LIGHTHOUSE Family Haven in Mooroopna is a wonderful facility for many families across the Goulburn Valley. With the help of landscape gardeners and community members, who are donating their skills and time to build a nurturing garden, the space will now have an outdoor area for attendees to enjoy.
It will feature herbs for cooking and wellbeing, a bike track and a water feature, and will all come together to ensure the outside area is a calm and welcoming space for the families.
The Family Haven, in Young Street Mooroopna, is a safe space for parents, carers and young children to gather, make friends, learn, play and share a meal together.
Situated in the former Ardmona Canteen, the site is owned by the St Alban’s Anglican Church which shares the location and is thrilled with the latest development.
Local landscape gardeners, Michael Hatton, of Michael Hatton Landscapes, and Karen Sutherland, of Edible Eden Design, have joined forces to design the garden.
Radio station Triple M has used its network of advertisers and sourced many of the supplies at little or no cost from local retailers including plants, soil and irrigation equipment.
Michael said the garden will be fun for kids and relaxing for parents and carers and welcoming year-round.
“Lighthouse explained to us that some of the families attending the Family Haven do it tough with life circumstances, including facing poverty and insecure housing preventing them from having a garden of their own. Hopefully this garden becomes a place to call home,” he said.
The outdoor space will be such a lovely addition to an already inviting and wonderful environment families come together to enjoy on a weekly basis.
“We won’t know ourselves, it’s all coming together so well” Family Haven Co-ordinator Courtney Wilson said.
“The garden will be a far cry from the barren, bindi infested yard that children and families had been utilising to date. This will be a wonderful, safe, welcoming and fun place for our families.”
