Red tape is threatening to choke the life out of a Melbourne community garden with decades of history, meaning and cultural significance to the people who tend it.
“I’ve lived in Abbotsford for 40 years… my dad used to farm here, I filled his gumboots, my children do now…”
“Six years farming here… before, I had come off the path; now, I’m back on a path…”
In the biting wind coming off the bend of the Yarra, a hundred or so gardeners, supporters and old lags — and a few curious joggers — were gathered last Saturday morning outside the community garden of the Collingwood Children’s Farm to talk about growing stuff on small plots in the midst of a big city.
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