St Joseph's Primary School have officially opened their community garden at a ceremony on Friday, 28 March.
This community garden came about through Grenfell's involvement in the NSW Local Health District’s 2025 Building Healthy Communities Challenge, in which Grenfell was selected as a finalist alongside Manildra.
Grenfell’s initiative aims to promote sustainable, healthy eating and physical activity, by building and utilising community garden beds and using local, expert knowledge to build skills around growing and utilising fresh produce.
St Joseph's community garden along with greenhouses, compost bins, and worm farms and the garden bed at the Grenfell MPS formed Stage one of the initiative.
St Joseph's are working with Grenfell Food Hall, Grenfell Multipurpose Centre (MPS), Weddin Landcare, Grenfell Preschool, and Grenfell Men’s Shed to help support people in the community to access fresh produce.
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St Joseph's Natalie Caruana said it is very exciting as it is a project which started quite small, but took off exponentially in its growth.
"We've been able to pull together these amazing garden bds that have been central to supporting the Food Hall," Ms Caruana said.
"We're hoping that will continue to grow. But the expertise in doing that definitely lies with Weddin Landcare which we definitely would not have been able to put together as efficiently and effectively without their help.
Weddin Landcare's Melanie Cooper said Landcare have been able to be involved with the different workshops with all parts of the community, from the primary schools, the preschool, High School to the MPS residents and educating across the generations in terms of how to grow food, composting, worm farms and starting to introduce ideas of circular economies into the mix.
Ms Cooper said it was good to see that some of the students who don't enjoy the classroom activities so much getting outside and really getting involved and relishing these activities.
Ms Caruana said the student participation has been amazing with more than fifty percent of the students putting up their hands to take part in the school's garden club and help out in the garden.
Moving forward, Ms Cooper said if they are successful in the next stage of the Challenge they are hoping to expand a little with this garden and put some things in place to help manage it a bit better such as a storage shed, some further garden beds and work with the preschool as well.
Ms Caruana said the goal was for St Joseph's was the launching pad for other locations in Grenfell.
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