The Mulgoa Sustainability Street group project will help to establish a community garden that can be used to grow fruit and vegetables for consumption by local residents and the school students. This will provide valuable learning experiences for all about how to establish a successful garden and provide additional opportunities for the school to undertake lessons on related sustainability issues such as ‘food miles’, recycling and composting, organic gardening and the importance of being waterwise. Susan Ward from Sustainability Street said: ‘This is an excellent opportunity for the information and knowledge gained from the Sustainability Street program to be shared more broadly with the local community’.
The Penrith City Garden Club community project with Mamre House to improve their plant propogation and irrigation systems will allow Mamre House to continue to propagate seedlings and provide the community with a beautiful range of local native plants. The project will also provide a great opportunity for a closer link to be developed between Mamre House and the Gardening Club and for the Garden Club members to add their own gardening knowledge and expertise to the project.
Both projects are expected to be completed by the end of June, with the bricks already laid down for the Mulgoa community vegetable garden. The funding for these community projects was made possible through grant funding provided by the NSW Government’s Environmental Trust, with Penrith City Gardening Club providing additional funding to go towards their project.
