Glover Street is the oldest community garden in Sydney. It was started around 1986 in the grounds of Rozelle Hospital, in Callan Park, Rozelle. Our emphasis is on variety. We grow vegetables, both traditional European varieties and more exotic kinds, and orchard fruit.

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We use a variety of sustainable agricultural practices. We never use pesticides and only use organic fertiliser. We mulch heavily and use carpet as a passive weed control. While not strictly speaking "permaculture", because we do weed (a lot) and modify the plantings constantly and don't grow many perenial vegetables, we are aware of permaculture techniques and strategies. One of our constantly present weeds is stinging nettle, which we have recently started to eat as a vegetable.

• Variety. Because we grow many small patches of a variety of vegetables, intermixed and companion planted, we never get a serious pest problem.
• Passive weed control. We use carpet and newspaper to suppress weeds, and lots of mulch.
• Passive pest control. Our mulch stops snails and slugs from moving around. The only pests we actively have to destroy are the stink bugs on the citrus, which we pick off and drown. Recently we left oranges on the tree for too long and they became fly blown, so we had to drown them in buckets of water.
• Predators. We have frogs and blue-tongue lizards in our garden to eat pests. Many birds visit, especially minors which pick insects off the plants, and because of the fence around the plot they feel safe from the dogs.
• Compost. We sepperate coarse and high nitrogen compost in our bins, and have a worm farm.
• Open pollinating seeds. Usually we use open varieties of heirloom vegetables, and save the seed from year to year.