St Lucia Community Garden

 An awesome weekend. . .

Thanks go first to Rusty Gammon for pretty much everything shed, and to Don Begbie (Prez of Cubberla-Witton Catchment Group) for water tank procurement. And then to every one of  The Sunday Crew for putting it all together . . . Their four hours of pretty hot weekend work paid off.

Next up for the CG are starting the wildflower meadow, finishing flattening the mighty mulch mountain and making proper progress with the Garden Committee…

We are now pretty much out of disposable cash at hand, so every cent raised from now on becomes doubly precious.

The Lower Terrace is still looking viable for post July. At the spend rate we have achieved to date we can fill the Terrace with our raised growing beds (yielding 80-100 sq m of growing area) if Walter Taylor Ward grants us $15k in 2021 as Clr Mackay has indicated he wants to do.

The pending BCC Community Compost Hub should be up and running by January 2021, and we expect to ask BCC Parks to remove the temporary construction fencing around the Garden site by the end of November as well. 

We may decide to add a “temporary” low fence (perhaps in bamboo or split cane) between the Hillstone car park and the Community Garden (running alongside and attached to the existing post and rail fence) to indicate where we start, and to discourage interlopers.

So much done already, the Garden Committee to get up and running (candidates, do get in touch) and all of 2021 to plan.