A town in WA’s south-west has just finished harvesting a first ever community crop to raise much needed funds for the town. It is a combined effort that brings farmers and other residents together at the busiest time of the year for producers
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00:00Christmas has come early for this southwest town, watching their first community crop
00:09being harvested.
00:10So it's quite exciting really, yeah, for the community, the local community of Boyarbrook.
00:16Local farmers have offered up their time and land to grow a variety of crops.
00:22And he's kindly donated 36 hectares of his own farm for the Boyarbrook community and
00:26it's, yeah, he's put it into barley.
00:29Aiming to raise tens of thousands of dollars for the town.
00:33Yeah, it's very exciting and hopefully bigger things to come.
00:37Money raised from this community crop will go towards upgrading the town's sporting club
00:43facilities.
00:44It just gives us a hope for our future.
00:48Aiming to replace these decades old buildings.
00:52It'll be a refurbishment of the current building that we're standing in front of, currently
00:57the football club rooms.
00:58However, this will become our sporting club room, so everyone will have a space and be
01:05able to use the facility.
01:07It also has opened up dialogue with the children around town for what the possibility is by
01:15doing this and being involved in it.
01:18It's so big.
01:20Okay, hello.
01:22This is the first year that the Boyarbrook community have come together to raise money
01:26for the town.
01:28It's a great initiative because it lets anyone become involved and learn about life living
01:33on the land, clearly.
01:36Kate Forrester, ABC News.