Category: Community
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Taring Community Garden Flower Workshop
Come along and join us on Sunday 4th June for a workshop all about flowers and attracting bees into your garden. Taringa Community Garden | Facebook The Taringa community garden team of volunteers.
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Shayne Newman visits the garden.
It was a real education to drop into Brisbane Edible Gardening and catch up with Ketah and Jason today, and sample some of their produce. This fantastic local volunteer group grow a range of fruits, veges, bush foods and other edible plants, and provide advice to anyone interested in growing their own food. Food security…
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Leichardt Community Garden
If you are interested in establishing a backyard food forest or even thinking of setting up a community garden then getting involved with the Leichardt Community Garden is a great place to start. This awesome group of enthusiastic locals and gardening gurus are transforming a mostly bare block into a vibrant food forest for the local community…
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Volunteering Opportunities
We receive a lot of requests for visits to the Brisbane Edible Gardening experimental gardens and while we are thrilled by people’s interest, we don’t have tours. However, for those keen to see a food forest being created in our local climate and get hands on, we highly recommend getting involved with the Leichardt Community…
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Community Food Forests & Orchards Workshop
Highly recommend this Sunday’s (28th May 2023) free presentation from Gavin Hardy of Community Gardens Australia. If you are thinking of setting up a community garden, this presentation is a must. It’s also a great opportunity to view the Leichhardt Community Garden which broke the soil only 2 months ago by planting almost 100 fruit trees. To secure your spot,…
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Seed Libraries
Seed libraries are a well labelled and organised box containing seeds provided by the community. They can usually be found at crop swaps, edible exchanges or even on people’s mailboxes around the neighbourhood. Again, they work on an honesty system, locals bring their own seeds and exchange them for seeds already provided by the community.…
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Book Availability 2022
Brisbane Edible Gardening now has two booklets available. Available for purchase at: Paten Park Native Nursery (The Gap)https://ppnn.org.au/ Northey Street City Farm (Windsor), https://www.facebook.com/northeystreetcityfarm Jez’s Seedlings (Inala)https://www.facebook.com/jezsseedlings/
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Retirement Village Community Education
On Wednesday 28th July, Brisbane Edible Gardening visited the lovely Sugarwood Grove Retirement Village to talk about the best backyard food crops for our local climate. What an enthusiastic chat we had about edible foodscaping, lots of taste testing as well a local garden tour to see these wonderful plants in action (thank you Nina!).…
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Taringa Community Garden Edible Workshop
“On Sunday we had a wonderful presentation from Dr Ketah Silvester on resilient edible plants that are easy alternatives to the average salad and vege you might find in the grocery store. We will be swapping out the $12 lettuce for these! ” Claire (Co-ordinator, Taringa Community Garden). Brisbane Edible Gardening donated a tray of…
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