A new community garden is laying down roots at a popular Footscray cafe.
The Cross Roads Community Garden will be sprouting at Happy River Cafe this month after an exhaustive search for a suitable location.
Landscape designer Tash Geelen says the shared garden space will be a place people can come together weekly or in their own time to do some planting or weeding, or simply grab a plant or produce that might catch their eye.
“We’re running it is as an open-style community garden where people can get involved in our meetings and sign up to help out, or just come down and help themselves.”
Ms Geelen initially wanted to start a community garden near West Footscray railway station, but when the location proved unavailable she cast her search farther afield.
She discovered a welcoming home at the Happy River Cafe, part of the Footscray Community Arts Centre on Moreland Street, and the project moved from an idea to reality.
Ms Geelen is hoping the garden will attract a broad spectrum of the community and that people will want to be involved in its upkeep.
Tools and water will be available when the cafe is open, or people can take their own any time. The garden is due to be officially opened on March 18.
More details: www.facebook.com/CrossRoadsCommunityGarden
