Community

Mosaics to adorn community garden beds

By Andy Wilson

Oct 5, 2023

‘Wicking’ garden beds at the Euroa Community Action Group will be further beautified with mosaics.

The Euroa Community Action Group has received a grant from the Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal (FRRR) to help it support the health and wellbeing of the community impacted by bushfires.

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The $2568 grant will be used to beautify a garden as part of the development of a recovery arts program.

Group president Laura Baker said an artist would be commissioned to construct mosaic displays to complement the group’s already flourishing community vegetable garden.

The installation will add to a mural painted earlier this year by Gunaikurnai artist Aimee McCartney.

Ms Baker said the garden was founded on one of the group’s key missions.

“We are trying to bridge intergenerational connections from the elderly to kindergarten children,” Ms Baker said.

“We do this by promoting healthy eating and active living and hope it will develop those intergenerational bonds.”

The mosaics will be installed on the garden’s featured ‘wicking beds’, which are concrete cylinders designed to use minimal water for raising plants.

The wicking beds were made in 2022 in a workshop attended by 40 community members.

By Andy Wilson

Country News journalist