Princes Hill Neighbourhood Garden

Gardens are vital for city people. This will be a great project.

Excellent community project

This will be a wonderful asset for our community.

An extra bonus to add to the wonderful Railway House community service. This new garden will be a joy!

Such a gorgeous idea. I'm new to the area and I would love the opportunity to connect with my neighbours and my community over a project like this. And what a great spot - right along the Capital City Trail. Easy access, beautiful location, plenty of space. Hope this gets picked, it would really bring new life into the area (literally and figuratively speaking!).

Great project. Good for the local community.

This is a great project idea and would be a great addition to the local area. How can I get involved?

This is a wonderful project that creates the opportunity for many member of the community to come together and a dynamic and creative space that can be shared into the future by the wider community.

This is a wonderful way for us senior citizens to give back and to pass on skills to younger people as well as to learn about new kinds of food from our wonderful multi-cultural neighbourhood which includes people from Africa and South East Asia. Although this seems a wealthy suburb, once you get below the surface you find there are plenty of people on fixed incomes, both young and old. How nice to be able to offer FREE food to them, especially to the Neighbourhood House weekly lunch. Plus with a herb garden open to all for picking we'll be reducing food miles which helps the environment. Lastly we hope there will be a special picking garden for toddlers to enjoy plucking a ripe strawberry and learning where food comes from. Perhaps best of all there's a lovely teaching space already (the pavilion) for us to have formal classes to learn more about what makes good soil, how to compost, how to grow in a small space and all sorts of skills to enable people who may only have a pot garden to grow some nutritious food. I love it!

Great project initiative from a group of local volunteers! This group already maintains the gardens around the Neighbourhood House, and works with VET students from the local high school so I am confident this additional project will be a big success!

This group has the genuine capacity to get this done and benefit this peaceful, caring community over the long haul, with lasting impact.

An excellent use for an area long under utilized.

There has long been a desire for a project of this type in the neigbourhood but it hasn't yet eventuated. This proposal takes account of past false starts and is well considered and enthusiastically supported by the community. It deserves the chance to fly!

A community garden would be a wonderful thing for the Princes Hill community and bring so many benefits. In this small area that is Princes Hill we have 2 schools, a retirement village, a child and maternal health centre, a public housing estate, a kindergarten, a church. This garden will provide the opportunity for people of all ages and backgrounds to come together to grow and share food, learn and connect with their neighbours. This project is all about enhancing community!

Community is about living together, not fences just bridges, beautiful pathways that grow love and inclusion. Having spent time in the North Carlton Railway Neighborhood House teaching cooking to people on a low income and catering in my early years as a Nutritionist for their Christmas Parties I had the opportunity to be amongst this community, to live amongst and witness this wonderful cross cultural melting pot. The fruits of this space are eveident, its staff, the neighbors both public housing tenants, migrants, refugess and inner city private home owners and renters all living and supporting one another, no walls just hearts. The community garden would provide a space that would grow more love, cook more food, create more inclusion and provide a great learning space around what is sorely missed in our homes today the backyard, the garden, the home grown produce. The community lunches that take place every Wednesday could use the produce that is grown and create wonderful meals to serve the local community who gather each week. I am just so proud of all who have contributed to make this project a visible dream come true. Thank you and bless

Sounds really good. I like the idea of involving kids from the two schools, as well as young parents and their offspring. Cross-generational involvement, to keep the community growing together.

Awesome idea. This part of the Reserve is currently underutilised. I love to go there with my son to play. It is one of those few green areas where kids can freely run around without any traffic and the railway house is managed really well by its volunteer staff. I think a minimum investment could maximise its potential further and help to cater for a growing community.

Exciting potential here - a lovely garden to share, plus they're restoring one of the old bocce lanes too - thinking classes in gardening, food swaps, cooking, language, composting from home and seed sharing. Kids can learn how easy it is to grow food in our city; it will model sustainable practices and be a comfortable, conversational place where you can come and go freely & connect with your community every time you visit. You can even have a coffee on the old railway platform. Can't wait!

Great project which will give people an opportunity to share a gardening experience, green up unused land area, and produce edibles. I am going to be involved

Great way to bring the community together.

Best wishes for continued good work.

Thank you for the opportunity to vote.

Great work in an open-minded and peace-loving neighbourhood.

There is now considerable evidence that community gardens provide benefits for residents that live near and use these spaces. The planning for this project has involved many in the local community and there is broad based support.

A project that will be good for the individual, the community and the environment.
It's a win-win-win proposition!