A Greener Kent Town
In 2020, in collaboration with the Norwood Payneham & St Peters Council, a successful application was made for funding to Green Adelaide for a Greener Kent Town.
It paid for the planting of more than 100 trees, rain gardens and landscaping.
In the interests of assisting other community groups to seek funding to green their own community, and to inform our own members, we attach here a copy of the funding submission we made.
Welcome to Greening Kent Town News
One Off One Hour Community Garden Working Bee
April 1st Community Garden – back of the SACWA building off Angas St If you have an hour to spare on Saturday April the 1st (3:30-4:30) we have a few bigger…
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Kent Town community group greens public street
From Green Adelaide A local community group boosted the green space in Kent Town with the help of a Green Adelaide Grassroots Grant. Find out about their project and how…
KTRA response to Draft Tree Strategy
March 2022 The City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters provided an on-line form to respond to the Draft Tree Strategy. There were 6 sections: Identify & manage; Protect &…
November in the Community Garden
On the last Sunday in November we met to continue with summer planting and do some maintenance in the garden. John Phillips, a resident at Eldercare’s College Green retirement village recently…
October News
Sunday 31st October was our most recent Community Garden working bee. The veggies planted in October are growing well. Jane planted 3 punnets of beetroot seedlings and we tidied the citrus…
Tree Mapping at Prince Alfred College
A collaborative project between Prince Alfred College, UniSA Geoscience department and the KTRA culminated in tree-mapping workshops with 2 groups of Year 10 students, during the last two weeks of Term…
Summer Planting
Gardeners and friends met on Sunday 26th September to do our summer planting. David Shores made rustic supports for the tomatoes, which look great. Seedlings were planted- lebanese cucumbers, tomatoes,…
Planted VegeTrugs at the Brewery Apartments
Related posts: Community Garden-VegeTrugs November in the Community Garden KTRA Community Garden Progress Report Summer produce Spring Onions April 2021 Update
Community Garden – August 2021
The Community Garden group met last Sunday, 29th August. We had a short working bee, refreshing the beds with compost and more soil ready for summer plantings. The leafy greens need…
Tree Incentive and Native Plant Give Away
The NPSP Council has two program that Kent Town residents might be interested in. Tree Incentive – property owners can request a $80 voucher towards the purchase of a tree…
Final stage of Grenfell Street Verges Project
Towards the end of June NPSP Council prepared 2 more verge sections on Grenfell St for planting. Despite 40mm of rain the Works gang had completed the preparations within 2…
Community Garden-VegeTrugs
Kent Town Residents Association successfully applied for a Community Grant from Norwood Payneham St Peters Council late last year, to purchase raised garden beds to extend our Community Garden project….
Greening Little Capper Street
Recently, KTRA assisted one of the residents of The Brewery Apartments, Meredith, with her greening and beautification of the space at the northern end of a car park on Little…
Dequetteville Terrace Verge Planting
Residents of The Brewery Apartments held a working bee on June 3rd to upgrade the verge gardens along Dequetteville Terrace. Kent Town Residents Association supported the working bee by providing…
May Meeting
Last Sunday, 30th May our community gardening group met at the garden to do some tidying up. We pulled up the fennel (no bulbs had formed, just…
The Team at Work
Related posts: Verge Works in Kent Town Dequetteville Terrace Verge Planting Greening Little Capper Street Final stage of Grenfell Street Verges Project Tree Incentive and Native Plant Give Away KTRA…
April 2021 Update
Our regular monthly get-together wasn’t held in April because it was the Anzac Day long weekend. Our next working bee/meeting…
Verge Works in Kent Town
This week the Grenfell St verge planting project finally got underway. NPSP Council staff removed the dolomite, replaced storm water pipes and spread loam over the 4 verges which form…
Three levels of Government should be able co-operate in the greening of Kent Town
Summary All three levels of Government state, in their respective official documents, the importance of accessible green open space for the physical and mental health of people and biodiversity and…
A Kent Town public park: a lost opportunity?
There will be few suburbs in South Australia without some publicly available open green space, ranging from large suburban parks and sporting fields to smaller community parks. Kent Town is…
Moving the wicking bed
Recently the SACWA asked us to move the third wicking box back against the wall because someone had tripped going around it, into the…
February report
No garden working bee this month, but here is what’s available! Eggplants coming along very nicely, capsicums ready if you like them green and lots and lots of basil. The…
January get together
This month’s working bee was fairly short as there wasn’t a lot that needed doing. The pumpkin vines are growing furiously and there are around 12 moderate sized…
Spring Onions
Related posts: Next get together Summer produce February report Moving the wicking bed May Meeting Mid month report November 2020
Summer produce
Visit the Community Garden with a bag or basket for the next few months! Our summer vegetables are ripening fast. These are the first of the spring onions and there…
Mid month report November 2020
Summer is coming and the strawberries are looking delicious while the zucchini are starting to make fruit. We have lettuce coming on, tomatoes needing some more consistent sunshine and cucumber…
November 1st update
Last Sunday 7 gardeners gathered to work in the Community Garden. We picked beetroot (and there is some ready for others to pick) removed lettuce and chinese broccoli which had…
Next get together
Our next get together/working bee/meeting will be 1:00pm Sunday 1st November, SA CWA Dequetteville Terrace. Related posts: Summer produce Spring Onions February report Moving the wicking bed May Meeting…
Community Garden August update
During July we planted the 3 wicking beds with salad greens (including some advanced lettuce donated by a Kent Town resident, thank you Mary) and peas and David finished construction…
KTRA Community Garden Progress Report
The three wicking beds purchased by KTRA (from Adelaide Hills Veggie Gardener) arrived on June 19th and were put in place at the back of the SA CWA premises on Dequetteville Terrace….