Macedon & Mount Macedon Community House’s (MMMCH) gardens are being kept in tip-top shape by its volunteer gardening crew.
Over the past 12 months, volunteers have developed a variety of garden precincts at the community house, including the kitchen garden, permaculture forest, indigenous garden and courtyard garden.
The house offers regular weekly gardening sessions led by qualified horticulturists, working bees, workshops, guest speaker events, shared morning teas and lunch celebrations.
Workshop topics have included making seed raising mix, planting spring seedlings, planting Indigenous tube stock, raising murrnong seedlings, adaptive crop breeding and nature connection.
The volunteer crews have also participated in the establishment of new special interest groups and activities, including relaunching the Macedon Seed Savers group, and contributing to the Harvest Exchange hosted regularly in the MMMCH front courtyard.
In addition, the group in partnership with the Central Victorian Adaptive Crop Breeding Project, has been formed to develop locally adapted broad bean varieties and edible garden produce that is grown, harvested and supplied to the Gisborne Foodbank.
The gardening crew meets at the house every Friday from 9.30am to 11am, and every second Saturday from 10am to 11.30am.
Macedon Produce Swap also takes place every first and third Saturday of the month from 9.30am to 10.30am.
The group is always looking for more volunteers, and enquiries about joining the Volunteer Community Gardening Program can be made by emailing admin@mmmcommunityhouse.org, online or by popping into the house on Mondays, Wednesdays and Friday mornings.
