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Commenced:	01/01/2009
Submitted:	07/03/2011
Last updated:	07/10/2015
Location:	Charters Towers, Queensland, AU
Website:	www.crop-circle.org
Climate zone:	Dry Tropical

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After 20 years of planning, we now get to start with a blank page.

Project: The Crop Circle

Posted by Bryan West almost 14 years ago

Sometimes it takes a lot of time and conversation just to get to a starting point. Such is the case with the local community garden.

For about 20 years there have been conversations about getting a community garden off the ground (should that be in the ground, on the ground.??). Different people have had different roles to play, and different organisations have approached it from different angles. The local council allocated land, someone else got some money, someone else did something else, and someone else did....

Anyway, by the time it all seemed ready to go, someone changed jobs, this organisation morphed into that organisation, so and so lost interest, the money that was "in the bag" somehow fell out of the bag..

Some could find it frustrating.

After so many years, at yet another meeting, yesterday I left with one outcome, and it was the best outcome of all.

We now are not limited by history. We are free of past baggage, and we have the blessing of all those who have been historically involved to "just make the bloody thing happen".

The freedom that this affords us cannot be understated, and I feel so grateful to be in a position where the frustration of 2 decades is now a motivator and license to do well and do so without the limitation of compromise.

To speak metaphorically, it is a bit like succession, where a variety of pioneer species (ideas, organisations, people) were needed to create the conditions where the climax community can now take root.

Of course, a flipside to all of this is that now we have no excuse but to get down to work.

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