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Mitchell’s Garden
The Mitchell’s Garden occupies a large town allotment. Besides the veggie garden, recently converted to raised beds, there are well-established flower beds, low hedges, a pizza oven, and an outdoor deck area.
Maintaining their patch is a true team effort. Sue is the creative gardening brain, and Stephen takes care of the lawns.
In our food garden
All the summer vegetables. They’re so rewarding to grow. The weather is warm, everything is bright and sunny, and you can literally see the vegetables growing.
We love sharing the fruits of our labour with family and friends and placing excess produce at the front gate for people to take. We freeze some produce and use herbs and flowers in the studio for selected creative workshops.
Standout sustainable practices
We use raised garden beds, rotating the beds between crops, use sugar cane mulch for moisture retention, sheep manure as fertiliser in conjunction with commercial fertiliser. We rotate the beds, always using one raised bed for making compost. Compost bed is made from soil, mulch, manure, food scraps, and fire ashes.
Top tip for novice gardeners
Look out for
Vegetables growing amongst the flower beds
Sue cooking free samples of tasty morsels made from her veggies.
A free activity for kids, plus one for adults too
For sale on the day
Veggie avatar
Sue - A tomato, I’m creative from my head 'to-ma-toes'
222 Princes Way, Drouin
Parking on Princes Way, at nearby Hilltop Milkbar and childcare centre. Additional parking in nearby Hearn and Bloye Streets.
The garden is wheelchair accessible. There are no stairs and few rough/uneven surfaces. Hearn Street Park has accessible toilets and BBQ facilities.
Creatives joining us in the garden
