{"id":20237,"key":"Veg_Out_community_gardens,_Melbourne","title":"Veg Out community gardens, Melbourne","latest":{"id":1207271,"timestamp":"2025-11-27T21:54:14Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"[[File:ЦВЕТЫ 23. Рассада. Фото А. Щекинова.jpg|thumb]]\n\n{{Project data\n| links = http://web.archive.org/web/20161104224438/http://www.vegout.asn.au/\n| location = Melbourne, Australia\n| type = Community garden\n}}\n\nWhile walking around [[St Kilda]], a bayside suburb of the vibrant, lively city of [[Melbourne]], [[Australia]], you may happened upon the '''Veg Out''' community gardens.\n\nVeg Out is that it's a place where friends, families and community groups can share seedlings, gardening tips and life stories. This modest community garden encourages people to work together, on little projects and giant ones. It also reminds us that growing our own food makes us more confident, [[self-sufficient]], and wonderful human beings.\n\nAn article in a major Melbourne newspaper, [http://www.theage.com.au/national/an-oasis-of-friendship-grows-with-the-vegies-20090106-7b7c.html An oasis of friendship grows with the vegies] is about Lenny Pastro ([http://teamsuperforest.org/superforest/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/lenny.jpg image]) who has held a plot at Veg Out for the last nine years.\n\n{{Quote|\"I always worked hard, so what am I going to do now? Sit in my flat and watch the television? I'd rather be out here in the garden, there's always someone to talk to, something to do, I love it.\"|Lenny Pastro}}\n\n== External links ==\n\n[http://teamsuperforest.org/superforest/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/compost Fabulous, colourful, wonderful compost!]\n\n[http://teamsuperforest.org/superforest/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/plot Image - A plot at Veg Out costs about AU$150 a year to lease.]\n\n[http://teamsuperforest.org/superforest/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/greens Organic, chemical-free greens!]\n\n[http://teamsuperforest.org/superforest/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/philosophy1-500x375.jpg|500px|philosophy1]]The philosophy. Note the final line \"Gardening is an act of faith in the future\". How wonderfully articulated is that?\n\n{{Page data\n| license = CC-BY-SA-3.0\n| keywords = Community gardens, Sustainable cities\n| sdg = SDG11 Sustainable cities and communities\n| ported-from = http://teamsuperforest.org/superforest/?p=10469\n| organizations = SuperForest\n}}\n\n[[Category:Sustainable cities]]"}