JOSH McPhee put his shoulder into his shovel on Wednesday at the BEST Food garden.
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The Dust Jacket owner arrived to add a legacy in the form of Cherry, Apple and Walnut trees and 12 English Oaks injected with truffle spores, on behalf of his family and customer donors.
He was joined by BEST chief executive officer Penny Alliston-Hall, social programs director Danny Middleton and chief financial officer Tom Sanderson.
Together, the four put the baby trees to bed and placed protective tree guards around them donated by GWYMAC Landcare. Penny said such spontaneous contributions enhanced and strengthened the garden.
“Having community members and businesses like Josh and the Dust Jacket to really feel they want to make this contribution just makes this so much bigger a project,” she said. Danny said the spirit of Josh’s intent is becoming more common.
“I’m turning up of a weekend and people have dropped off bags of chook food, people are donating money,” he said.
He was grateful to organisations were making anonymous contributions.
“That’s the whole idea; it’s about social inclusion and the whole community doing one thing to strengthen our community,” Danny said.
Josh was spurred to take part in the growing garden when he heard Danny make a presentation to the Inverell Chamber of Commerce.
“Best and Penny and Danny really represent what I would like to do,” he said.
“I probably don’t have the ability or the scope to do something on the scale of here, so to be able to donate trees or to be able to help out where I can on a do-able scale is something that is important to me, because I wouldn’t have a book shop if not for the community and Inverell.”