The Westfalen Community Gardens project at Dunlop Street Collingwood Park is one of the great community initiatives in Ipswich's eastern suburbs.The gardens - which are open to all members of the local community - feature an amazing array of fruit and vegetables grown by utilizing modern and traditional horticultural practices, making this a truly thriving oasis.
The launch of the Westfalen Community Gardens Cookbook and inaugural International Food Day.
Fruit and vegetables are bountiful with zucchinis, grapes, beans, peas, pumpkins, cucumbers and marrow the size of a man's forearm - just to name a few of the traditional varieties growing in these spacious gardens.
The Westfalen Gardens are supported by the State Government and the Ipswich City Council and offer free plots to anyone who wants to get involved with this tremendous initiative.
To top off the Gardens, there is a chook run - financed by the State Government - with the most-contented fowls you have ever seen, scratching away to their hearts content in a very modern roost.
At the weekend, the Gardens launched the Westfalen Cookbook and inaugural International Food Day with a brilliant array of international cuisine. Delicacies from 15 countries around the world were on offer including Samoan banana and ice cream as well as beans on coconut milk from Tanzania.
The Federal Member for Oxley Bernie Ripoll, along with the State Member Jo-Ann Miller, Ipswich Mayor Paul Pisasale and Councillors Paul Tully and Victor Attwood attended the launch and gave their ongoing commitment to the project.State Member Jo-Ann Miller
admires the zucchinis at the
the Westfalen Community
Gardens at Collingwood Park.
The Community Garden Co-ordinator is Trevor Gardiner who can be contacted on (07) 3282 4402. Local residents who want their own garden should contact the Co-ordinator to arrange a meeting to discuss a suitably-sized plot.
Plot holders are responsible for growing, watering and maintaining their gardens in good condition.
A tour of the Gardens can be arranged for a nominal fee through Makerita Skidmore on (07) 3389 1031.
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