Progress being achieved among our home gardeners - Lilydale Farm

Lilydale Farm in the Donnybrook area hosted a farmers day last year and we recently did a follow-up visit to see how the participants had done with the establishment of their home gardens. Although the success rate was fairly low, there was a standout individual with a thriving garden and healthy crops of maize, beans and butternut. According to Dougie Strachan, it normally only requires a single person within a community to be successful in order for other members to be inspired to continue in spite of any shortcomings experienced in their first attempt.

Whilst at Lilydale a group of unemployed youth requested assistance from HGA for the establishment of a project on a piece of land they have available on the farm. As a first step towards ascertaining the feasibility of this, soil samples were taken which were kindly analysed by Graeme Horne from Omnia.