This Saturday, Keilor’s Horseshoe Bend Community Group (HBCG) members are getting their hands dirty with a working bee, and need all the help they can get.
The group, which recently secured a $5000 volunteer grant from the state government, is getting to work with sights set on a community garden.
The funding has been put towards purchasing new equipment and facilitating educational programs for volunteers.
Member Lazar Golijanin said every bit of help is appreciated.
“At the moment we are just trying to get the garden beds ready to go… and we are having meetings at the working bees about our next moves,” he said.
“For years, the area we look after had been neglected, there were weeds growing everywhere, so we have stepped in to manage it.”
The group has room to plant eight new trees, and has an existing orchard, with plans to grow out the community garden and donate produce to Foodbank.
There is an upcoming annual general meeting on Monday, August 12 at 7pm, and the group is looking for new committee members to join.
The next working bee is this Saturday, August 3, from 9am until 1pm, at 113 Horseshoe Bend Main Drive, Keilor.
Details: info@horseshoebendcg.org, or horseshoebendcg.org/home
Gerald Lynch
