Garden Insights + Share Table

Garden Insights - The Foxes

owned by Steve and Julie Fox

Sunday 2 November 2025

2.00 pm - 4.30 pm

5 Kiln Street, Grantham, Q 4347

This event is organised by Permaculture Toowoomba Inc.

Bookings are Essential

Bookings are essential so that we have contact details and know how many will be attending.

What We'll Do

We’ll start at 2.00 pm with a welcome and introduction. We like to visit a range of different gardens, each as unique as the gardeners who live there. It's wonderful to see the diverse garden styles, approaches, and plants that can be grown in our bioregion.

This month we'll visit The Foxes, at Grantham.

What We'll See

Swales and Berms with food forest type aims.
Shade house with potting shed.
Fenced veggie garden with 20 wicking beds.
Herb & succulent gardens.

The Story Behind the Garden (a few words from Steve and Julie)

We moved from WA to QLD in October 2021 into Gatton Helidon Rd but sustained heavy flooding in Feb 2022. Re-located to Grantham in April 2023 to a very blank canvas.

Our inspiration was to provide as much food as possible whilst growing for the future as well. With very poor soil and steep slopes we put in swales to catch rain and berms for trees, planting over 100 plants, an assortment of natives and edible mostly from rootstock.

We have been super impressed with the crops we have grown and variety of food grown. We then built a shade house with potting shed attached and veggie garden with wicking beds. Learnt to preserve food, make kombucha, sourdough bread and make soaps from the garden excesses.

We originally moved from UK in 2007 to Perth where we lived for 14 years after COVID and Steve’s cancer diagnosis to be nearer our two daughters who live in QLD and Victoria.

Afternoon Tea (provided)

A light afternoon tea will be provided (including Gluten Free and Vegan options).

What to Bring

KeepCup or similar for your drink at afternoon tea (we're trying to minimise waste)
Chair
Water Bottle
Sun protection
Clothes and footwear suitable for outdoor weather conditions
Donations of surplus produce for the Share Table

Share Table

Do you have surplus?

We encourage you to bring your surplus produce, plants, seeds, books, craft supplies, and resources to share with others at our events.

Some ideas of what you could bring include – fruit, vegetables, herbs, eggs, honey, milk, jams, pickles, preserves, jars, ferments, starters, SCOBYs, seeds, plants, seedlings, cuttings, tubers, pots, tools, gardening magazines, permaculture books, recipes, patterns, manure, coffee grounds, compost additives, worms, mealworms, wool, fabric, craft supplies, soap, natural cleaning products, plastic alternatives, produce bags – the list is extensive.

Please bring whatever you can and then take home whatever you need within our culture of generosity and free sharing

Directions from Toowoomba

From Gatton Helidon Road, turn down either William St or Railway street. Go under the railway bridge and turn right on Victor St, past the Butter Factory and Gatton School. Follow the road around the tight left bend and take first right onto Phillips Road. Take first exit from roundabout onto Ditchmen Road past the park and turn left onto Tryhorn Street, 2nd left onto Turnbull Street, right onto Singh Street, which after a tight right hand turns into Kiln Street. We are the 2nd shared driveway in the left with a Fox Letterbox.

Parking

Park anywhere on the grass on the left and side up the hill!.

Access

Suitable access for wheelchair and prams, as ramp access into house and bathroom, but a lot of gravel on driveway etc.

Children are always welcome with very close adult supervision for their safety.

We hope we see you there!

Cost

Financial Members of Permaculture Toowoomba Inc. - Free
First-time Visitors to a Permaculture Toowoomba Inc. Event - $10 per person
Non-Members - $20 per person
Children attending with an Adult - Free (but please book so we know the total numbers)

Membership

Annual Membership of Permaculture Toowoomba Inc. is due by 31 December each year. It's only $30 per person or $25 for a second or subsequent adult living in the same home (for part year until December 2025).

If you join now, membership is valid for until the end of 2025.

Members can attend all events and workshops during the year at no cost. You can pay your membership at checkout when you book to attend this event.

Please complete a Membership form which will be available at the event for anyone wishing to join, or available here for download at http://www.permaculturetoowoomba.com.au/membership/