Yep. We are preparing a community garden proposal for this year’s AGM, mindful of all the objections we heard 7 years ago when we tried something similar.
Our two biggest success for getting people mingling has been 1) having children’s playgrounds with adult seating adjacent, and 2) over the past few years, adding a generously paved area where we previously had just a basic wood BBQ and a dusty patch of worn grass, adding two large picnic tables where previously we had one small one, adding a pizza oven which is much more of a novelty than the BBQ, adding a picnic shelter roof over the oven and about half of the paved area. Now we can organise events without worrying about a risk of rain and there is a choice of shade or sun when using the BBQ, supervising kids at the adjacent playground or cooking pizza.
It helps that our site is self-sufficient for wood for the BBQ and oven.