What's it all about?

The Seaford Food Forest Community Garden is a community-driven project to establish a thriving community garden and food forest in the heart of the suburb. The food forest will extend across public areas, the pre-school and the play group, thus forming a collaborative enterprise between the pre-school staff and students, the play group parents and children and the interested members of the general public.

A food forest mixes annual and perennial food producing plants with other plants to attract insects and create a self-sustaining ecosystem called guilds, which require no chemical fertilizers, herbicides or pesticides. Food forest are a way of working with nature to create a highly efficient and productive ecosystem on either a small or large scale.

Unlike regular community gardens, where each person has their own plot, food forests are a single garden created and cared for as a collaborative activity. The Seaford Food Forest will contain both individual plots combined with a community food forest. As you walk around the garden, you are treated to a range of colours, aromas and tastes — if you choose to sample anything on the way. The food forest will provide fruit and vegetables to share, as well as a place to learn and connect.

We run monthly produce swaps at the food forest, and working bees every Sunday 10am-2pm and Friday 12-3pm. We also have a Food Is Free cart out the front of the community garden, where people can leave something on the cart in exchange for taking something from the cart, without the need for exchanging money. The produce swaps and Food is Free cart aim to build food security, build friendships and community, reduce food wastage and improve people's access to fresh, local, organically grown produce. Built for the community, by the community.

Related Keywords: organic pesticide-free community-driven

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• community garden
• community group
• food swap

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