The Golden Grove

The Golden Grove We are a children’s community garden in Tuggerah, on the Central Coast Wetlands. Connect. Explore. Grow

We run programs for children aged 12 months to 12 years, their families and educators.

436 families 46 weeks of programs3 roosters2 hens4 baby chicks6 rats7 pumpkins10kg of mulberries 23 cucumbers6 blueberri...
13/12/2025

436 families
46 weeks of programs
3 roosters
2 hens
4 baby chicks
6 rats
7 pumpkins
10kg of mulberries
23 cucumbers
6 blueberries
32 radishes
4 lemons
3 oranges
45 kgs of parsley
7 broccoli
128 loads of muddy washing
2 pairs of boots
2 sun hat
23 batches of play dough
8 batches of salt dough
2 loads of mulch
89 pieces of cardboard
4 birthday parties
45 kg of compost
And so much more!

How lucky we are to be able to explore this garden together.

Thank you .

I am going to be signing off for a few weeks with my family now. If you need anything, please email me at mandy@thegoldengrove.org
I’ll be back online on the 5th January to pop all the sessions live for term 1.
Merry Christmas to everyone. Enjoy the ham, passionfruit and cherry earrings. Enjoy the beach and leftover sandwiches after a swim. Enjoy the hugs and kisses and the magical lights.
Love Mandy

We are excited to pop up what our weekly offerings are for term 1, 2026. Bookings will open January 5th, to give us all ...
11/12/2025

We are excited to pop up what our weekly offerings are for term 1, 2026. Bookings will open January 5th, to give us all a little respite financially from Christmas, but enough time to know what you are doing for term 1!
We have a few changes this term which I am a little nervous, excited, tentative and curious about.
We have some epic projects for our home school garden club planned! A chicken mud cob house. Both Monday and Thursday’s group will be working on this project collaboratively.
Our Foodie Nature Play will be slightly morphing a little bit. We have always had a focus on food but there will be some zhoosh in that space. So if you have a little one “learning” about food (or a little fussy), our gentle approach might support you as a family. Mandy has worked with children and families with food for over 13 years.
We will also aim for three distinct themes over the term or go a little deeper. And, we are reducing our numbers. So if this is something you are interested in, make sure you chat with your friends about what dates you’d like to come to. Of course there is still our rhythm of oral puppetry story telling, crafts/arts, gardening and free play.
Our monthly community open days will start in February. Dates to be released in the new year.
Please share with your friends you think might like to be part of our children’s community garden. And reach out with any questions you might have.
Kindest, Mandy 🌸🍉🫜🌱💛

Are you ready to cook, play and sing? Every session at the garden involves some kind of food preparation. But these sch...
04/12/2025

Are you ready to cook, play and sing?
Every session at the garden involves some kind of food preparation. But these school holidays we are stepping it up a notch. Like our incursions into schools and OOSHs.
We’d love to see you.
We are very comfortable with all dietary requirements so please make sure you list them .
Cheers Mandy 💦 🍒🍎🍏🫜🌱🍉🍅🌸🌼🌿 🐓

⏰ UPDATE : Slightly earlier start due to the heat of the day! We are super dooper excited to invite you along to our Hom...
03/12/2025

⏰ UPDATE : Slightly earlier start due to the heat of the day!
We are super dooper excited to invite you along to our Home School Mini Christmas market on Saturday December 6th, in collaboration with

Where: .golden.grove and
Time: 9:00 to 10:30am

The children of our Monday and Thursday garden clubs have been busy creating arts and crafts, magic items, seedlings, cupcakes and sweeties, jewellery and wondrous delights.
There will be face painting, giant bubble blowing, a children’s choir, acro shows and so much more.
The gardens of both SWAMP and The Golden Grove will be open to peruse. Members of SWAMP will be on point to chat about their incredible work and lots of free play for kiddies too.
Oh we can’t wait to see you all!
A huge thank you to Leila , a talented artist in our groups, who we have known for almost 4 years now! Leila created this multimedia marketing tile for us using pencil and online mediums. Unbelievable. One to watch for sure. You can follow along with her artistic endeavours .art She just won an art award today too! 🌸💜
We look forward to celebrating Christmas in the garden with you all.
🌿🍉🍎🥦🍒🫛🍉🥒🌶️🍋‍🟩🫜

