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What Are We About
The community garden is a permaculture
heritage food forest and a bush regeneration area where community
members maintain a collection of rare and endangered food plants and
other species. The community gardens was once a sedge swamp and
has been revitalised into a diverse ecological oasis. It holds a
collection of cool climate heirloom fruit and nut trees, some species in
the garden date back from Roman times. It is unique in the sense
that it is fundamentally a community space, it holds vegetable
allotments as most community gardens do, but was mainly visioned as a
purely co-operative, non-hierarchical grove.
The grace of this land is expressed in the
sharing of the people who work together. Members of the garden
give their time and service to the community to build something of
value, beauty and joy in the heart of Katoomba.
The community garden hosts a
local group with a global perspective growing and nurturing earth,
plants and people. We aim for ecological and psychological
sustainability. Through all our gardening, projects, events, and water
collection we thread meditation, healing, transformation and lots of
soups. Earth is the common ground and we come together from all
different pathways using common sense tools to achieve practical things
without conflict.
We manage water, ecology,
ideas and resources. We are non-hierarchical and we plan and
create together while we work and eat. The community garden is a place of
healing and helps people reconnect with themselves while reconnecting
with the land. When you come to the garden you move gently into
the tasks that are comfortable for you, whether it be digging, weeding,
planting or garden sculpture.
The community garden is a
human ecosystem where we grow gardens and grow people. |
