Lennox Community Gardens is an incorporated not-for-profit community group led by a management committee. Elections take place at our AGMs which are held in December of each year.
Jimi Gatland
Public Officer A long-term vegetarian, Jimi has had a passion for animals and the environment for as long as he can remember. But it was in 2012, during a year-long sabbatical throughout South-East Asia and India, that he developed a keen interest in the processes that brought food to the end of his fork. During this time, he worked alongside the likes of Dr Vandana Shiva and others who inspired him to find ways to remedy the damaging effects that the industrialised food system is having on the planet and our health. To that end, community gardening was a perfect fit. |
Graham Bond
President & Secretary
Sensational with a typewriter, dictaphone, and stapler, stupendous at shorthand, owner of an enviably equipped stationary cupboard; supremely incompetent gardener, but excels at dead heading; totally immersed in compost. What a man!
President & Secretary
Sensational with a typewriter, dictaphone, and stapler, stupendous at shorthand, owner of an enviably equipped stationary cupboard; supremely incompetent gardener, but excels at dead heading; totally immersed in compost. What a man!
Grant Jenkins
Vice President
Grant has had an interest in gardening since he was a youngster, but it wasn't until he had his own patch of ground here in Lennox Head that this casual interest has become a passion. Growing quality organic vegetables and particularly fruit (rare sub-tropical and tropical) makes perfect sense to him from every angle. Great for your health and mind, not taxing on our environment, challenging and hopefully even social.
Vice President
Grant has had an interest in gardening since he was a youngster, but it wasn't until he had his own patch of ground here in Lennox Head that this casual interest has become a passion. Growing quality organic vegetables and particularly fruit (rare sub-tropical and tropical) makes perfect sense to him from every angle. Great for your health and mind, not taxing on our environment, challenging and hopefully even social.
Dianne Carruth
Committee Member Originally from Scotland, Dianne started gardening in Glasgow after her children had grown out of football and cricket and she could reclaim the backyard. She particularly loves growing azaleas and rhodendrons. Dianne moved to Australia in 2016 to help out with her two grandkids and has been involved at the community gardens since they started. What does she love about gardening? “Digging! Getting my hands in the soil. It’s so therapeutic, so relaxing.” |
Clint Leahy
Committee Member A practising GP for more than 20 years, Clinton grew up in the Northern Rivers and has had a passion for all things botanical since he started planting eucalypts for koalas as a boy. He's still planting eucalypts (species such as tallowwood, Sydney blue gums and swamp mahogany), as well as subtropical fruit trees like ice-cream beans and mangosteens, on his property in Lennox and strongly believes we all have a connection to country and a vital role to play as custodians of the land we live on. |
"Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes."