Category: 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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Pullenvale State Primary School
We have been working with the wonderful Prep kids, Teachers and Parents at Pullenvale State Primary School to revitalise their outdoor play space, incorporating many edible, native and sensory plants, artworks and native bees. Plantings include Sambung, All-Herb, Perennial Basil, Brazilian Spinach, flowers, native mulberries and Sandpaper Fig. And who can go past a play…
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Samford Edible Exchange
Article by Anna Fawcus. Samford Edible Exchange is for local residents to use at their leisure. We support of War on Waste How it operates Open 24/7. Locals will drop off their excess produce, egg carton, glass jars, bags, pots, plants etc, then take what they would like, this doesn’t necessarily have to happen on…
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Mount Crosby Community Food Swap
The vibrant Ellice Hawkey started our local Community Food Swap back in 2019. The following is her guidance on Community Food Swaps. Thanks Ellice! How does it work? Besides being a money-free event, there aren’t many rules. As long as both the swapper and swappee are happy with a swap, it’s all good! You’ll likely…
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Booval Edible Exchange
Jason Hauser created a group “Booval Swap Cart” to make sharing produce and edible plants an option 24/7. You can check out what people have put on the cart by visiting the group anytime. If you have something you are placing on the cart please post on the group so everyone can see Located at…
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Froggy Creek Street Library
If you are looking for someone who is passionate about the community and native ecosystems, look no further than Vicky Mills. Not only is she the 2022 Frog ID champion but she also started the Froggy Creek Edible Exchange and the Froggy Creek Community Library. Vicky and her helpers have worked tirelessly to support the…
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