Community Garden celebration
A couple of weeks ago our local Community Garden and Food Forest group held a celebration for establishing the garden. We had a good turn out: people bought seeds, cuttings and bunches of flowers.
I was one of the people involved in setting it up years ago, but my health prevents any active involvement these days. They have done a tremendous amount of work; planting fruit trees, setting up an irrigation system and a compost system, moved an old train station shelter onto the site, and built raised vegetable beds.
They also told the story of the establishment of the garden using an old fashioned technology; a Cranky;

Their next project is to create a Rongoā Maori – a traditional Māori healing garden. They are getting qualified advice from experts. I hope it is a success. This is knowledge we need to keep alive in this country.