The East Tamar Men’s Shed was approached in August 2021 by Kathy Flood, the Co-ordinator for Low Head Community Garden, to make some raised garden beds to go into a block of land allocated by Georgetown Council. We accepted the project which consisted of a hexagonal centre garden surrounded by six trapezoid gardens making a total diameter of 8.4 metres. The project was designed and coordinated by John Moody who has worked tirelessly building an organising an assembly production line of some dedicated members.
Kathy supplied used fence palings which were recycled by some members cutting them to size then passing them onto others to coat with a preservative and then given to another team to do the final assembly. Treated pine was used to make capping boards and split logs were used as posts.
Contributing members were invited guests at the opening and the end result was greatly appreciated by the organisers of the garden at Low Head.
The garden is in a council car park being developed just a little inland from the Lagoon Beach reserve. It’s worth a look if you are in the area. A great job John Moody and his team!