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Commenced:
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01/01/2009 |
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Submitted:
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07/03/2011 |
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Last updated:
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07/10/2015 |
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Location:
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Charters Towers, Queensland, AU |
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Website:
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www.crop-circle.org |
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Climate zone:
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Dry Tropical |
Connecting our town through home grown produce and knowledge.
The Crop Circle seeks to connect our local town of 8000 people. We meet regularly to share the surplus food from our vegetable gardens. Starting in 2007 with 2 families, we now have over 150.
We share fresh food, seeds, compost, worms, and anything else that might support the community to produce more of its own food.
Perhaps most importantly, however, is two things:
1. the collection and sharing of genetic seedstock that is adapted to our challenging climate and "soils".
2. the collection and sharing of knowledge that is connecting people in the town who would otherwise remain disconnected.
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If you plant it, it will grow
Perhaps social systems have a tipping point just like natural systems - or so our local gardening group would seem to suggest.
After 20 years of planning, we now get to start with a blank page.
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.