Volunteers welcome at community garden

Organisers of the Woy Woy Peninsula Community Garden are inviting community members to volunteer at the garden on a Thursday morning from 9am.

"For many months, volunteers have been picking up the kitchen veggie scraps from Mary Mac's kitchen," said Woy Woy Peninsula Community Garden coordinator Ms Jill Meredith.

"They are being taken to the Woy Woy Peninsula Community Garden and are being fed to the worms in the worm farms.

"The waste is then turned into wonderful compost for the garden beds to help the vegetables and plants grow strong and healthy.

"One of the good things to come of this, is that the excess produce, not shared by the community gardeners, is donated back to Mary Mac's kitchen so that they can benefit from the freshest and tastiest of home-grown vegetables.

"Some of our bean crop was recently shared as a way of saying thank you, on behalf of our worms," said Ms Meredith.

The community garden is on land owned by Gosford Council and the group has been given a licence to develop a community garden.

It is a project under the auspices of Peninsula Environment Group.

If you are interested in finding out about the community garden or volunteering, come along to the garden at 85-87 Moana St, Woy Woy, on a Thursday morning about 9am.

With inquiries, contact Jill Meredith on 4344 2704.

Email, 29 Apr 2013

Jill Meredith, Woy Woy Peninsula Community Garden