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inside...It’s an urban food revolution ............................ 3Way down south ............................................... 6A short walk in small vegetative paradise ...... 8Sydney community gardeners’ big day out ... 11A new policy enables community gardening 12Calendar team seeks support ........................ 15
What’s news ...................................................... 16Community gardening in New Zealand ......... 18Big year for Cultivating Community ................ 22Fresh food markets in public housing .............. 24Food localisation .............................................. 25School gardens ................................................. 28Tasty readings .................................................. 34
Ct HARVesTAustralian City Farms & Community Gardens Network — building local food cultures — SPRING 2008
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Cover photo: Cringila primary students with tamarillos.Behind: Care Design’s Aaron Sorensen and New Zealand permaculture educator, Robina McCurdy
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Editor: Russ Grayson info@pacic-edge.info•
Unacknowledged articles by Russ Grayson•
Designer: Fiona Campbell•
All text and images remain the copyright of their
authors/producers unless otherwise stated.All care taken but no responsibility accepted for
the consequences of trying anything described in
Community Harvest.
www.communitygarden.org.au
austral ian city farms & community gardens network
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australian Community Foods
...a web portal for people interested in healthy,
local foods, hosting:
Australian City Farms & Community Gardens•
Network — nd-a-community-garden
Australian Farmers’ Market Association•
Seedsavers’ Network •
Grassroots & Community Supported•
Agriculture
Co-ops, Cafes, & FarmGate sales.•
www.cf.c.
Hand out the seeds and hand tools because there’s something in the air...
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austral ian city farms & community gardens network
CERES Organic Market...where it's OK to LOVE your fruit and veg
Every Wednesday and Saturday —9am to 1pmCERES Organic Market plays a vital role in Melbourne’s local food network. The market sells freshly
harvested produce from our own market garden and the social food enterprises we support, and
we share food mile info about all of our produce. Each week, in all weather, we sell the best local
produce from small, sustainable and local growers and backyard producers around Melbourne. A
vibrant atmosphere with live music and craft stalls, the market is the centre of our food network.
At CERES Market and Shoppe you can get:
sensational local organic sourdough breads and pastries•
bulk organic and biodynamic wholefoods•
cleaning products for your home and body (greywater friendly)•
fairtrade coffees, teas and Australian chocolates•
Biodynamic wines and organic spirits•
fresh vegetables, herbs and fruit•
CERES famous fresh laid eggs... and more.•
The Urban Orchard
CERES Farm is the pioneer of the Urban Orchard project where excess fruit from local backyards is
traded, donated or given away at the CERES Organic Market each week. The project counts over
140 households as members and aims to minimise organic food waste, reduce food miles and
promote locally grown backyard produce.
Perth City Farm
Organic Growers’ market
WHEN: Saturdays 8am till noon.
WHERE: East Perth City Farm, East Perth.
WHY: To bring you the best produce at a good price...
tasty, tangy, terric food
INFORMATION: www.cityfarmperth.org.au
new resource for local food educators...
think global: eat local
SEED International’s short video is an energising way
to introduce training on food issues and the values of
local food.
Producers, Morag Gamble & Evan Raymond, have
travelled far to document the many innovative
initiatives in local food systems. This is a greatresource for educators and local food advocates.
ORDER YOUR COPY: www.localfood.net.au
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Aaron Sorensen and New Zealand community catalyst and permaculture educator, Robina McCurdy, in the forest garden.
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Clumping bamboo and bananas are just a couple of themany species in the forest garden. Bamboo can be cut for
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Robina checks out the prolic comfrey in a vegetable bed.Note the explanatory sign indicating uses for the plant.
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(top left) Aaron explains one of the art works that dot the community garden.
(top right) Aaron lifts the lid on a liquid compost. Used olive barrels make
cheap and effective liquid compost and rainwater storage containers.
(above) An old children’s cubby is now the community garden’scommodious chook house.
(left) Comfrey edge andcoppiced native trees.
(below) Garden signageis educational andinformative.
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Council by the editor of Community Harvest will enable the
expansion of community gardening in the municipality...
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Effective community gardeningParticipant’s ideas on what makes effective community gardening...
