Community Gardens
The Community Development team, work with and support groups to develop community gardens
Cultivating green thumbs
- Learn how to produce and grow food
- Learn and try out different foods and flavours!
- Learn about the seasonality of the garden cycle.
- Learn environmentally friendly practices to encourage biodiversity.
- Trial and error of growing different things and learn different ways of doing things.
- Participate in training skills development workshops
Why Participate?
The Benefits
- Provides us with a healthy environment for positive mental and physical health.
- Participants have a better appreciation of their community and environment.
- Community gardens are available to people on a tight budget.
- Participants have the opportunity to communicate with others, work in a team, share and enjoy a healthy environment.
- It is a natural environment for discussion, sharing and learning about, e.g. ‘how humans relies on the environment to survive?’, ‘what can we do locally to support our environment?’
- Participants bring their learning home and to the wider community.
- Support community clean ups in gardens and wider community
