ByKit
After a morning in our community garden recently, mid-week, I was proudly carrying home some harvest in my basket – carrots, spinach and herbs. In the short distance from the garden to my home there’s a small business located in a side street, that makes cosmetics – from natural products, as it turns out. On…
You don’t need to speak German to listen to Lance Lieber being interviewed by Urania Berlin. The history of Urania Berlin is as long and complicated as the history of the city it was founded in. The founders of Urania Berlin were 19th century astronomers, thus the name Urania. It is a not-for-profit organisation supported…
ByDaniel
The secret garden on Bondi Road has been in operation since 2010 by Transition Bondi members and volunteers. A vacant land in the rear of a block of flats was lent to us (Land share arrangement) to be designed as a community garden as a generous gesture by its owner. Lance Lieber, the founder of…
ByKit
By Kit Shepherd When you travel to the beach along Bondi Road, there’s a little shopping precinct just before the bus dips down and the ocean view engulfs your eyes. This little ‘outpost’ of urbanity is studded with jewels! There are eateries, organic food shops, bars, places where you can find funky clothing, a tattooist, a physio, a…
By Kit Shepherd and Mylene Turban 25th of January 2021 Five thirty is not the usual time to be in the garden, but for us, it was a special opportunity to do some desk work, in the surrounds of our community garden on our Landshare plot in Bondi Rd. Four of us – one a…
ByKit
By Kit Shepherd 12th of December 2020 The laneways near my home in Bondi have been my highway to well-being in the time of COVID, lockdowns, and restrictions on social contacts. They kept me buoyant during the fires last year. And tending the laneways has been a form of vigil or prayer to Earth amidst the…
First of all thank you to our regular veg scrap donors for your patience during covid-19 and the temporary closure of the compost bins. As restrictions are easing, we are opening the Community Composting System again. It’s wonderful that so many people are involved in this system and dedicated to converting their scraps into soil instead of…
To all our Community Gardeners and Composters, as Covid-19 ensues, we have made the decision to close the garden. The garden is part of a land share arrangement and we need to consider our own health and that of the residents that live there. We all have a responsibility to help minimise the risk of…
What better way to spend the ‘quiet’ end of the year – especially this year of terrifying destructive bush fires in areas outside the cities – than tending lane way gardens. For more than three years I’ve been enjoying looking after several local lane way plots, and recently have harvested five giant sweet potatoes (each…
Tuesday was hazy, hot dry and scary, Wild fires across the state, I felt helpless, just to wait. With the sun coming down, we wandered through cooper park and found, A little slice of tranquility, in all this instability, Cooper park community garden is buzzing with bees And a floral display of stunning sweet peas,…
