COME AND ADOPT YOUR COMMUNITY GARDEN ON THE SOUTH SIDE
You may know about the Northbank Community Garden but not about the Community Garden at the Crown Street entrance to the High School. Or you may have heard about it and think it belongs to the School. Well it does … in the daytime during the week … but it also belongs to us in the Community during the evenings and at weekends. We share it.
Some funding was obtained from the Environmental Trust and we engaged Charlie Brennan to project manage the construction of the garden on land the school was happy to allocate to it. Charlie has done a wonderful job, as we knew he would, and the garden is now looking quite established.
There are raised beds, strip beds, and a central circular area with paths through it. There is a shed equipped with a range of necessary tools and supplies. There is a pizza oven and a picnic table and a hydroponics shed alongside the garden. The vegetables planted are of course seasonal – a broad range of them – with plenty of herbs and also perennial vegetables, including some less known ones like cassava, amaranth, perennial squash thai eggplant and many varieties of sweet potatoes.
We have a small committee, open to anyone keen to join us. At least one of us aims to be at the garden every Wednesday evening from 5 – 7pm to introduce anyone new to it, open the shed, do some maintenance work etc. But you’re welcome any evening or weekend to come and sticky-beak and get some produce to take home. In exchange, we just ask that you help out whenever you can with the work it takes to maintain the garden (about 10 hours a week in total). From time to time – like now, after heavy rain, or when new seasonal planting is due – we set up working bees to clear beds, make new ones, plant anew…
We’ve set the next Working Bee date for Sunday March 17th from 3pm.
We’ll have some food and drink and we’d love you to join us there to enjoy some digging and open air … hoping of course that it won’t rain. If it does, we’ll notify you of a new date as soon as possible afterwards. Just look for us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bellingen-Community-and-High-School-Garden/128326590578311
Or if you have any questions, phone 0401225654. We look forward to you joining us!
