Chilli Dan

Dan and his home-grown hot smoking chilies

Lilli and Joe`s Garden

Lilli and Joe, participating residents of food Crop Collectors - a community harvest project and their beautiful, productive Woodburn garden.
Today we harvested loads of lemons, juicy tomatoes and some lemon myrtle, which are all free for the taking at the Mid Richmond Neighbourhood Centre.
Watch out for Lilli on the streets of Woodburn selling their beautiful home-grown organic seedlings.
Thanks Lilli & Joe for cultivating community, by the looks of this truly amazing garden, there will be plenty more produce...............cant wait :)

Free for all

 

 

The seedling house

 

room with a view

A sample of Lilli`s seedlings.....soon to be planted at the Hive

 

 

 

 

Our Lovely Shed

Today we welcomed our shed to The Hive Community Garden

Working Bee

Our very first `official working bee` took place on Sunday 16th February 2014. Community members came together and finally had a chance to dig!! Created was our first `in ground` garden bed, which is now filled with passionfruit and dragon fruit.
Yummo :)

Organic Fun

Happy Hanging Healthy Herbs

Our beautiful herb fence, made from recycled 2L milk containers is flourishing and overflowing with herbs. Community members are starting to harvest fresh thyme, oregano, mint, sage, peppermint, basil and chives.
Happy Hanging Healthy Herbs :)

Harvesting Wine........Fruit

Harvesting and collecting some Wine Palm fruit with local Evans Head resident Gary.
Sweet and delicious....

 

Sweet Sixty

A surprise formal luncheon was held to celebrate one of our members, Margaret, 60th Birthday!!
Initiated, steered and catered for by Donna (also a member of The Hive Community Garden), the formal luncheon was a beautiful birthday bash!!
On the River bank we sat, sang, celebrated and shared delicious food. On the menu was;
Thai fish cakes with cucumber , fennel and radish salad
Prawn and corn fritters with avocado salsa
Tomato, spinach and goats cheese tartlets
Satay chicken balls with coconut & lemongrass rice
and not to forget the dessert;
Mango, peach and passionfruit flan &
Chocolate, bunya nut and beetroot brownies
Yummo :)
Happy Birthday Margaret, may your new decade be bountiful.
A BIG Thankyou to Donna for all your effort, time, passion and community spirit

Donna, cooking up the surprise

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



It's Official

Yes, we can celebrate that Richmond Valley Council has approved 'The Hive - A Mid Richmond Community Garden'.  Thank you Clayton for all of your patience and hard-work; now lets get to it on Sunday 16 February 2014, 8am - 11am and start digging in the earth and planting the seeds.  Everyone welcome! Wear some comfy clothes and a hat and bring along whatever you feel might help get us started on our community garden project 'THE HIVE'.  The writer intends making a celebration cake!

Here is a little poem about gardens:

GARDENS

Gardens are more than
hooded flowers, tempting fruits
and living trees.
They are the birds
that sing and fly in them,
the wing-eyed butterflies,
the golden bees.
They include the sky
with sun and moon and stars,
the rain and snow;
they are the earth
with captured light from heaven
where plants and people grow.
A garden is a universe
that whispers soft and vernal,
“As it is above, so it is below.”

Waking, blooming, sleeping,
waking up again,
gardens are eternal:
they teach us all we need to know.

Thelma Palmer