Christmas cheer in the garden this year
Into the spirit: Kim Lowe and Carolyn Heeps are part of a group of artists who decorated PepperGreen Farm’s gardens with Christmas baubles. Photo: PETER WEAVING
SOCIAL art and connectedness came with a festive flavour at PepperGreen Farm this week.
On Monday members of weekly community wellbeing art program left their Christmas decoration creations amount the peas, tomatoes and cucumbers of Access Australia Group’s social enterprise garden.
“We decided to do something that would give back to the community,” said facilitator Kim Lowe.
“We chose PepperGreen Farm to meet for a couple of weeks and created some Christmas baubles that we ‘abandon’ for participants of Access Australia Groups to find during their Christmas party on Friday.”
Lowe, a local artist, said that making and leaving the decorations was a way for the group she’s a member of to pay it forward.
“Part of our group is about reducing loneliness and isolation and bring people together with similar interests,” she said.
“This is a way of continuing that on into the community and hoping that our baubles bring joy and happiness to others.”
Located in North Bendigo, PepperGreen Farm is part of not-for-profit Access Australia Groups training and employment program.
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