​Bethania Street Community Garden

A big thanks to Brisbane City Council for the Cultivating Community Gardens Grant funds.

This year this BCC money has provided the Garden with a new compost thermometer, materials for edging the food forest, materials for building our two bamboo trellises and supplies of organic fertilisers. This financial support is greatly appreciated.

At our recent Sustainability for Kids workshop, children learnt about the importance of the 3 R’s - Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. They were shown how to make beeswax wraps and planters from recycled milk containers. Learning these skills will build their sense of optimism, confidence, enthusiasm and connection to make a positive difference to the world.

Our garden has had a facelift! At the recent working bee twenty dedicated people not only replaced four of our old, deteriorated hardwood beds, with three new, longer Colorbond beds, but shared lots of laughter and delicious nibbles for morning tea. A huge thank you! 

Our recent Solar Cooking workshop was fully booked, with 12 participants making their own solar cooker to take home and enjoying a cuppa and cake, both made using solar cookers.

Our most recent Come Visit My Garden event was hosted by Bill and Linda Barrett at their beautiful and highly productive garden at their home in Thorneside. Established in 2009, Bill and Linda grow fruit and annual and perennial vegetables. A small composting system and chickens are also important parts of their garden. They ensure there is habitat for birds, lizards and insects so that these helpe...

Clytie Binder, from Brisbane City Council, presented a fantastic compost and worm farm workshop at the garden recently. 25 people attended and learnt many new skills regarding composting, how to start a worm farm and how to generally reduce household waste.

Some of our wonderful, skilled members spent a recent Saturday morning constructing two new bamboo trellises to give us more vertical growing space. 

Thanks to Brisbane City Council for funding the materials.

At our recent Annual General Meeting, 25 of our members enjoyed hearing from Toby Birtwhistle, from The Small Crop cafe in West Avenue, Wynnum West, who spoke of his passion for sharing locally sourced, sustainably prepared food. 

Our fabulous program of events for 2019 is now finalised and open for booking. There is something for everyone including Organic Gardening, Fermenting Foods and Household Sustainability and Bethania Street regular Megan Forward has some exciting school holiday workshops lined up for the kids too!

Our events schedule kicks off in March with Introduction to Organic Gardening and Lino Printing for...

Harvest Share Sunday 24 February 2:30pm - 4:00pm 

Celebrate and share the bounty from your garden and kitchen. Bring along herbs, fruit, vegetables, seedlings, jams, home baked goods, eggs (dated please) and enjoy swapping with other gardeners over a cuppa - or just come along. This is a community event so please bring your friends, relatives and neighbours. 

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