A council sustainability educator listed as the main
contributors to effectiveness:
strong leadership in the garden•
gardeners who know what they are doing•
good design•
gardening knowledge.•
A council waste education coordinator and
community garden liaison cited the example of
Wooloomooloo Community Garden in Sydney Place
as an example of garden effectiveness. The City of
Sydney designed and constructed the garden toreplace an earlier, small community garden sited
adjacent to the Eastern Suburbs rail viaduct, and
continues to provide support.
Factors observed that contribute to effectiveness
include:
the importance of competent organisation•
democratic and participatory group structure•
commitment•
the ability to deal with issues through an informal•
conict resolution process
having a management plan for the garden.•
A North Shore local government Bushcare ofcer,
responsible for a community garden, listed as critical
to effectiveness:
democratic process•
allowing gardeners to be heard•
giving them the freedom to try things•
learning by the gardeners•
the development of interpersonal relationships•
sharing of a common space•
the feeling of being supported.•
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stakeholder participation in decision making•
having good process•
exibility•
providing training to new gardeners•
willingness to compromise•
adopting roles for participants — gardeners•
sometimes nd that they like doing a particular
activity and making it possible for them to do this
is helpful to the functioning of the garden.
A one-time participant in the now-disbanded UNSW
Permaculture Community Garden, now with the
Randwick Community Organic Garden, stressed the
importance of the community garden’s constitution
as contributing to the effective management of the
enterprise.
“It is important to the resolution of disputes and how
things get done”, she said
Structure is important to Glovers Community Garden
in Rozelle. The community garden’s largely shared
structure (they are only now starting allotments) wascited as the means of maintaining the effectiveness
of the garden as people come and go.
A member of the new community garden group in
Manly local government area listed as components of
effectiveness:
democratic process•
a focus on the social aspects of the garden•
a regular commitment by members•
good garden aesthetics.•
tHe value oF PoliCy
In the late 1990s, prior to amalgamation with City of Sydney, South Sydney Council
produced what was probably Australia’s rst local government policy on food
security, What’s Eating South Sydney.
The policy promised council support for food cooperatives, sources of fresh
food and community gardens. It was due to the policy that council cooperated
with Department of Housing and UNSW School of the Built Environment in the
development of the Waterloo Estate community gardens.
Much of that expertise — rst developed by community worker and council waste
coordinator, Rhonda Hunt, and then by Micheal Neville, now City of Sydney Waste
Education Coordinator — travelled with Michael to the City upon amalgamation.
Policy directions for community gardening
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Calendar team seeks support
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“My name is Matt Heffernan and I havecompleted a PDC (Permaculture Design Course).
“I have just nished a food garden at Toyota’s
head ofce. This is at Taren Point, near Cronulla
in Sydney’s Southern Suburbs. The business sits
is on about ve acres (about two hectares) of
a reclaimed tip, previously mangrove swamp I
expect, that now has very impressive ornamental
gardens created by the landscaping company.
“I submitted a proposal for a food garden next to
their cafeteria, which they accepted.
“There is about 35sq m of culinary herbs, citrus,
gs and some annuals. The kitchen staff are using
and enjoying the garden.
“This summer, I hope to ll spaces and trees with
travelling curcubits to impress even the most
stied executive. If all goes well, ultimately, the
garden will provide all fruit and veges for their
cafeteria.
“Toyota believes the food garden ts in well with
their long term objective, which is to create zero
waste from their entire business process — eg
biodegradable dashboards, recyclable panels.
“They are trialing a biodigester using their kitchen
waste. Wastes are collected in a digester via the
kitchen, removed by truck and used to generate
clean energy through methane. So, as a motor
car company, they are aware of where things
are headed.
“I also contract to Optus, which has a huge
green space that has me thinking”.
Kind regards,
Matt Heffernan, Garden Feast
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CERES goes local at farmers’ market
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What’s news...
austral ian city farms & community gardens network
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in sydney’s urBan West
T
he Holroyd Community Garden is located at 73
Fullagar Road, in Wentworthville (western Sydney),as part of Lytton Street Park. It is a little difcult to nd
as it is actually behind the tennis courts and Lapidary
Club, so to gain access people need to walk down
along side the canal and then they will not miss it.
The garden is on land owned by the Holroyd Council
but has been given over to the Cassia Community
Centre to develop and administer. It has been in
existence since 2003 but it is only since June that
progress has been made and the garden has got off
the ground. In terms of a lot of community gardens,
the area is quite large, spanning 1600 sq meters.
