Community garden providing fresh food in Bourke

Manager of Community Greening at Sydney’s Botanic Gardens, Phil Pettitt with Landscape Architecture student Rachel Su and REDI.E’s Shane Knight working on a chili bush at Bourke’s Community Garden on Tuesday. Photo TWH

The Community Greening team from Sydney’s Botanic Gardens has been in Bourke this week, helping the local community garden project prepare for warmer weather ahead.

New research has shown community gardening improves health, wellbeing, and community connectedness and this has been the case in the collaboration between  REDI.E, the Bourke Aboriginal Corporation Health Service (BACHS), the North West Academic Centre and the University of NSW Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture.

Community Greening is one of the Sydney Botanic Gardens’ most awarded non-profit outreach programs.

It enables vulnerable people to get involved in a community gardening project in their area and provides valuable health, training, economic and social benefits to disadvantaged communities.

Manager of Community Greening at Sydney’s Botanic Gardens, Phil Pettitt said that when his team first arrived in Bourke to tackle the 20-year-old community garden in Anson Street a few years ago, the area was covered with weeds, dishevelled wooden beds and piles of dead leaves. […]

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