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| Community gardens provide wonderful food and the immeasurably valuable community bonding. |
Shepparton’s Karibok Park appears to be a perfect spot for a community garden.
It is a small piece of public land, close to many houses,
easily accessible and apparently no longer used.
Surrounded by Archer, Vaughan and Rowe Streets and some
public building, the small open are was once used for cricket, soccer and a
spill-over car park for events at the nearby Shepparton showgrounds.
It would be perfect
as s community garden and with support from the City of Greater Shepparton,
could be developed as an example as to how other small and largely disused
public spaces could be used to help feed the city.
Beyond the “feel-good” aspect of such a garden, it would
have an entirely practical aspect in that it would help boost their larders of
many people who are going to find their diet intolerably squeezed as the noose
of climate change begins to tighten and food supplies become increasingly
tenuous.
The idea that Karibou Park become Shepparton’s first real
community garden takes on a rather pressing urgency in the reading of a story
in today’s Melbourne Age headed: “Climate body fears for food supply”.
Community gardens not only provide a reliable and wide range
of food they also have wonderful community bonding values.
Greater Shepparton's CEO, Gavin Cator, has inspected several such gardens overseas.
Greater Shepparton's CEO, Gavin Cator, has inspected several such gardens overseas.
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