Tara Murray
Are you more likely to kill your plants than be considered a green thumb?
Then the new Guide to Community Gardening in Brimbank could be the answer to helping to turn your vegetables into your next masterpiece.
The council-created guide has been created to help residents grow their own food and plants, meet other people, form meaningful connections with one another and be part of the local community.
Brimbank mayor Ranka Rasic said the council is committed to improving the health and wellbeing of our community.
“Growing food can help improve food security, promote healthy eating, increase physical activity, build community connections and enhance opportunities for sustainable living,” she said.
“That is why we have developed a new Guide to Community Gardening in Brimbank to help our residents look to the future, explore opportunities for growing food and expand their knowledge on sustainability.
“It’s a great little resource to link you with what is available and where to go for information.”
The guide provides plenty of tips on how to start a new garden, including what to consider to get you going and organisations to tap into for specific information.
It also covers growing food at school and will help children understand where food comes from, learn life-long skills in composting, caring for plants, creating healthy nutritious meals and developing sustainable habits.
Brimbank has established community gardens at the Westvale Community Centre in Kings Park and Padley Park in St Albans, while some neighbourhood houses and community centres have small food growing spaces and facilities that will be available again in the future, depending on the time of year and the programs being delivered.
To access the guide, www.brimbank.vic.gov.au/community/community-gardening-brimbank.
