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Green thumb troops

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Dani Poulden in The Precinct’s new community garden at Smithfield Plains.

An army of volunteers have turned The Precinct’s community garden into a luscious space filled with leafy greens and pockets of colourful flowers.

At the beginning of 2021 the garden was simply an idea, but now thanks to these green thumb troops who have dedicated up to 800 hours building, growing and tending to the area – this is now what you see.

Dani Poulden of Blakeview, an avid young gardener, hasn’t looked back since she came across an invitation to help develop the garden.

“To be gardening with other people who enjoy gardening makes it just that much more fun,” Dani said. “It’s nice to have a similar interest to those around you and you’ll be constantly learning from them.”

Dani has spent two to four hours each week helping grow and adding new features to the community space in Smithfield Plains.

“They are always offering workshops, so there is always opportunities to learn more,” she said. “That was what I was looking for, to learn firsthand how to look after and grow my own garden.”

Each Monday and Friday gardening community catch ups are offered at The Precinct. The community meetings include workshops from learning how to grow seedlings to skills in pruning, soil management and creating your own compost. These projects help to develop the garden and keep on top of its maintenance.

Dani encouraged those interested in gardening to “come join a community garden” with like-minded people. “It’s the quickest and most efficient way to learn the things you want to learn,” Dani said. “If you ask someone, you are going to get five different answers back and they are all going to tell you different ways you can do it on different budgets.”

If you are interested in joining our green thumb troops at the community garden in Smithfield Plains call on 8256 0372 or keep up-to-date on the latest workshops on offer by searching for The Precinct on Facebook.

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