St Kilda Melbourne Community garden on Chaucer Street

The St Kilda community garden is open from dawn to dusk.  The site was once a bowling club, so it is BIG. The buildings must have been pretty ordinary by the time the bowling ceased and the garden began in 1998. About a hundred individual plots, each with a letterbox for internal mail. The council supports it with a paid staff member, so there are rabbits and chooks in runs as there is always somebody there to look after their welfare. The local pigeons were very happy too, giving the compost bins a good going over and not the least afraid of the camera or the human holding it. Lots of outdoor art with mosaic walls, painted murals, a "pirate ship" play area, grape-vine arbours, pizza oven and lots of places to get out of the rain and sun, as well as a big collection of tanks dotted about. Right next door is the St Kilda fun fair with the chuckwagon roller-coaster rumbling away. Two mums and their kids came in with their lunch and a couple of gardeners were checking out their plots.