Jim Fry wrote: Seems like maybe you would have to have a very dedicated group of folks in order for a food forest/play area/dog park to stay neat and clean. But, since I've never been involved in such an effort, I have no idea. Best of luck.
We are looking to basically take ownership over the park, with a part time caretaker employed, hopefully paid by the council, instead of the current contractors who just come in a mow within an inch of the lawns life and
spray the hell out of everything. We also want the
local primary school to be involved with learning about trees and
gardening so with a bit of good design and intent we will have the committed people. Kiwi's love a
free feed, like most, and with that in mind there has been discussions around community barbeques / working
bees...
It borders on a river of significance also which we are hoping to get involved in riparian planting to help the local whitebait population thrive.
It is a large area, and using zones will are trying to keep the childrens playground/rugby field and dog park fairly separate from the orchard part...
From my rough base map you can hopefully spot the shaded area where the actual 'dog park' part is and the playground is to eastern end..
The red dots are roughly 5m to scale conceptual placements of fruit trees and the red squares in the western end conceptual raised beds, etc for planting..
I guess there must some literature around about dog friendly gardens...