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Sunday, April 22, 2012

Veggie Gardens United!


Jack and I in front of the new wind turbine installed
at the Eco Garden (New Res, CSU Wagga campus)


The little blue hatchback growled as I changed gears and bumbled past the uni post office and up to New Residences. It was the last Sunday of the break and I was keen to get to the gardens. So much to do, so much to do – a new veggie bed to complete, watering newly propagated plants and then there was the compost to turn.
I pulled up at the Eco Garden behind New Res - there was a stranger in the garden!?!?
Last Sunday, I had the great fortune of coincidently crossing paths with Jack (see pic). I’d rocked up to the Eco Garden behind New Res with a list of jobs to blaze through. Needless to say none of these were completed. Instead I had the pleasure of exchanging 'garden talk' with Jack.

Jack is from the CSU campus at Albury. He’s studying the Park Ranger course but is also helping out with the student gardens and a community garden in Albury organised through CSU students and staff.  So we had are great discussion about student garden ideas and we hope to unite our campuses through a conference meeting sometime in the near future.

From what Jack said, it seems like there is a lot of development in the community gardens on campus and within the Albury suburbs.
Wagga is starting to catch on with the idea of community gardens – including the demonstration gardens in Central Wagga (Shaw St), Erin Earth (Kildare St) and the new Tolland community garden (Raye St).

So it shouldn’t be surprising to hear that CSU Wagga has a community garden, run by students for the benefit of students, staff and the wider community.
I am one of the organisers leading this project. Over the break a large wind turbine and some solar panels were installed next to the garden. It looks fantastic!
We are really working on building up our vegetable beds over the next few weeks. Our main aims for this half-semester is to run a movie night in the gardens with free food and drinks. At the moment our major deficit is people power! We want volunteers... That's YOU!
You don’t have to know anything about gardening or even be interested in gardening. We have garden work days every Tuesday 4.30pm-5.30pm. We do basic garden maintenance, propagating, building and art projects. So just rock up! If you want more info about how to be involved in please feel free to contact me.

We hope to see you over the next few weeks as we will be holding “(Real) Free Trade Markets” giving away garden produce and selling cakes to raise funds for the garden.

Hope you are rockin’ the perfect autumn weather!

Gemma Hawkins
Eco Active Club
ecoactivecsu@gmail.com

The Eco Garden is located behind New Res – now uber obvious with a massive white wind turbine. Feel free to have a look around anytime or drop in for a Gardening workshops every Tuesday 4.30-5.30pm.