While Lyneham Commons was officially launched in July – and what fun was that! – there has been a tremendous amount of work before and after that great day. Here are some highlights:
- We have had 108 volunteers at our working bees
- We have contributed around 660 volunteer hours, just at the working bees
- Several people have contributed well over 20 hours each, just at the working bees.
- We have had 7 working bees and many smaller clean up or watering activities
- We have learned stuff, with wonderful people providing talks and how-tos:
- Cam- swales and berms
- Matt – planting bare rooted trees
- Ken – pruning fruit trees
- Sue – support plants and food forest design
- We have had more than 13 commoners planning meetings, 4 water group meetings and several design meetings.
- We had some wonderful media coverage – in the Canberra Times, on 2XX and 2CC, and of course, Costa Georgiardis who said a new food forest initiative in Lyneham as a “project of national significance”.
- We have completed the Staging Plan for next year and finalised our agreements with the ACT Government.
And, of course, we have commenced our planting:
- 7 fruit trees (white mulberry, pomegranate, 2 hazelnuts, 2 apples and a plum)
- supporting natives
- heaps of green manure plants including seed bombs. The snow peas were delicious!
Other gardening stuff included:
- digging 3.5 swales
- moving more than 40m3 of mulch
Most importantly, we had a great time – sharing food after each event and getting to know neighbours and our volunteers. We are all looking forward to seeing everyone back again in 2016!
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