Newsletter - Community Garden Community Harvest - Spring ’08

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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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Editor: Russ Grayson [email protected]•

Unacknowledged articles by Russ Grayson•

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Community Harvest.

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australian Community Foods

...a web portal for people interested in healthy,

local foods, hosting:

Australian City Farms & Community Gardens•

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Australian Farmers’ Market Association•

Seedsavers’ Network •

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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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(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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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

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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•

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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.•

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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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“My name is Matt Heffernan and I havecompleted a PDC (Permaculture Design Course).

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head ofce. This is at Taren Point, near Cronulla

in Sydney’s Southern Suburbs. The business sits

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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.

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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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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.





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AUCKLAND, NELSON...community gardening has come to New

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Communication yields common direction. In Common

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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

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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

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Community gardens involve residents

in sharing in the creation, maintenance

and rewards of gardening. They

provide food, recreation and

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community. They can also promoteenvironmental awareness and provide

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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.

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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

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gardening offers a way around the alienation and

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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.

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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.




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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Future Directions

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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.

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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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...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




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




Photos:

Kate HubmayerBlack Forest primary

school, Adelaide

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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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herbs grow in shelter of windbreak

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block sunlight from

lower-growing

Open gathering areawith bark mulch for

students and visitors

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side for access to light

(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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teachers and carers

about how to enjoy and

experience the many

varieties of foods from

the school gardens

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Healthy children — luxury or myth?

Leonie Shanahan reports on her innovative school program that brings fresh food and school

gardens to the Sunshine Coast’s children




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.

Line illustrations are by Mary-Anne

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: [email protected]

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



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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