Arid Edge’s successful Amern Mwerr Good Food Gardens approach developed in the Utopia Homelands is now being expanded to Alice Springs in 2019-20 in partnership with Tangentyere Council, NT Health and PHNNT.
The project is establishing 7 food gardens (and associated landscaping) in
community centres in Alice Springs Town camps, as well as providing support to gardens located at Red Cross, Alice Springs Women’s Shelter and other locations.
These gardens will become a site for producing home grown food, for socializing and for learning about heathy eating and hygiene practices. Crucial to the project’s success is Arid Edge’s approach of providing long term fortnightly/monthly support to gardens and gardeners, organising working bees, training gardeners, providing maintenance support and most importantly cooking up produce together in the gardens.
Client
Tangentyere Council, NT Health and PHNNT
Project scope
Amern Mwerr Good Food, landscaping
Location
multiple locations, Alice Springs
