This week we completed our long planned street art project - acknowledging the 262 days we collectively stayed at home to look after each other and protect the most vulnerable in our community between 22 March 2020 and 21 October 2021. Six colours - one for each lockdown. 262 lines - one for each day. Lovely to have Lee back on board this term to help deliver our community art project ideas!

What a great workshop. We had 8 adults and 2 children join in our Saturday morning workshop and everyone left with new skills and knowledge … and a gorgeous worm tower ready to put into their home garden.

Thanks Clare for sharing your skills. Thanks everyone involved in the Garden State Festival -we were delighted to be part of it. And thanks neighbourhood friends for coming along!

You may have noticed the beautiful flyer in your letterbox from the Plant Society! But just in case you have missed it there are some for you to pick up in our seed library.

The Plant Society and Yarra City Council are running an inaugural Garden State Festival to celebrate gardening as an art form and to explore the vital role plants play in the art of living this weekend.

Garden State celebrates the intersection between plants, art, architecture, craft, design, food, ideas, music, performance, elevating what it means to be a modern gardener.

The festival has so much to offer. From landscaping workshops to building a table top garden with artist Bec Orpin. As well as our own Worm Tower 101 Workshop here at the ACC!

Check out the program here.

And join our Worm Tower workshop here for just $15 on Saturday 30th from 10am- 12pm. There are a couple of spots left.

How cool! This week I headed over to Reservoir Neighbourhood House for our monthly Darebin Neighbourhood House Network meeting and Angie and Lia proudly showed us the amazing community artworks going in on the walls of the local public housing just next door - that they have commissioned utilising a State Government grant.

Six new murals are at various stages of completion. Each is designed by a different artist and each has creative input from the people who live in the building … whose home is being transformed. Clare (who is also working with us on Friday and running Arty Gardening) is a key part of this project, which is an element of the broader Reservoir Revitalisation project.

I came home to our house inspired to start a new community art project of some sort here … it looks great doesn’t it.

Join Clare in the garden on Saturday 30 April from 10am-12pm to learn all about worm towers - and work together as a family (if you like or by yourself if you prefer) to make one for your garden.

Worm towers are tubes that are half buried directly in the garden. You add kitchen scraps in the top and the worms do their magical thing from below - right where you need them the most!

In this workshop we’ll provide all the equipment and materials needed to make your tower and decorate it beautifully so it becomes garden art.

Only $15. Morning tea provided. Enrol here under the workshops tab.

This workshop is part of The Garden State Festival - and supported by The Plant Society and Yarra City Council.