Recipients for the 2022 Community Garden Grants announced

Council on the Ageing ACT

Towards Zero Waste in Hughes

The Hughes Community Garden will include a composter and accessible garden beds for the local community. The composter will consume organic waste from the Hughes shopping precinct while creating organic compost, lowering carbon emissions and raising awareness of local action. Canberra’s unique urban design of small suburban hubs lends perfectly to this project which could become a model for other suburbs looking for a local/small scale solution to reducing waste and connecting community.

$7,742.00

St Vincent de Paul Society Canberra Goulburn Ltd

Good Works Garden

The Good Works Garden is a joint initiative between Dirty Janes, Argyle Housing and Vinnies, to create a community garden in the Dirty Jane’s precinct in Fyshwick. The garden will be run by volunteers and participants in the charities' social inclusion and housing programs. It will include fencing, sheds, wicking beds and a compost facility.

$7,140.00

Yeddung Mura (Goodpathways) Aboriginal Corporation

Yeddung Mura Community Reflective Vegetable Garden (Farrer)

The Community Reflective Vegetable Garden will grow and provide fresh vegetables for Yeddung Mura Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Justice Clients and their families, the local Aboriginal elders, the community group, and the general public or Indigenous Communities. Grant funding will be used to pay for a consultant to design the garden and a rainwater irrigation system.

$7,100.00

Margaret Hendry Parents and Citizens Committee Incorporated

Margaret Hendry School Community Garden

Margaret Hendry School (MHS) will establish a community garden on its grounds that is accessible for public use. The garden will consist of multiple raised beds with an interlocking hexagon design, in keeping with the school's logo. A section of the garden will be dedicated to indigenous plants to provide knowledge and awareness about this aspect of Indigenous culture.

$6,398.20

Hawker Community Landcare

Hawker Community Garden Stage 2

The Hawker Community Garden – an attractive public space where the local community can meet, engage in gardening and socialise – will be enhanced by new fruit trees, an additional raised vegetable bed, a native garden in the front of the site and a bushfood garden. The native garden serves two purposes: to beautify a currently barren space and manage urban heat. The garden will host community engagement activities including education workshops, garden busy bees and planting days, to support community ownership and connections. A future event is planned to share information with local community members about Ngunnawal people’s connection with country and use of local bushfoods.

$4,308.00

Downer Preschool Parent Association

Downer Preschool Community Garden Project

Starting in 2021, the Downer Preschool Community Garden project transformed the Preschool’s barren front yard into a sustainable community garden while also providing Preschool students with opportunities to learn from and care for the natural environment. The enhancement undertaken in this project will focus on building small-scale infrastructure to support ongoing educational and community-led activities. It will also include a yarning circle and additional vegetable gardens.

$2,255.50

YWCA Canberra

Spence Community Garden

Spence Community Garden Project aims to provide multiple benefits to local and wider communities through a range of initiatives.
As the homely Children’s Cottage is located among the Spence residences, all the attending children and families will be living in the neighbouring suburbs such as Evatt, Melba, Flynn.
The garden will have seasonal fruits, veggies, and flower seeds and will serve as a little local farm to supply/share/exchange/support fresh vegetables and plants to the community.

$2,228.00

Holy Spirit Parish, Gungahlin

Holy Spirit Community Garden - Sharing Skills to Grow a Sustainable Future

This project will create a community garden accessible to the parish, school, and wider community surrounding Amaroo. The project will enhance the school vegetable patch to set up a composting program and create wicking beds to grow produce.

$2,079.71

Canberra Organic Growers Society Inc. (Charnwood)

Raised Garden Beds

New raised garden beds will be situated near the front gate for easy access and will incorporate adjustable heights for less-able-bodied persons to grow organic food. There is already, in situ, a hard-surface access pathway along the southern fence line and there is currently one person waiting for a raised garden bed.

$1,894.20