Wilkins Green School and Community Garden
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House Notes – Wilkins Green School and Community Garden
Wilkins Green School community garden was established in 2004. All children at Wilkins Public School attend weekly garden education classes. Globe Wilkins Preschool within the school grounds also conducts early and cultural learning. A number of after-school programs visit and use this unique space. TAFE Outreach Petersham regularly host urban food growing and sustainable bushcare courses in Wilkins Green, and many members of the local community join us for working bees on our open garden days held once a month. It is a green oasis within an urban environment.
At the garden you will be able to see:
- Permaculture vegetable garden
- Chicken run
- Fruit orchard
- Aboriginal walking trail that encompasses fibre, medicinal and bush-tucker plants
- Bike track
- Water tanks
- Storage shed
- Bush restoration ridge adjoining a native garden
- Large deck area with kitchenette and a compost toilet made with hempcrete walls.
Sustainability Features
- Water harvesting and saving features:
- Above-ground rainwater storage
- Above ground rainwater storage Type:
- Rainwater tanks
- Above ground rainwater storage Size
- 10,000L
- Sustainable materials:
- The construction ply used for the formwork of the hempcrete walls in the workshop were used for cladding and shelving
- Recycled and reused materials:
- Basins/sinks
Bathroom cabinets
Doors
Kitchen cabinets
Timber
- All-Electric Home?
- No
- Roof
- Metal (colorbond)
- Wall Materials
- Hempcrete
Timber
- Number of bedrooms
- 1
- Number of bathrooms
- 1
- Garden / Outdoors
- Bee keeping
Bee hotels/friendly
Chickens
Community vegetable garden
Composting
Edible garden
Organic
Native plants
Water-wise plants
- Housing Type:
- School Community Garden
- Project Type:
- Community Garden
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