​Bethania Street Community Garden

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. #BethaniaStreetCommunityGarden #events #sustainability

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! #GardeningBee #volunteers #BethaniaStreetCommunityGarden

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. #BethaniaStreetCommunityGarden #events #solarcooking

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. #BrisbaneCityCouncil #BethaniaStreetCommunityGarden #events

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. #BrisbaneCityCouncil #BethaniaStreetCommunityGarden #volunteers

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. #WMCGGAGM #BethaniaStreetCommunityGarden

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. GOLD COIN DONATION - NO BOOKING REQUIRED #HarvestShare #events #BethaniaStreetCommunityGarden

Welcome to another year of interesting and enlightening workshops and events at Bethania Street. As well as our seasonal Harvest Shares (no booking required), there are opportunities to learn about organic gardening, poison free weed management, arts and crafts and unprocessed and fermented foods. Award winning local artist Megan Forward is also returning with a school holiday art workshop for kids. There's something for everyone at Bethania Street! Please check out our list

We recently installed some cypress mulch between some areas of our garden beds to reduce the area needing mowing and whippersnipping. The mulch and weedmat were purchased from a Brisbane City Council grant. This grant has also provided funding to cover much of our maintenance and consumable costs for the year. As always, we are very grateful for the ongoing support of Brisbane City Council. #BrisbaneCityCouncil #BethaniaStreetCommunityGarden

Despite the heavy rain, 25 people intrepid and dedicated people came to the garden for the Brisbane City Council Composting Workshop. Thanks to Craig for organising set up and morning tea in such challenging conditions! #BethaniaStreetCommunityGarden #composting #BrisbaneCityCouncil

Join Bethania Street's very own Linda B for Growing Organic Vegetables: Getting Started. Sunday 12 August, 9:30am - 11:30am It's easy to start a vegetable garden. Topics will include location, soil, building your garden bed, seasons in South East Queensland and plant choice. FREE - BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL - text your name, date of workshop (12th August) and number of places required to 0439 048 585. Your booking will be confirmed by a reply text. #events #BethaniaStreetCommunityGa

The first of our 2018 projects to be completed is the installation of new edging for the Fruit Grove. This will make mowing easier and keep mulch in place more effectively, helping with water efficiency. Thanks Craig and Tony. We are using Eco Decking (or Modwood) which is manufactured from recycled plastic containers and reclaimed wood. It is a sustainable alternative to timber. Another water saving project will be the installation of a wicking bed later in the year. #Garden

Despite very inclement weather, our recent Harvest Share saw about 30 people swapping some delicious produce. Members of the Graceville Community Garden committee visited for a tour and to see how Harvest Share works. They were impressed with our garden. Thanks to Soraya and Jenny N for being the official "tour guides". #HarvestShare #gardenvisit #events #BethaniaStreetCommunityGarden

The Gardening Bee workers focused on specific tasks in the garden, which the Wednesday gardeners decided they needed help with. These included pruning the pigeon peas that had grown to monster proportions. These pioneer plants. which also helped fix nitrogen into the soil, were great to start off our food forest, shading our young fruit trees, protecting them from the winds and sharing some nitrogen as well. By 'chopping and dropping' we used the prunings as mulch. Thank good

Our recent Annual General Meeting saw us welcome in our new Secretary, Linda Barratt (left). Linda is a keen home gardener and is a regular at our Wednesday morning Gardening Time. She is also the chair of our sub-committee for our garden extension, who are working on an exciting food forest project. We were also treated to a very informative presentation by local entrepeneur Erica Brooke, who runs her own natural skin care company. Erica told us about her business in which s

We're nearing the end of another amazing year at the garden! Thanks to all of our members and friends who have contributed to another successful year at Bethania Street. Gardening Time and Playgroup have now broken up until the new year with Playgroup resuming on Tuesday 10th January and Gardening Time resuming on Wednesday 11th January. We wish you a safe, happy and healthy holiday period, from all at Bethania Street Community Garden. #BethaniaStreetCommunityGarden

George and Casper, two very experienced gardeners, visited us recently to give us some advice on developing our new garden extension. It was a very informative and inspirational visit. Thanks George and Casper and thanks to Linda B for organising and facilitating the visit. #BethaniaStreetCommunityGarden #GardenExtension

Our 5th birthday party was a wonderful afternoon of food, music and catching up with old friends as well as making new ones. Thanks so much to Sandi for organising the event and to all the others who helped out on the day. Special thanks go to Cherie, one of our wonderfully talented playgroup mums, who made the most beautiful two layer raw birthday cake. It not only looked stunning but was absolutely delicious and very much enjoyed by everyone! Big thanks also to another one

Bethania Street Community Garden is having a party to celebrate its 5th Year Anniversary. The event is being held at Bethania Street Community Garden in Cox Park, Lota, on Sunday 28 August 2016 from 1:00 to 3:00 pm. We are inviting all past and present members and their families and friends and anyone interested in the garden. Please bring a plate of picnic food to share and chairs / picnic rug. In this beautiful local setting you will have an opportunity to enjoy live folk m