The Working Party is created
On Friday 10th September, members from Yooralla management, Yooralla fundraising, Global Gardens of Peace along with Gerard and Deborah Halpern, met to start to get the planning process for implementing the food forest underway. The meeting was productive with some...
Eckersley Garden Architecture- a key donor to our garden
Meet the team from Eckersley Garden Architecture who have joined forces with the Global Gardens of Peace to list the plants and cost out our project. Money isn't the only form of donation and we thank the team at EGA for all of their time and expertise in drawing up...
Episode 7. The Green Room
The inspiration for the VASS Food Forest came from the Ikea Grow Room that Gerard found originally on-line. Upon investigation, he got in contact with John Rayner from the University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus and found that his team had actually built one and that...
The perpetual spinach was delicious!
While waiting for the Food Forest to be built, we planted perpetual spinach and some herbs in the raised garden bed currently on the site of our Food Forest. The first big harvest resulted in looking for something delicious to cook with it. Usually I have a few leaves...
Sunflowers
Sunflowers seem to dance with joy. They also contain up to a hundred seeds in each flower head. Sunflowers make people happy. You may think you have little to contribute to our Food Forest. That doesn't mean that you can't be a contributor. You can be a sunflower. The...
Episode 6. The Pond.
Water is an important part of The Food Forest at VASS. So we are having a Pond! Episode 6 of our video series about the Food Forest at VASS, is all about the pond and the importance of water. The pond and the quality of this green space will provide habitat, water,...
We need Coconuts!
Once completed, the VASS Food Forest, through Andrew's* design will operate on several levels. Firstly, it will provide the staff and residents here at VASS with fresh fruit and vegetables. It will provide us all with a haven to enjoy in all weather. On another...
From tiny seeds, big things grow
I read an interesting article just recently. There is now evidence that trees communicate with each other through their root systems and mycelium fungi. When you see pictures of Tasmanian Mountain Ash, it’s easy to imagine that these giants are in competition with...
The Project team is coming together
In a project like this, with many stakeholders, it's important that we get together and work out how we work together to bring this project to fruition. With the Department of Families, Fairness and Housing owning the site, Yooralla managing the facility, the Global...
Our design evolves
With the welcome addition of EGA (Eckersley Garden Architecture) to our design team, our Food Forest design has evolved! The "Green Room" - an all weather area in which VASS residents can enjoy the garden with their family and friends- is now larger and central to our...
