The GOAT of community gardens

The orchard had been forgotten about for years, with fruit going to waste by the kilo every year.

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apples are among fruits grown

The building, maintained by the council’s under-resourced environmental department, was largely shuttered up and in disrepair.

"Another couple of years and this would have been gone," Victoria said, gesturing at the building around us, which stands at the entrance to the gardens and is used alternatingly as a base of operations, events space and classroom. “The council gave me the keys - I could see the potential straight away.”

Her first step was to organise a community harvest.