Kununurra Community Garden Kitchen

The Kununurra Community Garden’s mission is to create and maintain space for community to engage in organic gardening activities, to demonstrate and educate sustainable practices, to build community resilience and to create local food security using permaculture principles, in a fun and enjoyable way that also enhances a sense of community and belonging.

Core Values

We are an open and inclusive community which welcomes diversity of cultures and points of view with respect and resourcefulness.
We respect the integrity of the natural world, it’s biodiversity and it’s capability to nurture all beings.
We recognise the value of fun in empowering and educating our community about health and wellbeing through sustainable food growing in a wet-dry tropical context.

We endeavour to:

Provide space for community to engage in organic gardening activities.
Demonstrate and educate sustainable practices.
Build community resilience.
Create local food security using permaculture principles

Social and environmental benefits of community gardens

Community building/community development.
Community gardens provide hubs for local people to meet and develop friendships.
Provide sites for community engagement and intergenerational exchange.
Participate in activities that foster self‐help.
Build on local assets.
Develop links between individuals and groups.
Develop neighbourhood pride.
Community gardens encourage capacity building and development of organisational skills which can be used to address other community needs.
Provide volunteering and leadership opportunities for local residents.
Encourage access and inclusion by providing supportive environments that promote social inclusion (frail aged, people with disabilities, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, Aboriginal people).
Health and wellbeing.

Community gardens provide opportunities for:

Maintaining physical fitness.
Positive recreational activity.
Improving nutritional health.
Improving psychosocial wellbeing.
Development of community kitchens.
Production and consumption of fresh, organic, locally grown foods.
Education and training.

Community gardens:

Are an outdoor classroom for informal learning and formal accredited training courses.
Are a venue for lifelong learning and school‐based learning.
Provide opportunities for family education.

Arts and culture

Community gardens foster development of community art and cultural exchange, preservation of cultural practices of local indigenous communities.

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Environmental sustainability

Community gardens provide demonstration sites for living and consuming in a sustainable manner.
Local solutions to climate change.
Organic waste management.
Sustainable technologies.

Community gardens

Help to green urban environments contribute to food security through local, community food systems.
Reduce food miles.
Enable recycling of organic waste.

Cooperation with Local Government

Waste reduction

Major activities in the gardens will include recycling of organic matter through composting, mulching as well as use of recycled materials in the general construction of the garden space.

Water conservation

Use of rainwater tanks, mulching, planting low water use plants, use of low water use irrigation and permaculture design will minimise water use in the gardens.

Support biodiversity

We will be planting non-hybrid seeds of heritage or heirloom varieties so that seeds can be collected and saved.

Nutritional health

We will be encouraging positive recreational activity with the aim of improving physical fitness and psychosocial wellbeing as well as the production and consumption of fresh, organic, locally grown foods.