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The Frontyard Garden

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If you want to get your hands dirty in good company then check the [https://www.frontyardprojects.org/events/ events calendar] for our regular garden working bees. You can also join the '''#garden''' channel on our slack space ([https://frontyard-slackin.herokuapp.com/ join here]) where we share updates and observations about what's happening in the garden week to week.
=== '''Why garden?''' ===
* Principles/philosophy - ''(More details to come...)''
* Permaculture principles in the garden and beyond. ''(More details to come...)''
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=== '''The garden seeds''' ===
In 2016 the Frontyard janitors and friends installed two raised beds in the backyard of 228 Illawarra Road. Sydney artist [[Gilbert Grace]] provided design and permaculture advice while [http://107.org.au/ 107 Projects] gifted second hand wood and other building materials.
=== '''The garden grows''' ===
Over two weekends in late 2017 several tonnes of heavy garden beds and soil were shifted to Frontyard by a couple of Frontyard Janitors and an intrepid crew of volunteers from Marrickville/Sydney and from as far as Newcastle. The four garden beds were shifted from "[http://earlwoodfarm.com/ Earlwood Farm]", a project of love, labour and place in Inner Sydney that wrapped up in 2018. The beds had been installed at Earlwood Farm by the artist [https://www.gabrielledevietri.net/#/gardenofbadflowers/ Gabrielle Di Vietri], and a large team of volunteers, when Di Vietri boycotted the Biennale of Sydney in 2014.
The future of the two unpopulated garden beds currently resting up against the wall is still under discussion.
=== '''The garden futures''' ===
* Seed harvesting
* Sustainable food production - learning how to grow food in the inner city
** [[Sophea Lerner]]
=== '''Seeds, paths and nutrients''' ===
https://www.milkwood.net/
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