The good life at Yarralumla community garden yields high spirits

By Susan Parsons
Updated February 1 2015 - 10:08am, first published January 20 2015 - 11:45pm
Vege feast: Some of Jennifer Yeats' of Yarralumla harvest including tomatoes, eggplant, zucchini and beetroot grown in the communal vegetable garden at her unit development. Photo: Jeffrey Chan
Vege feast: Some of Jennifer Yeats' of Yarralumla harvest including tomatoes, eggplant, zucchini and beetroot grown in the communal vegetable garden at her unit development. Photo: Jeffrey Chan
Sharing: Neighbours Jennifer Yeats and Allan O'Neil harvest vegetables from a communal vegetable garden growing in a thin strip of land at their unit development in Yarralumla. Photo: Jeffrey Chan
Sharing: Neighbours Jennifer Yeats and Allan O'Neil harvest vegetables from a communal vegetable garden growing in a thin strip of land at their unit development in Yarralumla. Photo: Jeffrey Chan
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Seven years ago Brett and Jennifer Yeats moved to one of 11 townhouses in Yarralumla designed in 1982 by architect Harry Seidler.  Allan and Pamela O'Neil moved in to the complex five years ago from their home in Weetangera.