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Growing Food for the Disadvantaged – 2015 Report

2015 Annual Report

 This year

  1. Raised wooden boxes were constructed around our vegetable beds.  This project was funded by donations and built by a member of the Association.
  2. A watering system was installed.

A friend of the Association who is a member of Rotary e-club applied to Rotary for a donation of $600.00 to enable the Association to install a new watering system for the vegetable garden. This was approved.

Our organic vegetable garden is totally run by a number of members of the association who meet regularly in the garden plot.

We are growing a variety of seasonal produce to maximise variety in the food basket we donate weekly to 3 organisations

  • WAGEC (Women and Girls Emergency Centre in Potts Point), which is a support service for women with or without children who are at risk or experiencing homelessness in the Inner City of Sydney.  This includes indigenous women.
  • Young Parents Support Organisation run by the Red Cross in Randwick.  This also includes indigenous people.
  • St Canices’ Kitchen for homeless people and refugees/asylum seekers in Kings Cross

We also contribute produce to the members of our association who organize monthly lunches for refugees/asylum seekers at the Asylum Seekers Centre in Newtown.

The garden continues to be totally organic, as we believe strongly in the benefits of eating fresh organic food.

 

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