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#98 Unit block front Lawn converted to vege garden

At a block of 8 units in Maroubra, four resident owners got together and agreed to convert their large unused front lawn into an organic vege garden. Their owners corporation agreed, a beautiful mandala design was created by Sydney Permablitz's Renata Field, resident and prime mover Kimberley did lots of good organising and on May 2nd a bunch of Permaculture Sydney East members, Sydney Permablitzers, resident and locals got it done - all in about 6 hours! That's a Permablitz!

In addition, fruit trees are going to be planted down the side of the block - we dug holes for those as well and filled them with straw and manure to get them nice and juicy for when the trees arrive!

See how quickly we worked in the video. Follow up photos or videos will be added so we can all watch it grow.

Maroubra Unit Block Front Lawn Permablitz

Kimberley - the one who dreamed it

Here's Kimberley whose dreaming brought this about - laying paper and cardboard as sheet-mulch to cover the grass before building the no-dig garden

Comments (2)

Looking forward to the updates. I would love to do this to my place.

Picture of user Peter Driscoll

I'd love to see lots of people do it to their place! Get in touch if you want guidance - permaeast@gmail.com

Peter

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