Grow Your Own Food and Eat it Too…
Community Garden Project
Women’s Resource Centre commenced the Grow Your Own Food and Eat it Too… community garden workshops on 12th June 2008 continuing until July with a focus on no dig gardening, composting, propagation, seed saving, harvesting, food storing and food preservation.
The idea of the workshops is to encourage local women and children to begin a lifestyle of self sufficiency and make their own home gardens sustainable. The workshops are designed to increase knowledge of climate change and its effects all households need to be educated to our save resources of water, fuel in transporting food. Households can learn easy steps to grow their own produce and increase their awareness of methods that are achievable at home.
The workshops are facilitated by Kathleen McCann a permaculture specialist. She would provide education, knowledge, skills and learning to woman, children and their families so that they can achieve good results in their gardens and prepare for the growing seasons in Autumn and Spring.
The Grow Your Own Food and Eat It Too workshops are supporting local women to develop new skills and confidence in a friendly supportive environment and at the same time improve their health and well being through organic gardening.
The Southern Women’s Group Inc manages the Women’s Resource Centre (WRC) and we would like to acknowledge the generous support of the Mumbulla Foundation - the community foundation of the Bega Valley Region.
