Using design to connect the community through local food production spaces.
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Learning Growing Using Sharing identifies and builds on the value of cultural diversity in the Broadmeadows area. By using the local Meadowbank Primary School as a hub for growing food, community cooking classes and food swaps, over time the food-growing areas spill out onto surrounding streets, making use of median strips, roundabouts and front yards. The diversity of the local community - 132 nationalities at last count - has been analysed to ensure that the crops grown meet their needs. Through the use of community gardens, public orchards and food swaps, the different cultural groups interact with each other. Eventually the local residents co-design the re-activated Myrlynston Creek catchment area, allowing this model of food production & sharing to spread even further into the Broadmeadows area.
A model for other areas.
Meadowbank Primary School.
Food gardens spill out into neighbouring spaces.
The spread of the connections from the school into the neighbourhood over 20+ years.
A variety of public food-growing spaces in the area around Myrlynston Creek.
Public fruit and nut orchards.
Community gardens at the edges of local parks.
Temporary use of local spaces for swapping fresh and preserved produce.
The local food system over time.
Learn Grow Use Share (Recycle).
Introducing the local area.
Analysis of food types consumed by the different cultures in the area.
Communication graphic showing the importance of each culture engaging in the different stages of the food producing project.
The market garden on the median strip outside the primary school.
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