Singleton Edible Garden Trail 2026

Visit 7 local gardens in & around Singleton in the NSW Hunter Valley.
Chat with the gardeners to learn about techniques for growing vegetables, fruits & other edibles. Learn about gardening successes and failures, and how you can grow food in your own garden.
Choose the gardens that you want to visit and make your own itinerary for the day. Addresses and details of gardens will be sent to ticket holders a few days before the Trail.

Proudly organised by local community group Slow Food Singleton www.facebook.com/slowfoodsingleton and featuring the gardens of members.

A summary of each garden is further down this page.

Visit our hub for the day at the Singleton Community Garden (Trail ticket not required for entry here). See what's growing, chat to gardeners; the Singleton Red Cross stall will sell homemade snacks, lunches, hot & cold drinks and whole cakes & slices; learn about Slow Food Singleton, the Singleton Seed Library, the Community Garden and Landcare's Bush Tucker Garden.
Plus Red Cross will be selling plants at one of the private gardens on the Trail.

TICKETS PRICES ARE:

• $15 adult
• $30 family
• $10 Slow Food Singleton current financial member
• $5 Trail volunteers

Please purchase via the 'Get tickets' button.

Tickets will also be sold at Singleton Community Garden, Bathurst St Singleton on the day of the Trail from 10am to approx 1pm.

ACCESS TO GARDENS
You will need to provide your own transport to each garden.
Ticketholders will receive full details of the addresses, opening hours and accessiblity of each garden in the week before the Trail.
Please note that for wheelchair/mobility walker access, most would require heavy duty assistance across mowed grass, uneven ground & woodchip coverings etc.
Pets are strictly NOT allowed on the Trail, and children need to be closely supervised.
Note that Trail day will run regardless of the weather; a bit of rain doesn't deter gardeners!

A summary of the gardens:
Below are photos & descriptions of each garden (addresses & details will be sent to ticketholders a few days before the Trail).
Most of these gardens were in our previous Trails either in 2022, 2023 or 2025 although they all look different this year in a different season, and the Broke one is new to the Trail! 

1. Singleton Community Garden (open 10am to 1pm-ish)
(Note that you can visit the Community Garden & Bush Tucker garden without a Trail ticket - all other gardens will require a ticket though)

Our wonderful Singleton Community Garden on Bathurst St (near Harriet St) will be the hub for the Trail. 
Chat to the gardeners and see the extensive range of vegies growing in raised beds, their excellent composting systems and worm farms and crop rotation methods. See the separate listing for the bush tucker garden below.
Join up with the Community Garden on the day! (Only $20/yr). On any Sunday morning, come down and join in the social gardening at the Community Garden.
Slow Food Singleton will also sell tickets for the Trail and have info stalls: learn about the Slow Food movement, our local activities, our monthly Crop Swaps, the Singleton Seed Library and 'borrow' some seeds (if you are a Singleton LIbrary member) or BYO seedlings to swap! Join up with Slow Food Singleton (only $25/yr).
The Red Cross Singleton Branch will have a stall here from 10am until sold out, selling refreshments and cakes.

2. Bush Tucker Garden at Singleton Community Garden (open 10am to 1pm-ish)
(Note that you can visit the Community Garden & Bush Tucker garden without a Trail ticket - all other gardens will require a ticket though)

At the back of the Community Garden, the Bush Tucker Garden was first developed more than a decade ago, along with a Learning Circle. Last year, Hunter Region Landcare Network , with local indigenous partners, reinvigorated the garden, which hosts a variety of native and endemic bush tucker plants. Some of the plants that were established last year are now beginning to fruit. Species include: Native Finger Lime, Lilly pilly, Apple berry, Wombat berry, Blue flax lilly, Desert raisin, Lomandra, Sandpaper figs, Native raspberry, New Zealand spinach, Pig face, Salt bush amongst others. 
It is expected that there will be talks on bush tucker plants during the morning - pls check back closer to the date for details. 

3. A garden in downtown Singleton (open 10am-4pm)
Singleton Red Cross will also be selling plants from this garden.

 

This large country garden was a bare paddock almost 40 years ago. It has many fruit trees (fig, citrus, macadamia, mulberry). There are 8 wicking beds for vegetables and herbs, plus 3 other vegie patches with sweet potatoes , asparagus and berries. Compost bins, a worm farm and garden beds for roses and flowers also feature. Another interesting feature is a shallow vegetable bed above concrete water tanks that are being used as a retaining wall. There is a large native plant area, as well as Japanese mini-forests in the adjoining paddock (not accessible) to provide habitat for native animals and birds.

 4. A garden in downtown Singleton (open 10am-3pm)

The Singleton Neighbourhood Centre garden supplies their Open Door Kitchen which feeds the vulnerable in our community. It was designed and built by volunteers. The series of raised garden beds, full of vegies, is built in a small space and is designed to help maximise the use of area for food production. Their plan is to include local participation and hopefully some educational programs in the near future to assist with helping people grow their own food.

5. A garden in Singleton Heights (open 10am-4pm)

 

This almost 15 year old garden shows what can be achieved on a steep (terraced), medium sized town block. The gardener says: 'My philosophy is taken from permaculture and regenerative farming. My garden style is relaxed and informal with minimal interference and absolutely no synthetics. There are 3 small veggie beds but edible plants are mixed into all the ornamental beds also. A lot of compost is applied so plants are left to grow where they sprout. I don't fight the weeds but embrace them as ground cover and liquid carbon pathway'. There are many compost systems active all over the property (the photo being a Dr Elaine Ingham style compost). A retaining wall contains herbs, strawberries and other edibles. Not suitable for frail visitors: a steep driveway, then steep stairs without a handrail must be managed.

 6. A garden on the northern edge of Singleton (open 10am-4pm)

 

This is a small garden located on a rural-residential property near town. Their clay soil is difficult to grow in, so they have constructed 4 wicking beds (1.2m x 2.1m) in which a variety of seasonal vegetables and herbs are grown. Overhead trellises growing pumpkin, rockmelon and cucumber. It is a very water efficient garden as they have a limited water supply. 'Nothing big or fancy, just a bit of fun' says the gardener.

7. A garden in Broke (approx 30km south of Singleton) (open 10am to 4pm)

   

Margan Wines established their Kitchen Garden and Orchard in 2007. Today, the garden remains at the heart of the kitchen, with menus shaped around what is growing and ready to harvest each season. It is a truly 'garden to plate' garden, supplying its restaurant with fresh organic seasonal produce. There is an abundance of vegies and herbs (including tomatoes, cucumbers, capsicums & zucchini recently planted and cabbages and romanescas beng harvested for the restaurant). Manzanillo olives are harvested, brined & marinated; beehives support pollination while producing honey; free-range chickens provide fresh eggs and Suffolk lambs are grass-fed and free-range. Sustainable techniques are used alongside organic and biodynamic practices.

 

Questions?

If you'd like to join the organisers of this Trail, local community group Slow Food Singleton (just $25/yr) please fill out the form at https://form.jotform.com/213097318871865