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    THE VOLUNTEER GARDENER

    Aug 08, 2018 4 minutes
    Words Claire Bickle
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    Kate Wall

    Kate Wall found her vocational calling just after the disastrous 2011 Brisbane floods. It all began when she decided to start a volunteer group to help Brisbane residents affected by the flood to clean up and restore their gardens.

    After six months of working in more than 150 gardens, Kate realised that “the garden was the place I was meant to be” and so began her career in professional gardening.

    Kate, who received a humanitarian award from Lions International for this immense service to the community, says gardening has now become her biggest passion in life and jokes that her husband Lee and son Ned, 9, would probably call it an obsession.

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