Fishy’s garden grows

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Fishy’s garden grows

THE Fish Creek Community Garden was only an idea in 2009 and now is an established community asset that continues to grow.

The garden is located alongside the Great Southern Rail Trail, and features several garden beds, trees and artwork.

Dreamt up by Nadia Stefani and Jacki Dargaville, the first meeting was held to establish the garden in early 2010.

It was originally under the auspice of the Fish Creek Development Group but has since become incorporated in its own right.

In August 2013, Juneen Schulz was employed as facilitator of the garden. Ms Schulz has considerable experience in the role and is also the facilitator of Foster’s Manna Community Garden.

Ms Schulz said the support from the community for the garden was greatly appreciated.

“Quite a few locals like to donate their time or equipment and others donate things such as mulch, manure, garden beds and artwork,” she said.

“We meet at the garden once a fortnight on Friday morning from 10am to 12pm. We usually get about half a dozen people.”

Ms Schulz said they are hoping to put in a “whole heap” more garden plots, which will be wicking beds.

“Wicking beds use around 10 per cent of the water a normal garden bed would require. So we are hopeful to eventually turn all of our plots into wicking beds,” she said.

“We would like to extend the garden, and hopefully expand to orchards as well. We also hope to get more art in the garden.”

The garden has been involved in the first two years of the Tea Cosy Festival and Ms Shulz said she hopes this association continues.

“We also want to involve the primary school more in the garden, and plans for the students to create artwork on the concrete troughs are progressing,” she said.

“The garden volunteers have many ideas and plans for further developing the garden.”

 

Green thumb: Juneen Schulz from the Fish Creek Community Garden said there are plans to expand the garden in the future.

Green thumb: Juneen Schulz from the Fish Creek Community Garden said there are plans to expand the garden in the future.

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