WPS Community Children’s Garden

A HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who helped with the garden club working bee Sat and Sunday 14 & 15 May. A total of 14 adults & 10 kids rolled up their sleeves & got dirty (& rather muddy on Sunday) helping out. It was lovely to see some visiting grandparents joining in, as well as a Woodend community member who doesn’t even have ties to WPS.

Together we:

finished clearing out the “Look” garden
made a new path to the shipping container shed to repurpose the old soil
removed the prickly boysenberries
fixed the wheelbarrows
pruned the mint area
removed the rotten old seating and brought in the new seats
laid bricks to flatten the classroom site in preparation for our newe bench seating.

An amazing effort!!

Special thanks to:

Carl for making our amazing new bench seats
Rusty for fixing the wheelbarrows, including taking the tyres away to get them fixed
Clare for all the hard yakka & comms
Benji for donating and delivering snacks to keep our energy levels up

The next day the Garden Club students helped move the new seats into the cleared outdoor classroom space and road-tested them.

The WPS Community Children’s Garden can’t run without everyone pitching in - THANK YOU🌻

Volunteers needed: WPS Children’s Garden Club
Where:	Woodend Community Children’s Garden (Buckland St, Woodend)
When:	1.30-2.30pm Mondays - volunteers required to help Nicole run lunchtime Kid’s Garden Club.
	2.30-3.20pm Mondays - parent’s gardening session
BYO:	Bring your enthusiasm and desire to pitch in (No gardening know how needed). Please wear sturdy shoes, gardening gloves and weather appropriate clothing. Pre-school age children are welcome too
Sign in:	Please sign in at the Office before gardening (Working With Children Check required)
Contact:	Nicole Middleton 0418 233 366

If you can’t make it to the Monday sessions, but you can help out another day, simply contact me to see what needs to be done.

Volunteer WPS Gardening Group Facilitator

Nicole Middleton - 0418 233 366