Wednesday 28 May 2014

What Do You Want Your Community Garden To Be?

I know, quite along winded title but it's a question I want everyone to think about? What do you want your community garden to be?

For us who regularly attend, I can say on behalf of all that it's about friendship and being able to garden effectively. It's a place that brings connection through a passion for gardening and nature.

It's truly an amazing place and with recent groups such as Early Years Care who come along and enjoy the space, it makes it an even more valuable and special place for the extended community.

As I express what the garden means to me I want you to think about what it means to you.

The most obvious thing about a garden is the planting, growth and the harvest of food and plants. However, there are other things that grow as a by product such as, friendship, learning new skills, eating well, creativity of many kinds and a sense of joy to be alive.

One of the creative things that have grown organically within the space is the idea of performing a pantomime. What the heck??? Non of us are experts in the field of performing but we are going to give it a go. See what I mean? We have nurtured a can do attitude!

For me personally, I have enjoyed the freedom to paint, create, sing a song, build teepee's, mosaic, watch other people cook, make friends and have my world enlarged.

My vision is to see the space become an out door class room for many different groups for all ages. I would love to start getting people engaged with creative activities or maybe it can be a space where people can picnic and have a rest from what ever bothers them. Community gardens are awesome and I greatly encourage others to be involved and to hopefully show how not only is it about gardening but it's so much more if you let it

We often eat well

And the creativity is shared


and we have our community groups













Thursday 22 May 2014

Barbecue

It's been quite a while since I've written about the goings on at the garden and since the BBQ slab went down it's been a slow and steady journey to get our BBQ ready for use.

We were able to obtain a lovely brickie who gave his time and service for free to help us achieve our BBQ goal.

As time has ticked on there has been much discussion and a lot of hard work and attention, especially from Cliff.

Cliff added this tile BHCG
Thanks Cliff

Cliff had to get a hot plate cut to fit the BBQ and this is us testing it. We had to adjust the chimney as it wasn't drawing correctly. Those little foil things are stuffed spaghetti squash courtesy of the garden and Darren's cooking skills.

After months of watching others contribute to the BBQ, I decided it was my turn to add my bit.
Move over, it's mosaic time.


All I need to do now is grout it. 
Many thanks to Cliff for his extensive collection of tiles that he willingly donated, for if it wasn't for those tiles this wouldn't have been completed in three days. (it could have taken months).