Canberra City Farm has received approval to establish a new community garden at the Jerrabomberra Wetlands.
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The 10-year agreement gives the community group, and their partners in the Urban Agriculture Australia Initiative, access to 19 hectares of land next to the wetlands to develop an environmental education centre.
Canberra City Farm president Jodie Pipkorn said the new licence opened up a wide range of possibilities and has given the group certainty for the next decade.
"We're looking to use it as a teaching ground for new farmers so they can get a better idea of how to farm sustainably," she said.
"It'll also be a ground for the community to experience sustainability."
Canberra City Farm has been establishing 'learning hubs' through their community garden projects and have created a space for the community to share their knowledge about socially, economically and environmentally responsible food production and sustainable living.
"We're really a community group; developed by the community for the community," Ms Pipkorn said.
"We create education and demonstration hubs where people can learn to live sustainably and grow food."
They established their first City Farm on a site in Turner in 2014.
Ms Pipkorn said the group wanted something more certain than the two year license they were given for Turner and they wanted a bigger site.
"We needed something larger so we can do more with it, and the new site already had some infrastructure in place."
"There's a poultry shed there so we'd like to do some enterprise with chooks and look at some animal husbandry, for example."
Ms Pipkorn said the licence has been a long time coming but Minister for Territory and Municipal Services Shane Rattenbury was helpful in the group's search for a new site.
"We started the conversation about getting some more room around this time last year and a lot of the time since has been spent jumping through hurdles," Ms Pipkorn said.
"The site had a bit of asbestos on it so we had to wait until that was all cleaned up and there's just been a lot of toing and froing with negotiating the licence."
Mr Rattenbury was hopeful the new site would provide the space the group would need for their education hub.
"This new site at Jerrabomberra Wetlands will provide the extra space needed to exhibit small scale farming practices and sustainable living techniques," he said.
"This centre will deliver a range of educational programs for aspiring urban gardeners and community members to learn how to produce their own food in a socially, environmentally and economically responsible way."