The unique path in Australia just needs to

In a small town in Queensland there is an extremely special path, especially because this is an "edible" path.

That's right, it's "edible"!

On this road on both sides of the road, there are all kinds of organic, fresh and nutritious organic fruits and vegetables. Just take a bite and you will feel the sweet feeling without any expensive fruit.

You can pick a tangerine if thirsty.

When hungry, you can eat a banana.

Everyone on the walk had vegetables brought home.

That's right, really happy like that!

Most importantly, the fruits and vegetables here "DO NOT NEED TO PAY!".

Because fruits are so expensive, they turned this road into a fruit garden

Urban Food Street is located in Buderim in Sunshine Coast, Queensland and started in 2009.

At that time, an orange in the market was priced from 1.5 to 2 USD, this expensive price made people feel very dissatisfied, so Mr. Duncan McNaught and Caroline Kemp lived here decided to plant themselves. Get food.

At first, they just wanted to grow some orange trees in their gardens to satisfy themselves, but then they thought and decided to plant on both sides of the road, so everyone could pick to eat.

And so the next day, they immediately planted trees on both sides of the road.

Mr. Duncan McNaught and Caroline Kemp.

Everyone responded to the tree planting movement together.

This idea of ​​theirs has also attracted other people to participate enthusiastically, soon after, more and more people started working on it, turning this road into a vegetable garden.

Gradually, the number of fruits and vegetables grown on both sides of the road is getting more and more, the original way of growing orange trees has now been expanded into a large farm with 11 road branches filled with fruits and vegetables.

Fruits, vegetables such as bananas, kumquat, pomegranate, dragon fruit, strawberry, wild strawberry, tomatoes, kale, potatoes, lettuce, sweet potatoes, cabbage, mint, pepper, thyme . ., what you want is there.

A whole garden of green vegetables .

. along with the fruits.

Artichoke flowers.

One of the starters of the idea, Duncan McNaughty, said: "The problem people often face when cooking rice is suddenly discovering that the house is out of seasonings, but it is dark and driving to buy. spice is not convenient, now it is not necessary anymore, we just need to go to the street, need to pick it up. "

"So, just help to drive to the market, reduce pollution, and you can walk and exercise, an arrow hits two targets".

Also, even if you don't want to plant it yourself, you can still use vegetables grown on the road for free.

People can use all kinds of vegetables on the road for free .

. and no need to go to the market far away.

Ms. Caroline Kemp shared: "Those who do not plant trees will provide irrigation systems or share with people jam made from fruits". There are even people who do not live in this area also come to just to participate in the joy of cultivation.

"Everyone has a different way of giving."

"Our common thinking is: join hands and share !"

"Everyone works together, and then everyone shares the fruits of their labor."

In 2015, this vegetable village collected 900kg of bananas and 300 cabbage in total.

People together build hands .

. and share the results.

Along the road planting fruit trees.

Everyone's relationship is harmonious thanks to this vegetable and fruit road

In addition to being able to eat free fresh vegetables, the most important effect of this path is to make people more united and more harmonious.

Caroline Kemp said: "Every afternoon, the children in the area go out to play very happily, playing football, playing games. And everyone will bring the basket to pick up vegetables."

"People no longer just waved when they met on the road like before, now they will stop talking, they also choose a date to meet, the relationship between neighbors is also closer".

"This feeling is like everyone is a single person."

Children have fun on the street.

Affection of the people is also increasingly linked.

Bring design ideas close to nature to the city

Being an architect, Caroline Kemp said: "The growing city gives us a lot of utilities, but at the same time it also increases the inconvenience, such as our growing distance. with nature ".

"But on our vegetable and fruit road, people just need to go out to have a feeling of entering nature, full of green feeling, fragrant fruit, the scenery is even more beautiful than the park. again useful ".

"In addition, the climate in our place is quite hot, this number of trees provides a lot of shade for this place and brings more convenience for people to exercise."

"We hope through this approach to change the concept of city design in the past, creating a friendly living environment, protecting the environment as well as a healthy, healthy lifestyle."

What a friendly living environment.

Children involved in labor .

. and learn.

This road full of vegetables and fruits has solved all the problems that concern us like safe food, city pollution, neighborly relationships, healthy life.

So we can also understand why so many people want to move to this area. Even the people here after selling the house have to write in the leaflet that Urban Food Street is a great place. A website that introduced this neighborhood has 2 million visits, everyone comments that they want to come here.

Fresh and delicious bunches of green vegetables.

Looking at this road, everyone probably wants to move here!

Currently, residents of this neighborhood are based on the idea of ​​this veggie road to design a new category to help people in other places perform street renovation, creating a self-sufficient neighborhood. self-help, sharing food, good for health and close harmony.

Maybe one day we will all live in a place surrounded by green trees, fragrant fruits, full of joy like this .