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Sunday, October 31, 2010
The Trevallyn Community Garden Proposal in Perspective
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If "Community Garden" here is meant to mean something like 'plots' and 'garden allotments' that are springing up in urban communities elsewhere there may well be a gap between the idea that is being communicated and the one that is being imagined.
In urban communities elsewhere where community gardens are becoming fashionable again, individual households tend to lack the space for such gardens. Indeed the purpose of the quarter acre block was to provide this space. Trevallyn is planned around the quarter acre block. By-and-large family households on Trevallyn have sufficient space for a productive food garden albeit that many may not have them.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
THE PROPOSED SITE
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Courtesy of Google Earth this is the site currently
being planned for use as a community garden.
A SURVEY
1. Have you ever heard of the concept of community gardens before? Yes No
If no, the welcome message gives you some information but if you’d like more, please check these site out:
Yes No If yes, please specify:
4. Do you support the idea of a community garden at Trevallyn Park? Yes No Don’t know
4a. What is the reason for your answer?
9. Are there any other issues, ideas or thoughts you would like to share with us regarding community gardens? If so, please do so here:
10. If you would like to be involved with the garden proposal or would just like more information about the idea, please fill in your name and contact details. Trevallyn Sustainability Group will be in touch.
If no, the welcome message gives you some information but if you’d like more, please check these site out:
- Community Gardens Tasmania – CLICK HERE
- The Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation – CLICK HERE
- Australian City Farms & Community Gardens – CLICK HERE
- Sustainable Living Tasmania – CLICK HERE
- Permaculture Community Garden – CLICK HERE
- Ravenswood Community Garden – CLICK HERE
- List of Community Gardens in Tasmania – CLICK HERE
- CERES Community Gardening PLUS – CLICK HERE
- A Community Garden in UK and USA – CLICK HERE
- If so, which club?
Yes No If yes, please specify:
4. Do you support the idea of a community garden at Trevallyn Park? Yes No Don’t know
4a. What is the reason for your answer?
5. If you have indicated in Question 3 that you have concerns with the community garden proposal, what might need to be done to address those concerns?
6. If you oppose use of Trevallyn Park for a community garden, can you suggest another suitable location in Trevallyn?
7. If you support the idea of community gardens at Trevallyn Park, are there particular types of gardening opportunities or particular support facilities and services you would like to see provided? If so, please list them :
8. Would you like to be involved in further discussions about the proposed community gardens and if they go ahead, with their development? Yes No
If you answered “Yes”, how would you like to be involved?
Garden plot holder Garden development Garden maintenance Building skills
Promotion and administration Community education activities Other, please specify
6. If you oppose use of Trevallyn Park for a community garden, can you suggest another suitable location in Trevallyn?
7. If you support the idea of community gardens at Trevallyn Park, are there particular types of gardening opportunities or particular support facilities and services you would like to see provided? If so, please list them :
8. Would you like to be involved in further discussions about the proposed community gardens and if they go ahead, with their development? Yes No
If you answered “Yes”, how would you like to be involved?
Garden plot holder Garden development Garden maintenance Building skills
Promotion and administration Community education activities Other, please specify
9. Are there any other issues, ideas or thoughts you would like to share with us regarding community gardens? If so, please do so here:
10. If you would like to be involved with the garden proposal or would just like more information about the idea, please fill in your name and contact details. Trevallyn Sustainability Group will be in touch.
Name…………………………………… Phone………………………………….………
Email……………………………………………………..
Thank you; the Sustainability Group would appreciate you taking the time to complete this survey.
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And send it to: hayleymarc@bigpond.com
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WHEN THE PROPOSAL FIRST CAME TO LIGHT IN THE EXAMINER
Parkland plan the subject of Trevallyn talks
BY MATT MALONEY 31 May, 2010 01:00 AM
BY MATT MALONEY 31 May, 2010 01:00 AM
TREVALLYN residents are invited to a meeting at the Trevallyn Cricket Club tonight at 7.30 to discuss the future of parkland off Gorge Road.
The Trevallyn Parks and Improvement Association released plans last week to convert the public space into a $25,800 community vegetable garden and orchid project.
The association proposed that the gardens would benefit the elderly and needy in the immediate area, as well as Trevallyn Primary School pupils.
Resident Bill Deakin said several residents had expressed concerns over the plan, namely due to the disruptions to views and amenity that a 1.8-metre-high fence would cause, and the lack of consultation over the project.
He believed property values would decrease in time and that the garden would not be used as much as the park's green open space.
"Most people in Trevallyn are busy enough looking after their own gardens - you can see the idea falling over and gradually deteriorating into an uncared for block of land," Mr Deakin said.
The Trevallyn Parks and Improvement Association released plans last week to convert the public space into a $25,800 community vegetable garden and orchid project.
The association proposed that the gardens would benefit the elderly and needy in the immediate area, as well as Trevallyn Primary School pupils.
Resident Bill Deakin said several residents had expressed concerns over the plan, namely due to the disruptions to views and amenity that a 1.8-metre-high fence would cause, and the lack of consultation over the project.
He believed property values would decrease in time and that the garden would not be used as much as the park's green open space.
"Most people in Trevallyn are busy enough looking after their own gardens - you can see the idea falling over and gradually deteriorating into an uncared for block of land," Mr Deakin said.
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No garden proposal released by group BY HAYLEY TRISTRAM - SOAPBOX 08 Jun, 2010 12:03 PM
By Trevallyn Sustainability Group secretary HAYLEY TRISTRAM THE report on the proposed Trevallyn Community Garden (The Examiner, May 31), deserves an explanation.
The Trevallyn Progress and Improvement Association did not release any papers regarding the community garden proposal.
The Trevallyn Sustainability Group has been negotiating with the association for three months in an attempt to receive in-principle approval for a site for a community garden below the Trevallyn Cricket Club.
The group understands this and a much larger piece of land, which accommodates a cricket club, bowls club, tennis club and so on, has been leased by the Launceston City Council to the association since 1967.
The sustainability group seeks to add the community garden to the existing facilities on this site for the enjoyment and benefit of Trevallyn residents, and the enhancement of our environment.
As part of an ongoing process, some members of the sustainability group met the association on May 29 and presented written documentation, some of which the association had requested to inform its decision making.
This was not intended as public documentation, nor was the meeting established as a public one, but rather a meeting specifically between the Trevallyn Sustainability Group and the Trevallyn Progress and Improvement Association.
Some residents, however, attended and voiced some concerns.
It has always been the intention of the sustainability group to seek broad community support for the garden proposal, but we had considered it sensible and prudent to wait for in-principle support from the association before doing so.
As we have now become aware of some community concern due, in part, to lack of information and misperception, we intend to proceed with community consultation shortly.
There was no evening public meeting planned for May 31 to discuss the project at the stated venue and time noted in the report.
Rather, there was regular meeting of the association, which, on that evening, made it clear it did not intend to have its own agenda sidelined without prior consultation and arrangement.
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