We have established a native garden area with
plants donated by some of the large wholesalenurseries in Sydney and have now moved on to
establishing the vegetable plots. There are also plans
for a formal orchard nursery, raised vegetable plots
to accommodate disabled people and a pergola in
which we intend to conduct workshops.
The long-term vision for the garden is to have it open
at least twice a week for local community groups, the
local school and disabled groups in the area.
Contact details are: Cassia Community Centre.
P: 9688 3215 or 0425 306003
Lynne McLaughlan, Community Garden Coordinator.
When in Brisbane...
NortheyStreetCity Farm orGaniC GroWers’
market
Sundays...
6:00 am — 10:30 am
all the old favourite stalls•
extra new stalls•
hot coffee, chai, breakfast, treats at the•
City Farm’s Chai Cafe
City Farm’s• Edible Landscapes nursery
lots of bike racks & parking•
certied organic produce & products•
walk around the City Farm... fruit,•
vegetables, chooks, market garden,
water tanks, unusual crops... visit Breakfast
Creek’ mangroves... there’s lots of
inspiration for you and your children.
Find us at NORTHEY STREET, Windsor... coming from the city along Lutwyche Road,
cross Breakfast Creek bridge and turn next left into Northey Street.
austral ian city farms & community gardens network
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18 www.communitygarden.org.auSPRING 2008 — Communi ty HARVEST
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More information: Strickland Street Community Garden: ssgardens@paradise.net
WELLINGTON, CHRISTCHURCH,
AUCKLAND, NELSON...community gardening has come to New
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Communication yields common direction. In Common
Ground Community Garden, a sign protected from the
rain communicates the garden’s needs to gardeners.
Common Ground gardeners salvaged used roong ironto make this practical, weatherproof storage shed. With
its multi-colour panels, it looks like an artwork.
AOTEROA/NEW ZEALAND
Common Ground story next page...
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Rowan, Common Ground’s coordinator.
Allotments with shadecloth windbreaks and, in thebackground, the shed made by the gardeners.
It’s really windy at Common Ground, and strong winds damagevegetables and herbs. A polycarbonate windbreak erected to
keep the winds from an allotment. Note the allotment’s sturdy timber wall.
AOTEROA/NEW ZEALAND
IF THERE’S ONE THING YOU NOTICE
about Common Ground Community Garden, it’s the windbreaks. They’re there
for a good reason — the winds pour down
the gorse-covered slopes above to roar
through the garden on their way to the
valley below.
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Community gardens involve residents
in sharing in the creation, maintenance
and rewards of gardening. They
provide food, recreation and
therapeutic opportunities for a
community. They can also promoteenvironmental awareness and provide
community education.
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neighbourhood communal gardening
venture, growing vegetables, fruit and/
or flowers.
COMMUNITY GARDENING is a book of documentary
style photographs that capture the people who work
Christchurch’s community gardens as well as the
gardens themselves.
Published by the Christchurch Community Garden’s
Association, the black and white images in the 38
page book were made for the Community Gardening
exhibition that toured the city’s community venues
and public libraries in 2006.
The book displays the work of photographer, Stephen
Trindler. In their accompanying text, Christine Blance
(who manages the Strickland Street Community
Garden) and Ross Paterson write that community
It uses vacant or unspecified open space
— either in the public domain or owned by another organisation or business (for
example by a church or through a public
housing body).
Community gardens may have an
explicit gardening philosophy such
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biodynamic gardening, or they may
allow participants with individual plots
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also establish nurseries to propagate and
raise seedlings for their gardeners.
Positive move for city government
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seem to need”, writes Christine. “It’s to do with
authenticity, a demonstration of hard work and thevalue of work, creating a good relationship with
neighbours... (the gardens) give a sense of security”.
The writers explain how community gardens were
established throughout the city in the 1980s, mainly
as “spontaneous localised actions” to satisfy social
needs. Another motivation was to provide access
to healthy and affordable food. More gardens have
been started in recent years, bringing the total in
Christchurch to 14. Documentary photography, as
in this book, is a genre with the potential to write
community gardening into the historic record of our cities. We need more of it.
Community Gardening ; 2006; Christchurch
Community Gardens’ Association. ISBN 0 473 10909 3.
