Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 106 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Food Faith Community Garden Members. Sustainable Communities Collection at the library. A vegetable garden and worm farm was set up at the Living and Learning Centre. This now provides the produce that is used in their cooking classes. The new garden has also helped raise awareness to visitors to the centre on how to grow food in a small space and how to recycle the vegetable scraps created from their cooking. It also demonstrates Council’s commitment to sustainable living in an urban space. Through the Sustainability Small Grants Program $1,100 was awarded to FoodFaith for their ‘Planting Seeds’ Community Garden. This project brings together different faith and community groups to promote social cohesion, food and environmental sustainability. Groups work together to plant and tend edible foods and learn about each others teachings related to food, spirituality, customs and sustainable practices. It is intended that excess plant food be donated to a local soup kitchen and that regular interfaith and intercommunity meals be provided. Greenwich Public School P&C was awarded $2,000 for their project ‘Frog Legs and French Flies’ which will turn a degraded area of land into a new mini aquatic ecosystem. This will support and expand the school’s indigenous frog population. Students will learn how a natural water course from drainage pipe outlets can be harnessed to establish a new, permanent frog habitat. The new habitat will focus on providing shelter, safety, protection for eggs, food and water for frogs, as well as encourage biodiversity through attraction of local fauna. The remnant turpentine forest canopy currently has little understory so students will be learning the importance for developing the lower layers of a thick understory and ground covers. The sustainability levy has allowed Lane Cove Library to further develop their Sustainable Communities Collection to provide educational and reference material on sustainability issues. New information was provided in multiple formats and for all levels of readership.