticulture and Cert 2 in Resources and Infrastructure, beginning February 2013.

g) Commercial production for growing mushrooms in re-used coffee grinds from local cafes, sponsored by BHP Billiton and City of Perth.

h) Developing a commercial worm farm operation to focus on diverting organic waste from local businesses in East Perth. Volunteers from Woodside have assisted in the construction phase of housing the worms.

i) Weekly farmers market operating amongst the gardens to assist in promoting their produce – monthly themes eg. bush tucker and food demonstrations!

j) In partnership with Central Institute of Technology we are hosting a 20 week course named the GATE (Gaining Access Through Education) program for those with disabilities.

k) Sponsored by Hatchd, the chicken surrounds will be rejuvenated. Their team will be volunteering time here to assist with design, water systems, feeding lots and shaded areas.

l) Nestled amongst our market garden we have built a water feature aptly named the ‘Wargul’. Plants for this water feature have been donated by Steve Wood and the pump donated by HATCH Engineering.

Only 1,000 bricks available for naming rights.

Below is a list of all our stallholders this week – if you come down, give our growers a great, big thank you for all they do!

The Woodfired Baker – Bread, Cakes, Mince Pies
Jacinta’s Creations – Handmade cards, diaries, bookmarks
Michele Trovato – biodynamic, seasonal veg from her farm.
Environment House – Environmentally friendly products and books
Wambyn Olives  - Olives, olive oil, oil soap
Brockway Orchard Fruit – Spray Free Uncertified
Toutikian, Harry & Sona – Seasonal fruit and veg from their own farm
Saki Soaps – Quality handmade soaps, vegies and preserves.
Ixchell health – Health products, raw foods, health teas.
Jennifer and Phil Catalano – Medicinal herbs, some bulk products.
Yummeeme – Persian Gluten free & vegan cakes
Laterite Ridge – Chicken, quail, olives & more
Dean Wood – Honey
Blessed Earth Consultant – Organic clothes and textiles
The Little Oven – French baked goods
Designed for Kids – Handmade toys and leather shoes for children
Jacqueline Grattan – Potted Herbs and plants

Valley View Orchards – Stone Fruit/Jam

Driftin Design Jewellery – Handmade jewellery

Want a perfect way to spend your Saturday morning? Come to our markets!

We have all our regulars this week supplying us with organic fruit and veg with the exception of Valley View Orchards (but don’t worry, they’ll be back next week with their lovely stonefruit!) and we have a newcomer – Designed for Kids with some fun handmade toys and leather shoes! So if you have a present to buy for a little one, check their stall out!

We also are fortunate enough to have Karin, a regular at our markets, to be offering collapsable shopping trolleys to buy through her. For more information see our stall as we’ll have one on display as well as a sign-up sheet for those of you who are interested.

Below is a list of all our stallholders this week – if you come down, give our growers a great, big thank you for all they do!

The Woodfired Baker – Bread, Cakes, Mince Pies
Jacinta’s Creations – Handmade cards, diaries, bookmarks
Michele Trovato – biodynamic, seasonal veg from her farm.
Environment House – Environmentally friendly products and books
Wambyn Olives  - Olives, olive oil, oil soap
Brockway Orchard Fruit – Spray Free Uncertified
Toutikian, Harry & Sona – Seasonal fruit and veg from their own farm
Saki Soaps – Quality handmade soaps, vegies and preserves.
Ixchell health – Health products, raw foods, health teas.
Jennifer and Phil Catalano – Medicinal herbs, some bulk products.
Yummeeme – Persian Gluten free & vegan cakes
Laterite Ridge – Chicken, quail, olives & more
Dean Wood – Honey
Blessed Earth Consultant – Organic clothes and textiles
Solarfruits – Dried ftuits
Designed for Kids – Handmade toys and leather shoes for children
Jacqueline Grattan – Potted Herbs and plants

The Woodfired Baker – Bread, Cakes, Mince Pies
Jacinta’s Creations – Handmade cards, diaries, bookmarks
Michele Trovato – biodynamic, seasonal veg from her farm.
Environment House – Environmentally friendly products and books
Wambyn Olives  - Olives, olive oil, oil soap
Brockway Orchard Fruit – Spray Free Uncertified
Toutikian, Harry & Sona – Seasonal fruit and veg from their own farm
Saki Soaps – Quality handmade soaps, vegies and preserves.
Valley View Orchards – Stone Fruit / Apricot Jam and Stewed Fruit.
Ixchell health – Health products, raw foods, health teas.
Jennifer Catalano – Medicinal herbs, some bulk products.
Yummeeme – Persian Gluten free & vegan cakes
Laterite Ridge – Chicken, quail, olives & more
Dean Wood – Honey
Driftin Design Jewellery – Hand made jewellery
Loretta & Jim – Spices
The Little Oven – French baked goods
Me Grow Organic – Grow system for small spaces

Your child will learn life skills they may not experience elsewhere, including woodwork, acting, circus skills, science and how to be creative through an array of different forms of art, to creating beauty products from natural ingredients, to making terrariums.