AOTEROA/NEW ZEALAND
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Information
Hawkes Bay Food Trail: www.savourhawkesbay.co.nz
Hawkesbury food Trail: www.hawkesburyharvest.com.au
Sydney gardener, Matthew McLennan and local organic gardener, Sister Loyala (Sisters of Compassion,Wellington) discuss things horticultural while leaning on
a Common Ground Community Garden windbreak
AOTEROA/NEW ZEALAND
Idea... Not enough space for a community
garden? Why not grow it vertically? Vertical garden by Terry Bail, Archology.
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The year 2007 was a big one for Melbourne’s Cultivating Community, the Victorian end
of the Australian City Farms & Community Gardens Network. President Pam Varcy outlines the accomplishments...
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Community gardens in public housing
Future Directions
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Farewell Garden of EdenIt was with great sadness that Garden of Eden Inc
was disbanded.
CC had an excellent relationship with this
organisation and we are very grateful to them for
their donation of two laptop computers and one PC,
plus a donation of nearly $6000.
This paves the way for CC to become directly
responsible for the planning and construction of
garden upgrades.
Thanks to the work of Amadis Lacheta and crew for making Garden of Eden a memorable place.
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Download the full Cultivating Community Annual Report
2007 from: www.communitygarden.org.au
Photo: The community garden network and SEED International’sMorag Gamble (www.SEEDinternational.com.au) takes a long,
last walk down the path at Garden of Eden
very colourful scarecrows made by individual
gardeners and the life-size photos of many of the
gardeners added a festive feel to the garden;
congratulations must go to Ailsa, Esther and the
other volunteers
once again,• Housing Week was celebrated in the
various gardens with many different activities
this last twelve month period has seen a major •
challenge for gardeners with the drought and
severe water restrictions being imposed; many of
the gardeners have struggled with watering their plots by carting buckets of recycled water from
their ats; Yarra Valley Water and City West Water
granted CC exemptions to allow a change of
watering times in many of the gardens
after much consultation and collaboration, a•
new set of Garden Rules and Guidelines has been
developed and ratied by DHS providing stability
across all gardens.
CC continues to support and maintain
twenty community gardens on public
housing states:
social events• such as outings, barbeques and
arts projects provide positive experiences for the
gardeners
thewood-fredoven• in the Fitzroy Community
Garden is getting lots of use
in September, Flemington Estate Community•
Garden celebrated its frstbirthday; this has reallybeen a wonderful success story after all the delays
in its redevelopment
this year, CC opened a community garden to the•
public through Australia’s Open Garden Scheme;
it was Flemington’s turn and highlights over the
weekend included cultural dancing and singing,
the availability of a variety of food and drinks
and garden tours led by Penny Woodward; the
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The Rainbow Region Community Farms crew
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Dr Leigh Davidson, conference organiser, organic grower,
pioneering intentional community resident
local food systems go north
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A few words says it all... food that has takenthe road less travelled
local food systems go north
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...clbratg 25 yeARsf sCHooL GARdeninGat Ala’Black frt prarHERE ARE SOME PICS from our schoolgardens 25th birthday celebration.
Malcolm Campbell judged the pumpkincompetition (above) and we invited thevolunteers who started the garden 25years ago. They were really happy tosee it still going strong.
I’ve got plans to extend the garden alittle to make room for more fruit trees
and chooks.
Cheers...Kate Hubmayer
Black Forest Primary School, Adelaide Australian City Farms & Community Gardens Network state contact
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The logistics of gardening with...
Junior primary children
Kate Hubmayer teaches at Adelaide’s pioneering Black Forest Primary, where she makes
use of the school’s long-established food garden as a teaching resource.
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Soup’s on at Black Forest’s 25 celebration
gardening our school grounds
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Photos:
Kate HubmayerBlack Forest primary
school, Adelaide
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…Kate Hubmayer
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IN THE NSW ILLAWARRA, those clever folk from Care Design — Dan Deighton and Aaron
Sorensen — have set up four educational food gardens in local schools. The Cringila
primary garden is one of these, and it demonstrates the commonsence of good design for
learning.
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(top of page) a sitting circle — a good idea in any school
garden.
