3rd Meeting and visit to Danawa Community Garden, Tourquay

            

Manifold Heights Community Garden Minutes
Date 15/12/2010 Location Danawa Community Garden and then coffee shop	Present Trish, Rebecca, Vicky, Craig, Lorna, Pete, Phil, Liz, Katie	Apologies Helen, Helen, Alistair, Gillian
Next Meeting: Wednesday 12th Jan 2011 6.30pm Bar-b-que BYO something to share e.g. salad or desert 58 Wimmera Ave, Manifold Heights
Item	Action	Who	By
Visited Danawa Com Garden, John kindly showed us around and we learnt lots, what to do and what not to do. See Notes for more detail	None
Met in coffee shop and Rebecca read the Vision Statement, Vicky pointed out that it didn’t include the Watherong and  School, Rebecca rewrote mission statement including school and that the garden will be on Watherong land. Everyone happy with result.	Type up statement and send out to rest of group	Liz	Next meeting
It was mentioned that we should bring the Watherong in early to build a native garden and to be inclusive of all cultures at the school, Liz mentioned that she would have a Libyan boy next year as a student	To follow up with Watherong, namely David Tournier to consult on the space before we start any work on what is significant and important	Vicky	Ongoing
Art work on wall and as a sign to garden was talked about	Follow up on mosaic work	Vicky	Ongoing
Trees that are Dead and Weed species to be removed	Rebecca said her partner Tim who is a qualified arborist would probably be happy to do it	Rebecca	Soon as possible
Plan and Design of Site	Geology and Contour map of site to be done and	Rebecca	Next meeting
	Planning Map of area so we understand who are neighbours are and what restrictions on site emailed to Vicky and hard copy for meeting	Katie	Next Meeting
At Danawa John spoke about the problems when they had to have the water. Mains dug up and the disruptions it caused-stressed importance of dial before you dig	Dial before you dig	Craig	Next meeting

Was discussed public liability were we covered by the school	Find out wherever we are covered by the schools insurance	Liz	Next meeting
Governance stuff needed, eg management plans etc	Examples of previous ones to be found so we can cut and paste	Trish	Email to group ongoing
Funds needed for various actions already	Contact local councillor for a small grant to cover incidentals	Phil-Vicky to send forms	Next meeting
Design of Garden and plan of existing site	Measured plan of existing site and start of design	Pete and Vicky	Next meeting
Discussed that we should break up into smaller groups for different areas, suggested ·                     Planning and Infrastructure (This includes Artwork) ·                     Funding ,Promotions and Events ·                     Gardening and Maintenance of Site	Plan Groups	All	At next meeting

Notes: Danawa garden was beautiful, and gave us lots of ideas of what worked and what didn’t. We all liked the Mandela Garden and decided we should have one.  They garden communally due to people going away for long periods of time. They were given a tank by Barwon Water and had building built by the apprentices from the Gordon. Received Grants from Bendigo Bank, tables built by Men’s shed.  Have a share the bounty once a fortnight.  Pick and Plant once a fortnight.  There was a plan of the garden. Compost bins. We all liked the whiteboard with what needs to be done.  Crop rotation, through Mandela garden. Garden logo. Greenhouse that was donated.  Lots of water tanks. Shed for activities.  Are visited by schools etc, getting involved in local markets. Will keep in contact for ideas.