When Graham decided to step back and resign as president, we lost the use of his trailer. We had used his trailer for picking up things for the garden, and especially bottles and cans to clean and exchange for much-needed cash from Containers for Change. Recently we were donated 50 trees from Landcare, and we […]
We managed to hitch a new trailer Read More »
We were successful in our funding application to the Queensland Government’s Gambling Community Benefit Fund. This means we will soon be working with council, Mecano and local plumbers to build a double toilet block on site, which will include one fully fitted out for people with disabilities. This will mean more workshops and more activities
We heard yesterday that we were successful in gaining funding from the council for a gabion herb wall. This is such welcome news! The wall will frame the garden, as well allowing us to grow a heap of herbs on a vertical wall. We are thinking we will keep the lower levels for children to
And our thanks go to the council Read More »
The gardens won Nestle Community Program funding, to the tune of around $7,000. Although we would like to be off grid as much as possible with just water tanks, we will be using their money to get town water onto the site, so we can continue to thrive in dry times. Thank you, Nestle for
We were successful in our NCP 2020 application! Read More »
December 5 is International Volunteer Day. What better day to go to Peregian to attend the Healthy Towns awards and find out that our garden was a finalist. If that wasn’t good enough a later announcement was that we were a joint winner with Palmwoods Community Garden. We won the award, which also has a
We won the 2019 Healthy Towns Award! Read More »
