Community Garden convener Geoff Rollinson said the open day attracted a good crowd with some participants likely to become community garden members.

Mr Rollinson said demonstrations of no-dig gardens by permaculture fan Carolyn Payne were popular.

Ms Payne will also give talks at the community garden about permaculture on Sunday, April 21 and the weekend of May 25-26.

Saturday’s open day featured tours every half hour, a stall selling vegetables and plants grown at the garden as well as jams, also made from produce grown at the garden.

Also on sale were sustainable crafts, some of which were made from recyclable materials.

Mr Rollinson said the open days were a way of generating more interest in the community garden that was located in a low-profile location on the corner of Grieve Street and Grafton Road near the Warrnambool racecourse.

The garden has about 55 garden plots and about 70 members. 

Members grow a wide variety of plants from vegetables to drought-resistant native plants on the 2.5ha site that was once a quarry.

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