A Hidden Treasure

Here goes for my blog – a little insight of my small, quiet community.

I live in a small country town called Catani which is part of the Cardinia shire, and is a town that has a grand population of 500 people. The township itself consists of only a handful of houses, which are full of weird and wonderful people, a church, a community hall, and a recreation reserve. Catani is so small that the only public transport that travels through it is the local school bus! You could say that Catani definitely lacks when it comes to parks and gardens, unless of course you are talking about private gardens with the only street trees being the gums and pines that surround the local footy oval. Instead of the manicured landscapes most communities display, Catani is home to other kinds of large open spaces called properties. Properties that produce large amounts of vegetables such as asparagus, potatoes, broccolini and some cereal crops such as wheat and maize in the off season. As Catani is part of the KooWeeRup Swamp the ground we walk on consists of rich peat soil which is excellent for growing crops in. So who knows what the future holds for this hidden treasure, the resident horticulturalist to be could transform the not so interesting main street into something majestic and rejuvenate the old couch around the church and make it spectacular.