General News
22 November, 2023
Community garden's $75,000 lift
BRIDGEWATER’S community garden project has been given a $75,000 boost. The Kooyoora Women’s Network project at the town’s former railway station is one of several Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal grants announced last week. The...
BRIDGEWATER’S community garden project has been given a $75,000 boost.
The Kooyoora Women’s Network project at the town’s former railway station is one of several Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal grants announced last week.
The hub’s community garden and sensory garden project will be backed up by eight workshops to share knowledge with Let’s Talk About the Weather involving local community mapping of the network and focused capacity building support.
LEAD Loddon Murray is co-ordinating the Bridgewater project and three others in the wider region.
FRRR’s disaster resilience and recovery lead Nina O’Brien said projects reflected local priorities.
“All these projects have come about thanks to a robust, locally-led co-design process. In the Loddon Campaspe region, in Victoria, there is a history of drought, although in late 2022, the region experienced significant flood damage,” she said.
“Several communities remain displaced with the recovery and rebuilding process hampered by a variety of factors, including volunteer fatigue.
“Despite this, there was strong engagement in the co-design process, including the local traditional owners, the Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation.
“Dja Dja Wurrung will lead a project that will employ a local co-ordinator who will work with council, Landcare, community organisations and private landholders to heal country, building understanding of traditional land management practices and ways to restore the land,” Nina said last week.