Each Monday morning a group of people who enjoy gardening or who want to learn more, meet at 7 Prentice St. They work, chat, and have morning tea together. They also produce vegetables for sale. Feel free to wander past and check it out.

Produce is also for sale at the Community House, 363 High St on Monday afternoons.

Every year, Australians spend $7 billion on professional gardening and landscaping services.  A staggering number, perhaps especially considering it is Baby Boomers and older generations who are leading the way. The figures do however highlight how very important the great outdoors is to us all. To some, gardening isn’t only about making the immediate surroundings look beautiful and inviting, to them, gardening is also about community.

Every Monday at 10am, a group of enthusiastic volunteers meets up at 7 Prentice Street where a very productive garden is constantly growing, changing and expanding. The idea and vision way back in 2012 when the group started, was to recycle, reuse and reinvent, rather than buying new. Fruit boxes were painted and filled with soil. Timber, corrugated iron and star pickets were used to build the compost bays. Donated pots, bricks, worm baths etc, quickly filled the yard and a round table was donated and placed under the old carport which is now where the group sit for their morning “smoko”. (Except during winter that is, when they move inside for their cuppa.)

Every Monday, the garden is also open to the general public if anyone would like to come and have a look, or perhaps buy some produce. Any time of year, the garden is booming with different vegetables and herbs but the Garden Group also has several different types of succulents for sale for just a gold coin or two.