The Flinders Community Permaculture Garden Club aims to transform the area next to the community garden from being a vacant block into a welcoming, beautiful and useful space through an exciting community driven, interactive project.
The earmarked project site is currently un-used and run down due to a lack of landscape design. This project has the potential to invigorate the whole area to the benefit of many community stakeholders, especially fellow community permaculture garden groups.
This entire project will be focused around interactive workshops which will aim to engage, bring together and develop community. The aim is for the project to begin in December 2013 and conclude in March 2014.
There are 4 stages of the project.
Stage 1. Site preparation and gazebo infrastructural build.
Stage 2. Sustainable building workshop
Stage 3. Cultural Arts Mural – conciliation event
Stage 4. Kitchen garden, fit out, signage and community celebration
The construction of a gazebo is the centrepiece of our project. A gazebo will not only create a much needed multipurpose outdoor shelter, but also create a great outdoor education space that any community group can utilise to run workshops, hold group meetings and be a nice venue to hold community events.
Once the gazebo infrastructure is built, a group of professional straw bale builders (House of Bale) will run a series of interactive and educational workshops teaching participants how to build using sustainable materials. These hands on workshops (open to 20 participants) will result in the construction of the strawbale wall and seating of the gazebo, as well as a pizza cob oven using the super adobe technique.
The final coat render is when the cultural arts component of the project will take place. A mosaic mural will be embedded in the strawbale wall representing the Dreamtime stories and other culturally significant representations, in collaboration with the Living Kaurna Cultural Centre and Healthy Communities. This will be a great opportunity to build ‘conciliation’ within the community and will be done as a cultural inclusivity community arts event across a weekend in February, potentially as part of the Fringe Festival of events. We will be promoting this event heavily through the local Councils and especially arts and community garden groups.
Workshops will be open to members of the public and will be promoted locally through community groups, gardens newsletters and the council’s local messenger seeking expressions of interest. The strawbale and cob oven build will be restricted to 20 participants. But the cultural arts project will be developed in such a way that everyone can contribute through embedding a tile into the mosaic.
The final project stage will be establishing a kitchen garden, gazebo fit out and interpretive signage.
A complete project plan is available to view here
Check out the amazing engineered gazebo designs here
The earmarked project site is currently un-used and run down due to a lack of landscape design. This project has the potential to invigorate the whole area to the benefit of many community stakeholders, especially fellow community permaculture garden groups.
This entire project will be focused around interactive workshops which will aim to engage, bring together and develop community. The aim is for the project to begin in December 2013 and conclude in March 2014.
There are 4 stages of the project.
Stage 1. Site preparation and gazebo infrastructural build.
Stage 2. Sustainable building workshop
Stage 3. Cultural Arts Mural – conciliation event
Stage 4. Kitchen garden, fit out, signage and community celebration
The construction of a gazebo is the centrepiece of our project. A gazebo will not only create a much needed multipurpose outdoor shelter, but also create a great outdoor education space that any community group can utilise to run workshops, hold group meetings and be a nice venue to hold community events.
Once the gazebo infrastructure is built, a group of professional straw bale builders (House of Bale) will run a series of interactive and educational workshops teaching participants how to build using sustainable materials. These hands on workshops (open to 20 participants) will result in the construction of the strawbale wall and seating of the gazebo, as well as a pizza cob oven using the super adobe technique.
The final coat render is when the cultural arts component of the project will take place. A mosaic mural will be embedded in the strawbale wall representing the Dreamtime stories and other culturally significant representations, in collaboration with the Living Kaurna Cultural Centre and Healthy Communities. This will be a great opportunity to build ‘conciliation’ within the community and will be done as a cultural inclusivity community arts event across a weekend in February, potentially as part of the Fringe Festival of events. We will be promoting this event heavily through the local Councils and especially arts and community garden groups.
Workshops will be open to members of the public and will be promoted locally through community groups, gardens newsletters and the council’s local messenger seeking expressions of interest. The strawbale and cob oven build will be restricted to 20 participants. But the cultural arts project will be developed in such a way that everyone can contribute through embedding a tile into the mosaic.
The final project stage will be establishing a kitchen garden, gazebo fit out and interpretive signage.
A complete project plan is available to view here
Check out the amazing engineered gazebo designs here