The 'Collingwood Children's Farm' in Melbourne is an amazing inner city playground. It is a working farm and sanctuary available to the whole community and our privilege to be able to meet their each week. This kind, nurturing place, full of wonder and the many moods of mother nature, sees as many different people as you'd imagine a city could hold pass through it's gates.
All are touched by natural moments of wonder and joy, a lick from a calf, a bleat from a goat, a garden in bloom, cockatoos wheeling and calling on a grey day, kookaburras laughing in the morning sun, busy hands in preparation for market day.
The farm staff are in constant, understated, steady attention to the needs of the animals, the gardens, the land and environs all the while providing for public comfort, education and wellbeing.
All are touched by natural moments of wonder and joy, a lick from a calf, a bleat from a goat, a garden in bloom, cockatoos wheeling and calling on a grey day, kookaburras laughing in the morning sun, busy hands in preparation for market day.
The farm staff are in constant, understated, steady attention to the needs of the animals, the gardens, the land and environs all the while providing for public comfort, education and wellbeing.
Bound by the Yarra river and the 'Abbotsford Convent' there is immense beauty to behold in both the place and the nature of what it gives in great bounty to the community.
I show my respect and acknowledge the Wurundjeri as the traditional caretakers and custodians of the land this all now stands on.
I show my respect and acknowledge the Wurundjeri as the traditional caretakers and custodians of the land this all now stands on.
