Australia: Guerilla gardening: The leafy oases popping up in unexpected areas

From guerilla gardening to permaculture blitzes, amateur gardeners are picking up trowels and transforming their streets into edible food forests and more.

By Isabelle Lane
Queensland Country Life
17 Nov 2017

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Pat Long is the driving force behind Farnham Street Neighbourhood Learning Centre’s community garden and food forest, in the inner-city Melbourne suburb of Flemington. Both the garden and food forest are open and accessible to the general public.

“It brings communities together … and connects you with all sorts of people that you might not normally meet,” Long says.

In 2013, volunteers extended the community garden into the adjacent park to create a food forest with “lots of fruit trees and all sorts of herbs”.

Volunteers have also created compost facilities, with locals encouraged to bring along their own food scraps and add them to the compost bins. There’s been plenty of support from neighbouring businesses too, with local coffee roasters and cafes donating coffee grounds and husks for composting.

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