LITTLE hands plucked plant seedlings from containers and plunged them into garden beds made with tyres painted purple, red, pink, yellow and green.
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Twenty-six children from Little Flippers Kindergarten this week visited Taree Community Garden in Wynter Street over two days to learn about gardening, to help to plant flower seedlings, potted plants and succulents and to see the tyres that they had cleaned and painted become garden beds filled with soil and plants.
The children feel very connected to the Taree Community Garden project, according to Talya Sedlen, as their parents rallied to the request for tyres for the community garden.
She is the Inventors room leader at Little Flippers Kindergarten and works with the children who are aged between three and five years.
“They see it as their project. When the tyres arrived we had a tyre washing day and they also helped to paint them using paint donated to Taree Community Garden by Bunnings,” Talya said.
“They cleaned them, painted them and it is just wonderful that they could put the plants in and see how the tyres look in the garden.”
The tyres cannot be used to grow food and so Taree Community Garden volunteers cultivated flower seedlings, succulent cuttings and provided plants to the children that were donated by members of the community.
“I think we painted about 20 tyres and they look wonderful.
“It’s an amazing garden, it’s really beautiful, the vegies are booming and it was such an exciting and educational experience for the children. They were touching the plants, feeling the leaves of all the different plants, and looking at the pumpkins.
“It was our first excursion to the garden but will not be our last. “This garden is wonderful for students but is also wonderful for families and we are excited to be part of it.”
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