A communal community garden based in school grounds. The garden is run on sustainable gardening principles, we work together and produce harvested is shared each day. Everyone is welcome!
mariette@senseandsustainability.com.au
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What's it all about?
The Ashwood College Permaculture Food Garden is located around 14 km South-East of Melbourne. The garden is open to everyone on Wednesday and Saturday mornings and entry is free. Volunteer gardeners are always welcome, so bring your gloves and hat and you can start! We also run courses - check out our facebook page http://www.facebook.com/groups/282125005139640/ .
We share the produce, and excess is about to go to the Parkhill Primary School food market at the end of the school day on Wednesdays.
The garden is run by the school and local community members. Our goal is both environmentally and humanly sustainable food production in an urban setting. Some of the sustainability goals that have been set out include sustainable food gardening education for all levels, zero mile food and a reduced carbon foot print for the whole neighbourhood.
The garden design is based on permaculture principles, is 2,370 square meters in size and is in the grounds of Ashwood Secondary College.
We have our own water supply (150,000 litres of tank capacity, full as of July 2012!), which is distributed through 7 taps in the garden using gravity. Mr (or Mrs) Fox visited a while ago and killed all our chickens, but we're planning bring back the chickens with additional security. We need the chickens to do our weeding and fertilising for us!
What else? We have a lovely pergola now, with an honest-to-goodness pizza oven, which is available for free to community groups. We also have a good sized shadehouse (summer)/hothouse (winter) for growing our seedlings, we have 55 fruit and nut trees in the ground and a great tool storage area.
Grass clippings are used for composting in the garden - we gratefully accept donations of fresh grass clippings to the garden - please contact Mariette on 0414 58 88 21 to arrange a convenient drop-off time. Grass clippings need to be processed preferably on the same day they are cut, so please make contact first.
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