Plympton Community Centre Garden

The City of West Torrens recognizes community gardening as a valuable recreational activity that contributes to health and well-being, positive social interaction. Community Gardens are places where people come together to grow fresh food, learn, relax and make new friends. City of West Torrens also values the importance of providing continuous education which has lead to such activities as tours to the Central Markets



Community gardens engage and involve people in their own communities. They give people the chance to physically shape the character and culture of their neighborhoods, and to take responsibility for their common land.

Community gardens are a meeting space, bringing together diverse aspects of local communities. They allow neighborhoods to meet on neutral soil and provide common ground for people of varying cultural backgrounds, experiences, ages and interests.

The City of West Torrens will be setting up its first community garden at Plympton Community Centre. If this pilot project is successful, further community gardens will be set up around the Council area.








Michelle Mitolo



Community Development Officer

Community Services

City of West Torrens

Phone: 8416 6252

Fax: 8443 5709

Email: mmitolo@wtcc.sa.gov.au

Feedback from participants of central market tour Tuesday 17 November 2009

• This tour was way beyond my expectations

• This morning, I nearly convinced myself not to come; I thought it was going to be a boring ‘this is a carrot, this is a tomato’ kind-of-tour, but it was much, much more than that!

• I absolutely LOVED this tour.

• I have lived in Adelaide for 50 years, and one, I never knew these tour existed, two, I have never seen so many stalls that I hadn’t noticed before.

• Thank you for organising this tour, I had SO much fun.

• Can we stay for the whole afternoon?

• What is this bus used for? (Gemma explains) You need to do a targeted age-group mail out with explanation of the loop to local residents; its such a great service, and its needs more advertising.

• This tour has motivated me so much, I had so many questions answered, and want to stay and do the tour again this afternoon!

• Thank you, I had such a fantastic time!

• This tour has opened my eyes and shown me many aspects of the central market that I never knew existed.

Central Market Tour takes a SA Tourism Bronze Award

The Adelaide Central Market Tour recieved a Bronze Award in Category 12, Tour &/or Transport Operators in the 2009 SA Tourism Awards held at the Adelaide Convention Centre. The South Australian Tourism Awards winners represent the State's most outstanding tourism experiences in 27 categories. Our winners provide a benchmark for best practice in the tourism industry

Bhutan comes to Adelaide Central Market

Adelaide is the new home for our new Bhutanese community. 100 people forced to leave Bhutan and wait 17 years in refugee camps in Nepal, have been living in Adelaide for about 1 year. 15 of those came on a market tour today...a fantastic sharing of food culture and I cant wait to try some Bhutanese cuisine. Lots of rice that  is boiled (or steamed) and can be white polished rice (called ja chum)or a unique variety of Bhutanese rice which is pink in color (called eue chum).  mustard oil, curries, in Dzongkha those dishes are called tshoem and using very little fish. For detailed info on Bhutanese cuisine ..with recipes visit http://thinley.tripod.com/recipe/Foodintro.html




 Below is an article from the Amnesty website dated back 2008


Bhutanese refugees finally resettle
17 March 2008, 12:28PM


After spending 15 years in limbo, 17 Bhutanese families are the first Bhutanese refugees to leave Nepal. More than 100 000 Nepali-speaking Bhutanese refugees have been in refugee camps in Nepal since the early 1990’s. Most of them are Hindu and were forced out of Bhutan.

The 17 Bhutanese families first flew on Sunday 9th March from eastern Nepal to Kathmandu. They flew then to the United States and to New Zealand where they are going to be resettled.

In the 1990’s, measures to stress the majority Buddhist culture had threatened the ethnic Nepalese community in the South of Bhutan. Violence erupted and tens of thousands of Nepali speakers fled to refugee camps in Nepal. Until now, the Bhutanese refugees were kept in UN supervised camps without any resolution in sight.

A few months ago, the United States and a number of other countries included Australia agreed to take tens of thousands of the refugees. This does not mean that each case of the Bhutanese refugees has been solved.

While some Bhutanese refugees are leaving Nepal, the tension is increasing in the camps. Those left behind are experiencing violence and intimidation.

Some refugee leaders claim that the only true solution is complete repatriation to Bhutan and those who want to be resettled in another western country have been harassed and threatened.

Previously, the situation in the camps has been very disquieting. Earlier this month a fire destroyed the homes of 8000 refugees at Goldhap Camp in eastern Nepal.
www.amnesty.org.au/refugees/comments/10628/

Flying Food Safari swimming and feeding bluefin tuna

Flying Food Safari

Day 1
Outback Encounter
Flying Food Safari
www.outbackencounter.com.au




This is the starting point for the Flying Food Safari..Jump out of the 4 Wheel Drive pick up and onto the tarmac,  board the King Air private flight..20 minutes later we are eating  honeycomb  from the hives set under 300 year old Kangaroo Island gum trees.