View fullsize Look out for our State Heritage site placemaking update, at all our entrances (Tatachilla Rd, Aldersey St & Main Rd McLaren Vale)✨ A mail out of our community flyer is also underway this week to local letterboxes…if you miss out, DM us you
View fullsize Little Joan’s grave aglow, backlit by the sunset…(the things I notice, the more I spend time here). Our last community gardening session in the cemetery is Wed 8 April 10-1, before we have two weeks break for school holidays. We are st
View fullsize Transformation (on lots of levels); for this oldest church in the village, & for those who showed up to the first community / cultural event in the (almost empty) sacred space…in its new role. The chapel is truly a wonder-FULL space, with
View fullsize Happy Autumn Equinox for Saturday✨ This week, community gardening (planting!) is Wednesday 9-12. And we are also preparing the chapel (the first church built in The Vale) for community use again; emptying, cleaning and restoring this Tuesday, Thursd
View fullsize Am going to share inspirational books I am reading in relation to gardening, regeneration, placemaking and art, and especially the overlaps between all of them! 🌱 Enjoy! And stay tuned for a community newsletter, soon to be printed, about all the
View fullsize Wise words from a cup whilst taking tea in the cemetery garden this morning, the same cup as one from my childhood…and on the rear: Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved. And gardens are that for me too🌱 Yesterday, two
View fullsize This is called…putting in an irrigation system…a current work in progress💦 (I have learnt a lot) What a project! Many thanks to McLaren Vale community op shop for funding support, & to our gardener Glenn plus irrigation specialist
View fullsize COMMUNITY GARDENING is 8-11am, Wednesdays, during school terms, when the temperature is 30 degrees plus in McLaren Vale on BOM (instead of 9-12, on other days), to beat the heat a bit🌿 There are always different jobs on offer…tomorrow we are
View fullsize Join us! Pictured, are some of The Culture Garden’s community gardening volunteers…celebrating the end of 2025 gardening, in December. We baked, ate & drank to our good work, & the flourishing of The Botanical Cemetery garden🌿

Rewild the world…

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