I’m seeing innovation and collaboration in many spaces in our Eley Ward. The challenge then becomes to spread the word and enable everyone to hear about what will interest them most.
The rooftop at Burwood Brickworks has come back to life through the well supported tenancy of Cultivating Community. Until the end of 2023, Cultivating Community is hosting free one-hour workshops at the rooftop farm, running Thursdays from 2 pm – on 14 September, 5 and 19 October, 9 and 16 November, and 7 and 14 December.
You do need to register (via https://www.burwoodbrickworks.shopping/). This is one thread of many activities that the rooftop farm is trialling. It is a highly inclusive space. Many of the crops already being grown reflect the culinary interests of the surrounding, predominantly Mandarin speaking, community at Brickworks.
We also have some enthusiastic local residents exploring the possibility of a new Friends of Wurundjeri Walk group. September is the right time to consider if you’d like to express interest in joining in and supporting this vital stretch of bushland. You can contact enviro.volunteering@whitehorse.vic.gov.au to be connected up with others involved.
Playground and open space renewal continues across Eley. Some winter activity has been the upgrade of Branksome Grove playspace and of the Fulton Road playspace which is in the Wurundjeri Walk corridor. Plans are also being rolled out soon for sympathetic planting around the Eley Park half court installation. The creation of shade and screening vegetation is an important component of the whole picture of new installations in our open spaces.
