The Central Coast Edible Garden Trail is a weekend of inspiration, connection and so much fun! Grab your ticket early so you have plenty of time to peruse the huge range of gardens.

Garden hosts will share their passion, wisdom and practical know-how to a steady flow of visitors. This year our focus is on Permaculture. If you’re looking for in depth information on a particular garden be sure to arrive for a scheduled tour where the host will take a group through their garden and explain their permaculture systems, design and plant choices, what’s worked and what hasn’t.

Or feel free to wander through on your own to enjoy each beautiful and unique space.

All of our garden hosts and organisers are volunteers, giving their time and wisdom freely. The funds raised through ticket sales are redistributed to our local community – read more about what we have done with previous years' monies.

The Trail is self-guided so you can decide which gardens you’d like to visit. You’ll have the opportunity to learn about:

Food forests
Small animal systems including deep litter, chook tractors and integrated food forests
Water management including swales, rain gardens and ponds
No dig raised beds and sheet mulching
Keeping bees – Native and European
Habitats for wildlife
Building healthy soil through compost, worm farms, deep litter, chop and drop and green manure crops
Mandala gardens
Gardens for biodiversity
Perennial plants that grow well in locally

So, bring along your keen observation skills and an arm full of questions. We can’t wait to share these inspirational gardens with you.

Ticket holders will have access to around 30 private gardens and a variety of community, laneway and school gardens. Your ticket provides admission to all gardens over the trail weekend - Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th May 2025, between 09:30am and 4:00pm on each day. Please note, that some gardens will only be open for one day and some gardens may not open for the full day. Check the Current Garden Profiles on the Central Coast Edible Garden Trail website for opening days, hours and tour times for each garden.

Ticket holders will be sent a map and program with garden profiles, full addresses, opening days and times two weeks prior to the event.

Remember to bring your e-ticket with you on your phone as proof of purchase and we'll mark you off so that you won't need to show your ticket at every garden.

Important Information for Ticket holders

The Central Coast Edible Garden Trail team and the garden owners have taken all reasonable precautions to make the gardens safe for visitors. However, despite all efforts there are possible inherent dangers in all gardens, including paths, steps, walls, borders and other garden features that may present hazards. Particularly as these are working gardens developed for produce not visitors.

We would ask that when climbing, descending or crossing part of the garden, you act only within the limits of your fitness and take particular care to prevent tripping, slipping, falling, striking or colliding with objects in the trail gardens.

Please always ask about stroller access as some gardens are not stroller friendly. Children must at all times be accompanied by and under supervision of an adult. We ask that you do not bring dogs or other animals to gardens on the trail.

Garden visitors must stay on the paths at all times and must not enter areas marked “out of bounds” or obviously private.

Toilets will not be available at gardens. You can check here for the nearest public toilets - https://toiletmap.gov.au/

If, for any reason, the trail can’t go ahead on the scheduled dates, your ticket/s will be transferred to a new date, or a refund will be given.

Contact the host of Central Coast Edible Garden Trail