City Farm – obvious care has been taken to choose features & repurpose containers for planting. Many of the sandstone blocks come with attached history.
I first came across information about City Farm on National Tree Day 2014 at Sydney Park. Since then I have waited with much enthusiasm for the opening. Well, the official launch of the community hub & cropping area is happening this weekend!
The City of Sydney will hold agroforestry lessons for adults & potting vegetable seedlings to take home & cow milking demonstrations for the kids.
Volunteers have been working on the site & will be available to chat to anyone who is interested in getting involved. There are lots of opportunities for volunteers of all capacity & experience. It’s an opportunity for us to learn how to grow food in a sustainable way.
I’ve been keeping an eye on the site as it was being developed & I think it looks gorgeous. Once it is up & running I expect it will bloom like a huge flower.
DATE: Sunday 29th October 2017
TIME: 10am to 2pm
WHERE: Sydney Park, at the top of the hill where previous National Tree Day events have been held & near the dog pool. Enter via Barwon Road near the corner of Campbell Street.
This is a very attractive fence in my opinion. The City of Sydney have taken care to design a space that is beautiful & inviting for people to enter.
One of the planted areas. The plants & several new trees have labels explaining their uses & benefits. Pretty, pretty, pretty.
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October 28, 2017 at 11:43 am
tonytomeo
Does Sydney have many deciduous trees? I can not see in the pictures, but it seems that many pictures of trees in Australia show primarily evergreen trees. I do not know when deciduous trees would foliate there anyway.
November 7, 2017 at 5:23 pm
Saving Our Trees
Yes, we have loads of deciduous trees. They lose their leaves in the cooler months – autumn and winter. 🙂