Unless a major event is planned, the Garden calendar largely encompasses regular compost building sessions, working bees and general meetings. Compost Club is usually held late afternoon for an hour of building up compost bays. A full hour or so of wheeling barrowloads of manure, grass, green waste, straw and heaping piles of shredded paper as well as watering the growing heap is easily enough before everyone is ready to call a halt to quite strenuous activity. Regular compost club meetings and teams of composters (some people love it!) at working bees make an enormous difference to supplies of that most vital of garden resources – compost.
Except for a break during the seriously hot parts of summer, working bees are held about two months apart. With morning tea and a general meeting afterwards these meetings are a wonderful, relaxed way way to keep the Garden in good shape. If there’s a gardener willing to share information after a general meeting on interests as diverse as microbats or permaculture, everyone has the opportunity to share a particularly satisfying morning.
Later this year the Garden will hold a public event, hopefully in tandem with the Bowlo next door. We plan to offer lots of activities for children, talks and workshops for everyone else, with jams and plants for sale. And a sausage sizzle of course!
West Leederville Community Garden Inc 