A garden project fostering inclusive community connection | Garden Inspiration | Gardening Australia
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- čas přidán 12. 04. 2024
- The community cupboard for sharing food, sited on a Brunswick footpath, offers a good clue for what lies in the Seeds Community Garden behind the fence: inclusion, generosity and community. Subscribe 🔔 ab.co/GA-subscribe
Seeds is a garden where people living with a disability can connect with the local residents over a shared love of gardening, plants…and a cuppa.
Garden manager Jo Townsend says the garden was a bare patch of lawn nine years ago. Milparinka wanted to turn the space into something more substantial that would enrich the lives of people the service supports.
Garden club runs twice a week for people to garden together and then share food and a drink afterwards.
The garden is run along no-dig and permaculture principles. The goal is for every plant introduced to have multiple uses.
Harvests are recorded for everything that’s picked and in most years a tonne of food is grown here. The harvest is shared among the gardeners but also with the wider community, via food relief organizations and the community cupboard on the footpath.
A soup festival is held every year, which started with wanting to share a few pumpkins and has grown to hosting more than 1,000 visitors.
An exciting new addition is a food-waste dehydrator; a machine that turns vegie scraps into ready-to-go fertiliser over an 8-10 hour cycle. Already 2,000 kg of food has already been diverted from landfill since it was installed. Food waste is collected from local businesses, while the end result is delivered to schools and other community organisations.
Filmed on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country in Brunswick, Vic.
Featured plants:
Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum)
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I have a brother with severe intellectual disabilities. Programs like this are incredible and bring me to tears when I think about what a difference it would make to someone like my brother. Before Covid my brother accessed a program on a small farm where he got to spend time with farmers and community members and learn to care for different animals. I’ve never seen my brother so happy. I reckon he would enjoy the gardening one too. This is so special and exactly what we need in our country! This is also the creative and inclusive kind of thing that can be achieved when the NDIS is working properly for clients, providers, and the taxpayer. 😊❤ everyone benefits including the environment and the economy! Keep up the great work! ❤
I love this video
This does bring joy, thanks GA and Jane. I would love to be a part of that.
❤ Grandmother ❤ We love you 💐
This story brings tears of joy to me. It's a beautiful environment they've created ❤ We need many more.
Your beautiful comment sums it all up ❤️
I was thrilled to visit Seeds Community Garden back in Nov 2022, and seeing it again on this week's program brought happy tears and excitement to me!
You give me hope that our community garden can be like Seeds one day. That it is possible
What a fantastic project. Love the space they have created together - from a patch of bare lawn to a multi function environment where the whole community benefits, and is enriched. 🥰
It's good to encourage a family member to accompany * special staff for working in the garden
There needs to be MORE OF THIS, in every city and town, oh wait yeah that's right, fkn Gov Councils ect will keep that from happening, it's people doing something for themselves for almost free, on their own terms . In a right world, Community Gardens should be everywhere
What a great community project! I'd love to see similar ones dotted around the suburbs.
I'll volunteer for one around the Hawthorn area. (No Car)
What a lovely project ❤❤
My tomatoes are decimated by possums. How do they keep theirs safe 😭
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How awesome,helping the handicapped and the community 🥦🥬🌼🌹🌟🌟