Swap and share at Meredith garden

GROWERS are invited to the Meredith Community Garden’s first-ever Food Swap at the Sharing Shed next month.

People are encouraged to bring along their home grown, farm grown, homemade, community garden-grown, or foraged produce to share and swap with other attendees from across the town, and wider district.

Meredith Sharing Shed co-founder Chris Ardrey said he expects the initiative will become a regular event on the first Saturday of every month.

“I’ve had feedback that a lot of home gardeners around Meredith have a lot of excess produce, so some of them will be bringing that along, while others have said they’re keen to share seeds and seedlings,” he said.

“It’s a good opportunity for the community to get back out after COVID and start talking to each other again.”

Meredith Primary School’s grade 5 and 6 students are leading the development of the community garden project as part of the Sharing Shed’s Nurturing Young Minds for the Future program.

“The garden is going well and there’s quite a lot of people using it from the community,” Mr Ardrey said.

“It’s full of potatoes, garlic, spring onions, spinach, lettuce, cabbages, cauliflower, peas and tomatoes.”

Earlier this month, students led a letter box drop, distributing fliers about the food swap which will take place on Saturday, 1 October from 9.30am to 12.30pm at 10 Wallace Street, Meredith.

Anyone is welcome to attend to simply have a chat, and enjoy tea and coffee inside.

Register a place with Mr Ardrey at [email protected] or on 0411 174 804. Tables will be available to those who register, or people are welcome to bring their own.

Later this year, a community garden committee will be established to run the space, as the Sharing Shed will hand it over to the public to operate.