A guerrilla gardening group growing produce during the pandemic | Discovery | Gardening Australia

[@KarlafromOZ]

Councils should be on board with this, they should be converting unused blocks to vege gardens, im sure if they put the call out people will hepl make it happen, their should not be anything that the council's should put in the way of this being done, we need vege gardens everywhere t t needs to become the norm

[@11Aradia11]

Ive heard from older Australians there is an old English law (allotments) that is also part of Australian law that stipulates each council must set aside land for its people to farm from so they don't starve. If this is true than it explain why councils are willing to share unutilised land with gardening groups.

[@RenegadeAcre]

Our tiny indoor vertical farm here in South Carolina was founded in 2020 and is now open source. We are dumping all our methodologies to the public for all to use, get inspiration from, etc. ✌️💚🌱

[@lesliedevlin8501]

Time 2 get back 2 growing your own veg and fruit people great show people 🌱🌱🌱💯💯💯👍👍👍👀👀👀 Les from Perth

[@margaretsinclair6697]

Wonderful initiative.

[@wildlifegardenssydney7492]

Wonderful ideas and action. Congratulations to all involved!

[@vmfamilylife]

My dream garden. But I am very busy with kids, cooking and working. I wish have enought time to build my dream garden.

[@cheapcharlie7]

You only live once, if you want to do some thing bad enough you will find a way to make it happen

[@lesliedevlin8501]

Just do it and be happy 🌱🌱🌱💯💯💯👍👍👍👀👀👀

[@heatherreis7839]

I'm a stay at home mom with 3 little ones. I have 8 raised beds and plan to expand 4 more 4x20 beds. I built all 8 leveled and filled them by myself in a weekend all while having to be on a budget. Best advice I can give is just do it and involve your little ones with you. Yes it takes time I'm 5 years in and finally got the hang of it. The more you hold off on it, the more you won't do it. And doing something like they've done is pretty simple. Go thru where you want your beds to be, lay down cardboard, and build the soil up into mounds. Fill in the paths with more cardboard and fill with wood chips or you could always grow a cover crop. Either would be fine.

[@ourrealfamilylife4530]

What a wonderful idea! More lower to them they’re doing such a wonderful job. I just love that they’re helping the more vulnerable members of our multicultural community too. Great job guys. Xx

[@jm8meditate274]

Great work!

[@ramthian]

Beautiful 😻 thanks 🙏

[@bawselife6859]

Love it.. let the okra grow tho

[@sampaquitee423]

I love this! Is there a guide on how to try start a similar thing in everyone's local council? I don't have a horticulture degree but I'd definitely volunteer to be admin and a worker!

[@GardeningAustralia]

Not that we know of Sam, you can contact your local community garden to see if there are any similar gardening groups in your area.

[@pigboypunk]

why don't councils grow fruit trees in public spaces for people to pick for free? it should be their responsibility...

[@sightseeinginstyle8119]

Great idea, but I'm curious about who is paying for the water? They said they identified a water source, where did that come from? Was it the apartment building, or was there already an outlet on the government owned land? If its on the government owned land, then its the tax payers paying for the water, which is why some government areas can get twitchy (unapproved use of tax payer funds).

[@justinarnold7725]

J.A.P. aka Kent Pumpkins are Moschata not Maxima as show in the clip

[@tekoScott]

Great concept love the idea. But guerilla gardens would be better in the poorer suburbs of Brisbane where they are more needed than the richer ones.

[@huggy-Bear]

I like the gesture of asking the traditional owners but at the end of the day you can't just build a garden without approval from the local council at least!

[@sightseeinginstyle8119]

If its a state government owned block, then local council doesn't care and has no opinion on the matter. And generally, state governments don't care about disused blocks being utilised like this as long as no permanent infrastructure is built on the land.

[@huggy-Bear]

@@sightseeinginstyle8119 Where I live in WA the community gardens are run by the local council

[@marimari9197]

Wawnice

[@introtwerp]

Is this recent?

[@jakkooll]

Will this be allowed in the future with the 2030 agenda?

[@StrahaoftheRace]

Nope.

[@matthewfarrell317]

While I like the idea, the fact the people who run the project are extreme far left leaves a lot of people from the centre and right out of it. Why would you want to get involved. Some of us have extensive permaculture experience. Hopefully they become more neutral as time goes on. I like the concept of turning people owned spaces (council land) into more edible spaces.

[@interestedobserver587]

They ask refugees what they wanted grown but didnt seem to involve them in the growing process. Seemed very privileged upbringing white saviour motivated.

[@RuralRuins]

gardening with masks 🙄

[@cookielalalala]

yes, because of the possibility of legionella in the soil. But who cares what the reason was? If she wants to wear a mask then yay to her

[@ourv9603]

You're using gorillas in your garden to do the work? !

[@StrahaoftheRace]

Woke alert WOKE ALERT!

[@howdyd9181]

Gardening Australia has gone FULL WOKE!

[@StrahaoftheRace]

@@howdyd9181 not really. The presenters are all white.

[@turbocat1984]

I'll say!

[@benschulz3871]

Love ya work, its the only thing we need to do as humans , the perfect cure for depression an basically every disease known to man .... to grow an eat all fresh produce will change ur life forever... I'm living proof of this fact 💙