Earthwise Community

• Surrounds an old church building.
  Size of the garden
• About 20.
  Number of garden members
• $10 per year for plot only.
  Membership fees
• Arrangement with Uniting Church.
  Who do you lease the land from
• Partnership with City of Subiaco.
  Other organisations involved in the garden

Earthwise is a non-funded, volunteer-staffed community. Earthwise undertakes a variety of community and environmental issues.

A busy bee is held every Friday in the organic gardens. Some allotments are in reused fridges as wicking beds.

There is also an Op shop, food centre and a weekly Thursday meal on site.

Successes/opportunities

High community profile. Next to Day Care Centre where we share chickens. Connection strong with the local community through op shop visits, tours, and weekly low cost meals all bring awareness to garden

History of the garden

We always want to use what we have and can get for free to show the community where they can acquire resources. We started through a LEAP course in 1996 and then used Work for Dole programs now all volunteers. It is supported by sales of worms and op-shop sales.

Features

• Access: open to public at all times
• Access: toilets within 40m
• Access: universal access entries & paths
• Cultivation: non-certified organic
• Funding: self funded
• Management: both individual plots & shared garden
• Mostly food production
• Size: greater than 10 sq metres
• Waste: compost and/or wormfarm
• Waste: large scale compost/green waste processing

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