03/12/2025

A magical morning at the garden 💛🌸🌞
Our last week of sharing a little story I wrote about a Rainbow 🐟 🌈 fish…and our little fish sliding down the 90s waterslide 💦 🩵
Next week will share a new story about a Summer Christmas. And our last week for the year!!!
Our January school holiday sessions are now live and term 1 bookings will open up in January.
Thank you to Isadora, my daughter and her beautiful video 💛

My daughter is working with me this week and I asked her to observe the children and garden and come up with some little...
02/12/2025

My daughter is working with me this week and I asked her to observe the children and garden and come up with some little concepts.
Having also been my prime Guinea pig for many years , of stories, songs and cooking experiments…I think she has totally captured the essence!
Which one do you like the best? Or which one is your poppet?
🌸🍒🍉🤎🫜🌿🌞

12/11/2025

What a week thus far.
Yoghurt faces.
Sardines.
Baby chicks.
Compost experiments.
Monarch caterpillars named Molly.
And over a hundred books!!!!
Thank you to all the children, families and guides, that make all of this possible.
Note, Ourimbah campus of Newcastle University, their library is relocating to the Gosford campus. The library closes Friday 5pm. Before then, you can borrow forever, any book. Any.

This little baby chick is being held by another little bubba, who is two. The mama that is holding the human bubba and t...
11/11/2025

This little baby chick is being held by another little bubba, who is two. The mama that is holding the human bubba and the chick bubba is also holding two special little bubbas, growing in her belly.
So many bubbas in one picture 💛

I have been reminded many times this month of the importance of creating spaces for children and their families, in part...
10/11/2025

I have been reminded many times this month of the importance of creating spaces for children and their families, in particular the Mamas.
I have cried watching Borboleta tend to the chicks. Stretching her legs from sitting for hours. Desperately eating in 15 minute bursts.
And then when those eggs hatched, she was incredible. Listening to her different clucks to teach the chickens to eat, drink, come back, find her, hide from prey.
Watching the chicks warm in her feathers and wings, peering out. Climbing on her. Jumping on her.
So much love for this opportunity to experience a chicken raise their young.
The chicks will be visiting playgroup this Tuesday and Wednesday. We’d love to see you. 🐥 💛

06/11/2025

It has been a glorious few days in the garden where we have experience the whole butterfly 🦋 / cabbage moth! life cycle on our broccoli plants 🥦.
Today at our Thursday home school garden club, we shared this song, and I’d love to share it with you too. A perfect way to learn the life cycle 🌀
A butterfly, landed on a leaf 🦋 🍃
It laid an egg, then flew away.
Inside the egg, 🥚
Inside the egg,
A caterpillar was born long and hungry 🐛
It wiggled here,
It wiggled there.
And then it ate, crunch crunch.
And then it ate, crunch crunch.
And then it ate and ate and then it fell asleep 💤 shhh
And then it slept.
Shhhhh 🤫
And then it slept.
Shhhhh 🤫
And then it slept, transformed and flew away 🦋!
🦋 🥚 🍃 🐛 🦋
This song is translated from song. 🎵
Cheers Mandy 🌸💛

We are very excited to announce our first Golden Giveaway, this November.Valued at $66.99, the Golden Giveaway prize inc...
04/11/2025

We are very excited to announce our first Golden Giveaway, this November.

Valued at $66.99, the Golden Giveaway prize includes:
💛At hard cover children’s story book, At my family table. Written by
💛A brand new coloured knife
💛A voucher play session at Foodie Nature Play.
Read. Eat. Play!
What you need to do to win this Golden Giveaway is:

1. Make sure you like our page .golden.grove
2. Tag a friend (each additional tag is another entry)
3. Share the giveaway on your stories (and tag us .golden.grove and )
The winner will be drawn Sunday 9th November, 5pm and announced here on IG. If the prize is not claimed by Tuesday 11th November at 5pm, we will redraw..

This giveaway is not sponsored, endorsed or administered by Instagram nor Kiddi Kutter.

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1897 South Tacoma Road
Tuggerah, NSW
2259

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Tuesday 9am - 3pm
Wednesday 9am - 3pm

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