CERES Community Environment Park
CERES is a non-profit community environment park beside Merri Creek in Brunswick East, Melbourne. It is open every day and is free.
The displays, demonstrations, talks and events show what we can do for the environment on a household, community and global level. CERES wants to make people more aware and take action on the environmental and social issues that affect cities.
In 1981, Council gave money and land to help set up CERES.
Council continues to be a principal supporting partner of CERES.
What's at CERES?
CERES has:
- Visitors Centre
- site tours Saturday and Sunday morning
- café with organic coffee and food
- nursery that specialises in indigenous plants, food plants and bushfood plants
- organic market every Saturday and Wednesday morning
- 2.5 acre organically certified market garden
- community gardens for local residents
- ecohouse with solar power, greywater and more
- urban orchard of 170 households in Brunswick and Northcote growing their own food
- programs for school visits and a school holiday program
- workshops in cooking, beekeeping, permaculture, feta-cheese making and more
- portable worm farms made from recycled Council bins
- food project that trains Kurdish and Turkish migrants to work in and run their own food business, and
- other projects, groups, festivals and events on the CERES website.
Files
- Moreland Tourism Map: (PDF 1Mb) a guide to what you can see and do.
