Honey Lane Market Garden
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From the market area at CERES you can look over at the Honey Lane Market Garden and see where some of the food you are buying was grown and harvested. That’s zero food miles! The abundant garden you see now was once a landfill site, and in the early days of CERES a simple garden and animal paddock.
In the late 90’s, CERES Farmers with the support of Work for the Dole participants, transformed a rundown paddock into the thriving market garden you see now. Honey Lane is only half an acre of land but contains a beautiful mix of fruit trees and raised garden beds, an aquaponics system, ponds, worm farms, a propagation area and an outdoor classroom.
Honey Lane Market Garden is a multiple use garden set up for farm education as well as food and seedling production. Thousands of school children pass through Honey Lane each year to learn about sustainable food production, reconnect with the earth and literally get their hands dirty. Honey Lane Market Garden has become much more intensively farmed in recent years, with the introduction of propagation in 2004, and aquaponics in 2008. In 2003 Honey Lane became Australia’s first certified organic urban garden.
Next time you’re at CERES walk through Honey Lane and marvel at what can be done with half an acre of former landfill.