Tuesday 31 December 2013

Thankyou 2013


 
Thankyou to all the Hive Mid Richmond Community Garden crew for all your time, energy, commitment & community spirit throughout the conception & design phase of The Hive in 2013.
Looking forward to growing in 2014 :)
 
Final Evans Head sunrise for 2013
 

Tuesday 24 December 2013

The Hives Logo - Competition WINNER!!!

A huge BIG thankyou to all the Hive Community garden crew. A particular thankyou to Amanda (pictured handing over the $100 cash prize) for taking a whole day out to hit the streets of the Mid Richmond & delivering more than 1000 flyers inviting community members to take part in the competition. Brilliant job Amanda!!
We received entries from all localities in the Mid Richmond, from Bungawalbyn to Broadwater & all in between.
Thankyou to all the brilliant community members who took part & produced beautiful, artistic & creative logo designs for The Hive......Totally amazing!!
So........................................................................................
Members of The Hive Community Garden came together last night & the winning logo was chosen!!
The new identity for The Hive - a Mid Richmond Community Garden was born.
and the Winner is...

Designed and drawn by Mikayla Kennedy (pictured receiving the cash prize) and Kate Geering of Woodburn.
CONGATULATIONS, your artwork will now be the identity of The Hive Community Garden.
Thankyou:)

 

Mikayla was totally stoked, proud and happy!!!
Love community. Merry Christmas :)

Friday 20 December 2013

Get the Garden Started Day

TUESDAY 7th January 2014 10am - 3pm
Come along to this significant little event and share in the beginning of The Hive Community Garden.
Some planting, making, painting and creating a beautiful space for all.....
ITS BEGGINING!!!!
Bring a plate of food to share..

Tuesday 10 December 2013

Wildfoods Workshop

On the superb Saturday morning of the 7th of December, a few crew from The Hive Community Garden with other members of the community, met on the Evans Head foreshore for a foraging workshop presented by Peter Hardwick.
Along the river, on the beach and through the streets we foraged, discovered and munched on edible weeds, bushfoods, seaweeds and edible ornamentals.
An incredibly enjoyable and informative walk with Peter, who has been foraging for wildfoods for over 40 years. Peter`s knowledge, enthusiasm and passion for wildfoods was quite contagious and I`m sure we will spot a few locals in the not to distant future nibbling on some sea rocket on their morning walk.
Thankyou Peter for coming to Evans and talking the walk and walking the talk and sharing this incredibly valuable knowledge.
Fun it was:)




 

 
 









Friday 6 December 2013

Logo Design Competition

Why not get creative and put your thinking caps on?  It could land you $100 which would be a great help at this time of the year.  All entries to be in to the Mid Richmond Neighbourhood Centre by 5pm 20th December 2013.  You know the name, so like busy little bees, get to designing a beautiful logo for 'THE HIVE' -  say no more!

Monday 2 December 2013

Casino Community Garden Visit

On Saturday 30th November a couple of car loads of The Hive Community Garden crew put on their gumboots, embraced the beautiful rain and headed up to Casino community Garden for their Welcome to Summer event (with not much sun).
Informative talks on 'no dig' gardening, preserving the harvest and solar energy combined with an incredible array of beautiful home-made food PLUS warm pizzas being churned out of the community cob oven, made
for a truly wonderful community gathering.
A huge thank you to Casino Community Garden crew for making us feel very welcome. We all left feeling very warm, happy and inspired.
This little event put on by Casino Community Garden provided a great opportunity to meet our community garden neighbours and we look forward to many more times where we come together to grow food and friends.
Thanks Casino
Clayton.

Tuesday 19 November 2013

Meeting 19th November 2013 5:30pm

We had another great meeting for The Hive Community Garden with another good roll-up.  Clayton had some positive feedback with Richmond Valley Council and we are all eager to hear approval from Council of the concept plans.  Not much longer, maybe end of November, we will get the go-ahead.
Catherine O'Halloran, Community Development Worker at Mid Richmond Neighbourhood Centre visited and signed us up as volunteers of the MRNC.  Great job Catherine explaining the necessity of community garden members becoming members of the MRNC.
The photos are from our naming day - a glorious, happy, fun-filled day:





Monday 11 November 2013

The Hive: Concept Plans of The Hive Community Garden

The Hive: Concept Plans of The Hive Community Garden: We have submitted our concept plans for The Hive Community Garden to Richmond Valley Council and hope to hear back from Council at the end of November, 2013.  See plans in Official Stuff.

Wednesday 6 November 2013

A native bee visited the writer at home on the morning of the naming day. Synchronicity when our community garden was officially named 'The Hive'

An excerpt from Animal Spirit Guides by Steven D Farmer PhD:

'If BEE shows up, it means:
It's time to get organized and get to work on that idea that you want to implement and develop.
Approach your projects with commitment, diligence and dedication and you'll succeed beyond your wildest expectations.
Involve several others in a co-operative and life-affirming venture, one in which everyone who participates will benefit - and if possible, one that includes the entire community.
Take the time to appreciate and enjoy the sweetness of life.
This is a very fertile time for you physically and creatively, one where you can bring your ideas into fruition.
This is a very productive cycle for you, so stay with whatever you're working on and there will be a favourable outcome.'

Tuesday 5 November 2013

Garden Naming Day

On Sunday last, 27 October, 2013 the Mid Richmond Community Garden was officially named 'The Hive'.   All present enjoyed the sunshine, great food and camaraderie and were excited at the selection of the community garden's name.  A 'hive' is as most know, an artificial home for bees or a scene of busy activity.  It is a lovely, suitable name for what will definitely become 'a scene of busy activity' in the not too distant future. We enjoyed a delightful array of food, with delicious local egg and salad rolls and fresh home-made lemonade served by Clayton our happy Garden Co-Ordinator.  Thank you Clayton and all who came along and bought a plate to share on the day.  We also enjoyed contributing our creativity to a canvas - a great idea of Willow's, which will be a great reminder of our 'naming day'.  Our tie-dyed flags, which were lovingly made at the local Saturday market, were hung with much joy between the two pine trees at the front of the garden in Mangrove Street, Evans Head.  They look like prayer flags strung between the trees and we hope they bring many blessings to the community garden.

The Hive - A Mid Richmond Community Garden - The Journey so far....

 
 
The first Mid Richmond community garden meeting was held on Sunday August 18th, 2013. Twenty two community members attended.
 
The first community garden design meeting was held on Tuesday 27th August, 2013.
 
The Community garden design team have been meeting weekly since late August and 9 meetings have been held.
 
 
From these design meetings, the community garden design group have developed a shared vision for the site, undertaken a site assessment/analysis, worked with site restrictions and together have designed the landscape concept plan for the Mid Richmond community gardens.
 
In addition to these meetings, one field trip has been held to the Mullumbimby living earth festival and three community garden information stalls have been held at local markets.

Even at this projects initial stage, this community garden has already provided a meeting place, bringing together diverse aspects of the Mid Richmond community.
 
We are already cultivating the community…..and not a seed has been sown.
 
 Submission for development - including the landscape concept plan, was handed in to Richmond Valley Council on Monday 28 October, 2013.  Now we await.