June 25, 2012
A team of volunteers turned up on Saturday to help give Kingaroy’s Community Garden in Pound Street a much-needed makeover and find out more information about forming a new group to guide the future direction of the project.
Council officer Kerry Oldfield, who is co-ordinating the Healthy Communities Initiative, organised the open day and working bee in conjunction with RHealth and the Burnett Inland Economic Development Organisation (BIEDO).
The volunteers turned over the soil, weeded the long beds, planted seedlings (mostly vegetables), spread fertilizer and laid mulch.
Kerry said she was a bit worried when the morning turned out to be so cold, but the turnout was “really, really good”.
Prue Lang, from BIEDO, helped some of the younger volunteers make paper cups in which to plant out the seedlings.
Prue, who is BIEDO’s regional garden co-ordinator, said the group hoped to help build interest in the garden so it could be maintained into the future.
There was also an opportunity to try some healthy recipes, prepared by RHealth as part of a Grow Cook Eat workshop.
Kerry said the next meeting of the volunteers would be held towards the end of next month.
This would be another working bee but those attending would also be asked to determine in what direction they would like the project to proceed.
