Graceville Community Garden

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In the article “It’s only a garden!”, community workers Jason MacLeod and Catherine Byrne (2012) reclaim the meaning and purpose of community organisation as a intrinsic aspect of community development, within Australia. The significant movement of community building to community organising and back again, was the centre of engaging local residents from the inner-south-west Brisbane suburbs, to collaboratively plan for a community garden in one suburb of what was a newly established ward of Tennyson (MacLeod & Byrne, 2012). This community garden idea was informed by pervious process of planning by the Brisbane City Council that focused on development and infrastructure, which was deemed to be beneficial for the community suburb of Graceville. The project of a community garden was initiated through community development, that commenced in the year 2009, where early preparations were put into place (MacLeod & Byrne, 2012).

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In addition, multiple underpinning values are present that are an essential element of community development. Values such as human dignity and worth; upholding the view that all individuals have a right to welling being, belonging; meaning cultivating connections with others, integrality; involving everyone and recognising their potential, and social justice; where striving for a just society is central (Lathouras, 2010) are displayed throughout the project development in Graceville. These values are of great importance, and those of which I resonate with as an emerging practitioner. The various developmental approaches outlined perviously have contributed to my own community development practice framework in relation to practice connections, and important aspects of community development as a

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