Australia: ‘We want to end the monoculture of mown lawns’: Plan to grow veggies on Canberra nature strips takes root
“One, we want to help people grow food, also be a little bit more sustainable and bring communities together,” Sarah adds.
By James Coleman
Riotact
19 January 2025
Excerpt:
While many Canberrans might be painfully aware of the rule that forbids parking on the nature strip outside your home – known by the ACT Parking Infringement Guide as “stopping on a path/strip in a built-up area” – it turns out there are other uses for it.
Vegetables, anyone?
Local grassroots sustainability organisation SEE-Change is launching what it hopes will become a territory-wide movement to plant community veggie gardens on nature strips.
The ”Demonstration Verge Garden Network” will start with five across Belconnen next month, and comes with the full blessing of the ACT Government in the form of $22,470 of funding from the Community Garden Grants scheme.
SEE-Change project director Sarah Stonehill says the organisation came up with the idea after realising “a lot of people don’t know the actual regulations that allow you to use your verge”.
“Verges are often ignored, but they have great potential,” she says.
“SEE-Change aims to demonstrate how easy it is to grow veggies on your verge, by conducting workshops that cover regulations, responsibilities, soil improvement, planting and caring for a food garden.”
The project was inspired by the number of successful community gardens that have sprung up across the ACT in recent years, including the Ainslie Urban Farm, which takes up a quarter-acre (1000 sqm) block in Canberra’s inner north.
Ainslie Urban Farm founder Fiona Buining is also helping out.
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Source: https://cityfarmer.info/australia-we-want-to-end-the-monoculture-of-mown-lawns-plan-to-grow-veggies-on-canberra-nature-strips-takes-root/
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