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National Parks & Wildlife Services NSW granted us permission in 2016 to build a community garden on a strip of land at Bedlam Bay between the old Gladesville Hospital site and the Parramatta River. We received funding from Hunters Hill Council in 2017 to buy food-plant-safe timber sleepers and NPWS blokes built our first raised garden beds. We shoveled away contaminated soil and a Local Land Council grant paid for new soil in the geotextile-lined beds. We planted our first food plants bought from The Habitat in Ryde in Spring 2017.
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The Habitat donated endemic plants we tucked in at the end of our garden on the river bank connecting the small bird corridor. We freshened up 3 old glace cherry barrels, placed them along the rock face and planted a pomegranate, a finger lime shrub and an olive tree all donated from local families.

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