We make it fun, environmentally friendly, sustainable and community based to allow the kids to feel at ease and happy to participate. All of our educators have a ‘working with children’ check.

Includes LUNCH daily

Dates: Monday 29 April to Friday 3 May.

Program runs 9am to 3.30pm.

Drop off from 8.30am with late pick-up until 4.00pm

Ages 6 – 10

Cost $80 per day includes all food. Special dietary requirements are catered for.

Maximum 30 children per day.

For more information please contact Perth City Farm Administration on 08 9325 7229 or email admin@perthcityfarm.org.au

Book your child’s place online at
 http://holidayapril.eventbrite.com.au

Above program subject to change depending on bookings.

Last week’s Easter market was a fun affair with lots of parents and kids coming along to see our baby chicks and participate in the Easter Egg hunt around the City Farm garden. Congratulations to Chris and Callum for finding the lucky egg and winning a bicycle! Some of the our chicks were adopted out and the rest will now enjoy a happy & long life at Harry Toutikian’s & Michelle Trovato’s organic farms.

This week sees all our regular stall holders back, plus some special features, like Ali Jardine with her book “The Colour of Health – Food for Life”.

Come down and listen to some of the great tunes by Stu Orchard (thanks to WAAAM!) and enjoy a beautiful morning amongst the vegetables with the kids.

Unfortunately Michelle Trovato will not be attending in person this week however she will be supplying her vegetables to us, so we will have all her usual great Biodynamic offerings on the City Farm stall and on Sona Toutikian’s stall. Our condolences go out to the Trovato family for their loss this week.

This week’s markets sees most of our regular stall holder attending, but some are taking the chance to spend time with their family  – Michelle and Harry will be here. We have ordered big for our City Farm stall to ensure that we have enough vegies and fruit to get you through the festive break. ALL organic!

Stu Orchard will be along to provide the tunes with thanks to WAAAM, and it’s another great opportunity to get to the country in the city if you want to make  a detour on the road to good health!

Plus we have our Easter Egg hunt for the kids, with one lucky finder snatching the chance to win a kids bike (2-3 yr old) if you find the lucky egg.

Plus we will have 20 little chicks for the kids to pat, and Isabella will be bringing PIP along and if you are nice, you can get the chance to get friendly with a very happy lamb – just ask Smella – PIP is happy!!!

Also back and fully stocked is Mat Longworth from Laterite Ridge, who will be stocking a full range of chicken and his amazing quail from Laterite Ridge with plenty of eggs in stock. This week we are also again selling fresh Dandaragan Organic Beef, one of the best producers in WA of certified organic, and absolutely delicious beef. And taking pre-order for full sides of organic lamb for next week!
Robbie & Andrew from The Wood Fired Baker will be making us some organic hamburger buns so you can try a 100% organic hamburger made from produce sourced completely at our own City Farm Market for a super price of $8.00! And make sure you come and get some of the Wood Fired Baker’s ORGANIC Hot Cross buns while they are hot for the next 2 weeks!

This week’s stallholders:

- Perth City Farm vegetables and information stall

· Bill Wallace Chutneys – Handmade Indian Chutneys

· Solarfruits from Donnybrook – Healthy dried fruit snacks, fruit sauces and jams.

· Akwaaba – African drumming & baskets

· Pottery by Amanda Harris

· Ringwould Cheeses – Handmade goats and cows specialty cheeses and goats cheese

· Laterite Ridge – Chicken, quail, olives and more

· The Woodfired Baker – Organic breads, beef pies

· Jacinta’s Creations – Handmade cards, diaries, bookmarks

· Michele Trovato – Seasonal veg, pork and beef from her farm (Biodynamic certified)

· Environment House – Environmentally friendly products and books

· Wambyn Olives – Olives, olive oil, oil soap (NAASA certified)

· Brockway Orchard – Fruit – spray free

· Toutikian, Harry & Sona – Seasonal fruit and veg from their farm, home made tomato sauce and hummus (NAASA certified)

· Saki Soaps – Quality handmade soaps and beauty products including organic

· Blessed Earth consultant – Certified organic clothes & products

· Valley View Orchards – Stone Fruit / Apricot Jam and Stewed Fruit (sustainable practices)

· The Organic Circle – Health products, super foods, raw food creations, health teas

· Bookara Goat Stud – Goat meat, cheeses – available through Perth City Farm stall.

· Yummeeme – Persian gluten-free & vegan cakes

· Jacqueline Grattan – Herbs and plants

· Jennifer Catalano – Medicinal herbs, some bulk products

· Live music organised by the West Australian Academy of Arts and Music (WAAAM)