SPR Summer 2022 Newsletter

Laying the foundations for a thriving community garden 3 Working with the Spring Mountain State School P&C, the Springfield Rise Lendlease team took part in a special volunteering day for Lendlease’s annual Community Day, where they painted garden beds, planted seedlings and fruit trees, assembled a shed and laid mulch to create stage one of a thriving community garden. The working bee at Spring Mountain Community Garden is one of almost 100 national physical and virtual causes selected as part of Lendlease Foundation’s annual Community Day initiative. Spring Mountain State School P&C Community Garden Lead Cassie Boulter said it has been a collaborative effort to design and develop a community garden that everyone can work together in and enjoy. “The garden is a place for the community to access freshly grown produce and plants,” Cassie said. “Once it is fully completed, it will be available to the teachers from Spring Mountain State School as a space to be incorporated into the students’ learning as well.” The establishment of the garden was made possible through funding by three grants programs - Springfield Rise Community Grants Program, Lendlease Junior Landcare school grants and Ipswich City Council’s Infrastructure Grants, alongside in-kind support from Eureka Landscapes, Hedge Property Services, Coates Hire, Dulux, Bunnings Springfield Central and YMCA Springfield Lakes. The next Springfield Rise Community Grants round will be announced in early 2023 – stay tuned to our Facebook page to be the first to hear more! A group of hardworking volunteers rolled up their sleeves to create a shared garden for the Springfield Rise community to enjoy. Calling all green thumbs! The Spring Mountain Community Garden is welcoming residents to come and adopt a garden bed. After an incredible Community Day working bee, the first stage of the garden is now open for use. Find a garden bed you like, with most already filled with soil and plants, as well as a cleared area for another four beds if anybody is wanting to build their own. There is also a series of fruit trees that have been planted onsite including: blood orange, orange, tangelo, mandarin, lemon, lime, mulberry and room for three more trees so far. With the warm weather upon us, feel free to utilise the onsite watertank and watering cans to give the garden beds a drink. Also new to the garden are compost bins, a worm farm and some native stingless bees to help pollinate the garden. The garden group would love for families in the community to put their hands up to adopt a garden bed and keep it thriving. Feel free to reach out to the Spring Mountain Community Garden Facebook page to help out: www.facebook.com/groups/1646250395765988/ Adopt your own green patch