How does your garden grow?

Today a group of year 8 students from Daylesford Secondary College had an excursion to Rea Lands Park. As a DCFG rep, Patrick met the students on site and gave them a rundown of the park's history and a plant-by-plant tour of what's currently growing there and what a political act it is to take responsibility for one's own food.

It was a perfect spring day and the park was buzzing with colour,

love,

flute playing canines,

and chubby cherubs.

From Rea Lands Park the tour continued on to the Albert Street garden

where the students tried and tasted everything in sight.

They were particularly enamoured by the chocolate mint growing in the bath at the front. It's perfect steeped in boiling water and then drunk chilled on a warm arvo.

Have you tried it yet?

Some dates for your diaries

DCFG is conducting a productive gardens tour by foot next Saturday, 2 June as part of the Good Life Festival. We leave from the Albert Street community garden. It is a free event, all welcome; a 2-3 hour walk visiting three productive backyard gardens.

The beautiful persimmon fruits behind the library are turning colour and nearly ready for picking. Persimmons are best eaten almost bletted, in other words very, very over ripe.

Peter O'Mara's buzzy sign has attracted many bags of leaves since the last working bee. We'll be able to conduct another compost workshop on Saturday June 9, the next working bee.

Speaking of which we need to attend to some weeding and composting at the Rea Lands Park community garden. So keep an ear/eye out, next working bee (June 9) might be held at Rea Lands, which is where we'll conduct the composting workshop.