Participants were a combination of community members, teachers, church members, council representatives and groups who would be accessing the gardens e.g. disability groups, people who live with mental illness, older Australians, parents and teachers wishing to design and develop ‘outdoor classrooms’ for their school as well as local business representatives who supported the inception and building of the gardens by donations of fruit trees, herbs and money for earthmoving equipment and consumables to get the gardens started.
With the introduction of a Community Funding workshop at the end of each semester each group has been able to build and ‘sustain’ their gardens through applying for community grants and being successful in gaining the funding to build their gardens that have been all individually designed for each unique location.
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