(right) in vertical structure,the Cringila school garden
is like the forest with groundlayer, middle layer and
canopy height plants.
creative
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Leonie trains students,
teachers and carers
about how to enjoy and
experience the many
varieties of foods from
the school gardens
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Leonie Shanahan reports on her innovative school program that brings fresh food and school
gardens to the Sunshine Coast’s children
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Edible reading
for school garden mavens
Outdoor Classrooms — www.outdoorclassrooms.com.au
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Innovative, practical and affordable...
CC’s Edible Classroom Program Cultivating Community’s Edible Classroom consultancy service provides Melbourne
schools with dbl and pl assistance in designing, building, planting and
maintaining food gardens.
Outdoor Classroomsauthors Carolyn
Nuttall (left) and Janet Millington.
Carolyn wrote ‘AChildren’s Food Forest’ — the book that help
launch food gardens as
educational venues. See next page).
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Topics include the experience of
the Seville Road outdoor-indoor
classroom, making an organic
school garden, choosing a site
and getting started, keeping
school chickens, curriculum
planning, children’s play and
more.
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Cotter.
1996, Nuttall C; A Childrens’ Food
Forest; FeFL Books, Wollongabba.ISBN 0 646 29482
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A book of worksheets designed
to assist teachers and students
create a food garden in their
schoolground, the A4 size book
provides practical know-how as it
educates.
Illustrations: Mary-Anne Cotter.
2003, Nuttall C; The Food Forest Resource Sheets; FeFL Books,
Highgate Hill, Qld. ISBN 1 875 640 428.
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Entitled Seed to Seed Food
Gardens in Schools, the book is
aimed at teachers and parents.
It describes the establishment of
food gardens that are biodiverse,
organic and waterwise and that
use a low input approach to the
full plant cycle, from seed to seed.
Chapters include the rationale
for gardens in schools, planning,
planting and maintaining,
harvesting and eating from the
garden. And, of course, how to
save seeds. A printed copy with
black and white photos sells for
$20, post paid. Alternatively,
download the free, full colour pdf
le: www.seedsavers.org
more tasty reading
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Drawing on her experience in
working with school children to
prepare and cook what was
grown in the school garden, this
is a large format publication of
Stephanie Alexander’s recipes.
2006, Alexander S; Kitchen GardenCooking; Penguin, Camberwell.ISBN 13: 978 1 920989 49 1
Community Gardening
in SA
All you need to know about
starting a community garden from
the South Australian community
garden network crew. The ideas
in the manual are applicable in
states other than South Australia.
See www.communitygarden.org.
au to download a copy.
Northey Street City
Farm Training Manual
For community garden trainersand learners, all you need to learn
about community gardening.
Distilled from the experience of
the Northey Street City Farm crew
in Brisbane. Info: Northey Street
City Farm, 16 Victoria street,
Windsor 4030.
E: northey@bigpond.net.au
www.northeystreetcityfarm.org.au
Gg s
C GgFaith Thomas’ manual for the
City of Sydney, which supports 23
community gardens.
www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au
Starting in Community
Gardening
What you need to know to start
a community garden... the online
guide by Russ Grayson.
www.communitygarden.org.au
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In inner-urban Sydney, the small Greg Hewish Memorial Community Garden provides allotments for nearby residents, many living in adjacent public housing. Solidbrick, raised garden beds provide easy access and,combined with well-made paths, make for a low-maintenance garden.
At Brisbane’s Northey Street City Farm, a raised vegetable
bed made of durable galvanised iron and timber providesaccess for less-agile gardeners. The Edible LandscapesNursery and one of the City Farm’s many rainwater tanksare seen in the background.
As well as the city’s premier sustainability education centreoffering training to the community, ranging from nationally
accredited courses in permaculture design to one day workshops, Northey Street City Farm’s edible landscape,community gardens and market garden is an easy placeto get lost in.
Signage lls an educational role in community gardens.The design, thoughtful wording and attractiveness of signs
rewards visitors, who gain insight into the design and theinstallations found in the gardens (photo at Northey Street City Farm).
Food amongst the towers of a public housing estate... Solander Community Garden, Waterloo, inner-Sydney.
Fiona Campbell checks out a twining art work during anearly Spring visit to Perth City Farm. The farm provides
training to TAFE students and labour market programs andoperates a weekly organic farmers’ market
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