Our beautiful Sill.Life living artworks have survived the summer … still looking gorgeous amazingly - the peeling paint on the frame is just adding to the artistry I think!!

I took a little video of them last week and posted it on Instagram here - after Lee upgraded the ‘vases’ at the back that are made from recycled tetrapaks (donated by the Alphington Foodstore next door - and have you seen the reno and met the new owner yet???).

If you have some beautiful blooms in your garden, particularly some long lasting hardy blooms - why not add them into the mix next time you are passing?

Thanks once again to Yarra City Arts for supporting this community arts project!

Are you a keen gardener? We’d love some help in our garden on Friday mornings. Clare is here from 10-11.30am working to maintain our lovely community garden space and building up the capacity of our seed library and the other gardening resources onsite - and at the same time sharing seasonal gardening expertise and composting tips and tricks etc.

If you enjoy a chat and like gardening perhaps you’d like to come along? This program is suitable for young families and retirees, and anyone in between who enjoys gardening.

Note the program concludes with morning tea at 11.30am. We hope to see you soon!

This week is National Recycling Week and we’ve been celebrating recycling in our programs. We kicked off with Visible Mending Club on the weekend and sent along some fabulous potential mending supplies for the group that Anne had kindly donated (patches and lace and all sorts of interesting things) … then offered a range of fun recycled craft activities for playgroups … and will finish the week mixing up recycling with gardening … making recycled seed packets for seeds we’ve saved from the garden and also potting up some of the lettuce seedlings we’ve been growing - again in recycled pots and tins.

And we made this great sign as well! Just for fun. Using a whole range of donated/recycled things we had hanging around … so Happy National Recycling Week.

Our robust pruning Is paying off with loads of fruit starting to appear on our fruit trees this year. Hooray!

And look at this beautiful blossom on our Granny Smith tree. Lovely colours.

With funding from the Federal Government (to support volunteer activities) we recently purchased a little greenhouse for our front garden.

Thanks for putting it together Corrado. And thanks Ged Kearney MP for supporting this grant application. It’s great to be able to collectively support volunteering in our community

Now we’re looking forward to raising seedlings and nurturing cuttings for our seed library and community garden 🪴in it.