about the movement
This weekend-long event on 23–24 March 2024 will celebrate the many and diverse ways that residents of Orange (and surrounding towns) are growing food. While this is the first in Orange, the Edible Garden Trail movement has been growing for years around Australia. Each Trail is locally run and independent, celebrating and showcasing their own community, for the benefit of the community.
frequently asked questions
The benefits of a productive garden are as varied as the people that grow them. An edible garden can:
- Build food security
- Support community resilience
- Reduce the cost of quality produce
- Bring the health benefits of low-tox production
- Bring pleasure and enjoyment
The Orange Edible Garden Trail is volunteer-run and not-for-profit, and is proud to reinvest any profits into local community garden projects. As a visitor you can see the ways people in our local community, and our very specific climate, are successfully growing food to eat and share.
Feeling on the fence about opening? Gardeners understand that a garden is never finished, our visitors are interested in your processes, successes, failures and learnings! Hear some words of wisdom from previous Sydney participants (our favourite lines are ‘Don’t wait until it’s perfect, because you’ll never open’ and ‘You’ll meet the nicest people on these things’!
The event will be held on 23–24 March 2024 from 9am–4pm. We will be announcing gardens shortly.
You won't need to arrange your own insurance. Orange Edible Garden Trail has public liability insurance and can provide a copy of the certificate of currency on request.
If weather conditions prevent us from proceeding with the event, we will reschedule the event for another weekend. If you are unable to attend at the revised event date, we will transfer your booking to our 2025 Garden Trail.
register your garden
If there’s one community development slowly growing around the country that excites me beyond my usual state of agitation, then put the glasses down and dance around with your hands in the air like you just don’t care because for me, Edible Garden Trails are the pulse!
Costa Georgiadis
Edible Garden Trail Ambassador