Daylesford Community Food Garden: Gardeners at the NYE parade

Saturday, 5 January 2013

Gardeners at the NYE parade

Perfect weather brought out forty or so gardeners with our wheelbarrows, bikes, scooters, pitchforks, horns, bells and kazoos for this year's Daylesford NYE Parade. We were dressed by the Daylesford Community Op Shop or our own creative frugality.

Tia and Jeremy won a prize for their fantastic costumes (especially the carved watermelon helmet with DCFG initials – Gold!)

Peter O'Mara painted us a beautiful banner which we showed off with great pride. Thanks Pete!

Larch Trumpetvine and Nick Sara went tandem as alligators. Every garden needs two.

Scarecrow Kate Gerritsen, Lindy Churches and a cohort of garden nymphs led us down the main drag.

Children danced or lay in a moveable manger while gumbooted Meg and Sarah stomped the beat.

Sharonne's horn and Patrick's straw dance sprayed the crowd.

And community gardener Ian Robertson spent the night busily photographing us. Thanks Ian!

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Daylesford Community Food Gardeners are a diverse community group who are auspiced by the Daylesford Neighbourhood Centre (DNC). Everyone is invited to participate. Please get involved by joining our regular monthly working bees or garden in your own time.

For general information contact DCFG representative Patrick Jones.

We meet on the second Saturday of each month from 10am-12 noon at the Albert St garden (beside the Daylesford Library) where we grow annual food plants. Less occasionally we meet at Rea Lands Park (42 Raglan Street), our community orchard and herb bank. Intermittently we assist with food production at DNC and we support Hepburn Health Service with planting edibles and flower gardens for patients to enjoy. We auspice the Bridport Street bus stop beautification project, we have designed a 5 acre food forest at Daylesford Secondary College (which awaits inspired people to see this large project to fruition), and we also work on the community food garden at the Daylesford Community Reserve.

Patrick Jones is the archivist for this blog, so please contact him for any blog related matters.

Across all our gardens we're committed to establishing a community food system enabling free, just, and organic food. We will however except uncertified and conventional ag food waste to create our dynamic composts. We recognise that gardening together is of great social and ecological value and that community gardening is 'social warming' in an era of global warming.