Suffolk Park Community Garden

The space circled in red is where i think a great community garden could exist. Somewhere people can relax, garden, socialize, and eat tasty organic food.
Obviously there is a lot to consider when looking into a project like this. Such as aspect of the land - soils, flooding, sea breezes, sun direction. Then there is social community wants and needs, education, funding. Also catching and storing energy such as solar panels, and water tanks. And of coarse there is Design to ensure a productive garden.
Design concepts consider all of the above as well as what kind of garden beds would be appropriate (raised beds, herb spirals, mandala etc). Is a seed raising nursery needed and how would this fit into the design.



So iv started with researching how to turn an idea into a reality. www.communitygarden.org.au has alot of info on how to do this.
Iv started with writing up a plan to show council, i downloaded the template from the above website.



This picture is from CERES. org.au
(Centre for Education and Research in Environmental Strategies)
Iv not visit this garden yet though iv heard great things. They have an onsite CAFE, Seedling nursery, Shoppe, Aquaponics system, Education facility and market garden a couple of K's up the road.



Everyone loves to go to the farmers markets on a thursday morning. Not only does it mean you are buying local food and keeping the money local you are supporting families who farm in the area. We know its a great place to spend your morning, with buskers playing beautiful music and a good coffee. So lets continue this through to our community garden, connect the dots and keep the community alive.

Got Worms?!

Instead of a Bokashi bucket iv chosen to use a worm farm to minimize our household organic waste. It's small, takes up hardly any space and if managed properly can work really well.




The bottom tray catches the worm tea which can be watered down to make a fertilizer for the garden. while the worm castings which get left in the bottom tray are also great to add to the soil in your garden.



This worm farm is made from an old bath tub. Many people do this in their garden because you can put larger amounts of organic matter in as well as producing more worm tea, and castings, I's great to use a recycled bath tub if you have the space instead of using new resources.