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It combines a garden, working to some extent on permaculture principles, and a food co-op where both bulk and fresh groceries can be purchased along with daily lunches. Some of the vegetables such as lettuce and silver beet can be selected and picked straight from the soil before purchase which I feel is a lovely idea.
On an often busy campus and on days full of power point lectures and fluorescent lights, it is a pleasant escape providing a place to go and spend some time with a picnic table in the sun, a few inside seats and a shady balcony below vines with tables and couches and a view of the garden beds.
On an often busy campus and on days full of power point lectures and fluorescent lights, it is a pleasant escape providing a place to go and spend some time with a picnic table in the sun, a few inside seats and a shady balcony below vines with tables and couches and a view of the garden beds.
Lunches made with garden produce and other local food is sold Monday to Friday from 12.30pm until sold out.
Run by and relying on volunteers, they hold monthly working bees on the first Saturday of the month from 9am til 1pm ending with shared food (take something along to share) and sometimes the wood fired pizza oven gets fired up to create home made pizzas.
Future plans for the garden include planting olive and nut trees, creating a frog pond, a shady hang-out spot and many more food and flower plants!
A worm farm and compost bins allow for recycling of nutrients and the chooks (sweet looking fluffy headed bantams) also eat scraps and provide eggs for cooking (and sometimes for sale).
If you choose to become a member, it costs $25 waged and $18 unwaged for the year. With this, you get a 20% discount when you shop in the co-op. You can also volunteer and become an 'active member'. If you volunteer for 4 hours a month you will receive a 30% discount on food.
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