Daylesford Community Food Garden: In praise of the budding, flowering earth and the community who comes together

Sunday, 11 September 2016

In praise of the budding, flowering earth and the community who comes together

About 35 people attended our September working bee. The slightly warmer weather put the town in the mood for some sweet ol' communal gardening.

Planting seedlings and weeding is always light work with many glimmering, giving peeps.

Some pretty cool specimen gardeners turned out too. Nice getup Cam!

Hello Eric and Angela, we see you there.

Meg, Alison and Zero sent the tenacious, earth-giving weeds straight to the compost bays.

Ian attended to a diseased Fuji apple tree on the street.

Taking off all the dying wood and inserting bud grafts into the spring sap.

Eric turned the compost, while Ele repatriated the worm farm.

Marcus and Lindy weeded out one of the middle beds.

While veteran plantsmen Mike and Ian met and chatted.

Young Zeph put in a goodly 2 hours with his mate Otto (out of picture), stacking up all our old timbers, ready for use when we build the toolshed.

Working and conversing is what makes community gardening so enriching. Phone numbers, ferment recipes, planting methods are swapped, clothes, plants, food are handed around...

Angela and Lindy weeded the broadband patch.

Friends of Sarah's from Melbourne plant seedlings in the front patch.

What a great session! Thanks to all who came and collaborated. Thanks to Patrick who took the pics and facilitated the bee.

See you all next month.

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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.