I just discovered what must be the best use of land under high tension wires that I have ever seen. Ceres is a community based garden in Melbourne's Brunswick, a garden with a difference. Amongst the vegetable gardens and fruit trees there is a lily pond.
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Walk a little further and you see whimsical sculptures with chooks scratching around them.
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A notice on a fence describes the work involved with the free range chickens and invites people to take part.
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There is a green technology workshop, a solar paneled ablutions block, various descriptive projects that show you how water and electricity is used, a bicycle shop and a cafe selling local organic products that is very hard to walk past. Beside the cafe is a big "350" sign made of cut-outs. It is
a sign that unites people around the world who are fighting to make our governments commit to 350 ppm CO2 in the atmosphere