Friendship through gardening: Jamie's Placestory and our Placemaking grant from NCC

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Jamie has produced a "Placestory" as a brief introduction to the transition Villiers Street Comunity Garden made to becoming Church Street Community Garden. We are all waiting to see if a notable TV gardening presenter will be able to launch it very soon.

But wait! there's more! We are in the process of receiving a "Placemaking" grant from Newcastle City Council, just the paperwork and funds transfer to complete. This grant, combined with the grant we received for Villiers Street as a seed grant, is a huge boost to us. From little things big things grow.

We are very grateful to NCC for the financial support we have received. Gratitude is one of the least long-lived emotions, so we will use the cash to turn it into long-term social, emotional and environmental gold in our local community. The grant application was for a picnic setting which is safe and suitable for public use, and for an event to promote membership and community participation in the garden. Now we will have the pleasure and fun of making it all happen.

Church Street Community Garden Inc is an autonomous community group hosted by St Andrew's Mayfield. Rev Andrew emailed the link

http://www.insights.uca.org.au/2010/11november/community-garden.html

to a Uniting Church newsletter and it shows just how community, humanity and environmental stewardship unites us all.

The picture is apropos absolutely nothing in particular except, is this what bakers do when they are bored stiff? Driving from Adelaide to Ardrossan on Yorke Peninsula, stopped at an eatery for lunch and there were these wild cakes.