Collingwood Children's Farm

About this venue

In 1979, a community committee, with support from the former Collingwood City Council, leased a small area of the Convent for a Children’s Farm. The Committee hoped children living in an urban environment, often without backyards, could learn to care for animals and nature and also have fun outdoors. Local schools and other groups helped with fencing, gardening and animal care. Members of the Greek Elderly Citizens and the Turkish Welfare Group helped clear weeds and carve out the community plots. Since the 1980s, State and Local governments have funded some of the Farm’s costs. State and Federal Labour governments supported our successful bid for a much larger area of land. Now the Collingwood Children’s Farm Committee of Management manages this Crown land site. Service clubs and philanthropic trusts help the Farm, but the largest part of our operational costs always comes from entry fees, donations and through the work of volunteers. Collingwood Children’s Farm respectfully acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people as the Traditional Owners of the Abbotsford Precinct Heritage Farmlands; the lands we respect, care for and farm on behalf of all Victorians. The Farm thanks all Wurundjeri Elders past and present for their guardianship of these lands. Geological processes have changed the course of the Yarra River many times. Following uplift of the region five million years ago, the Yarra River flowed through a wide mudstone and siltstone valley north of the Farm between Kew and Northcote.

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Why planners choose this venue

• ✓ Historic barn
• ✓ Oak Tree area
• ✓ Yarra Bend setting
• ✓ rustic
• ✓ heritage

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