ByKit
Transition Bondi has two beekeepers on our team: Lance and Gloria. We met in passing in our Community Garden last week (where we have hives of both European and native bees), and an interesting story was told… Last week in the city, a swarm had been spotted, and Gloria received a call for help, to…
ByKit
Spring and end of lockdown are bringing us together again. And the gardens, verges and laneways and welcoming Transition Bondi’s volunteers. Seedlings raised on windowsills, balconies and our hot-house are now putting down their roots in the garden beds. At our recent October working bee we harvested celery, lettuce and silverbeet – such vigorous and…
ByLouise
Well it has been about a month that I have been volunteering with Transition Bondi in the Community Garden, and in that time I feel like I have already grown and blossomed from the experience of working with Kit and learning some gardening basics. It seems my family and friends also think so, evidenced by…
ByAnna
Spring has sprung and flowers, fruit and veggies are sprouting everywhere. So, strike while the iron is hot and have a crack at planting. The list below is just an example, but a great place to start, depending on your garden size, of course. As you well know, gardening has multiple physical and meditative benefits…
ByDaniel
Most of us think of a garden as a space with clear boundaries, an enclosure, a patch that belongs to someone. The concept of garden and gardening is changing however, especially in city living where most people have only limited space, if any, and community gardens are few and far between. Some niche gardening books or…
ByDaniel
At the house I came to occupy I noticed its fruit trees were in poor shape. The avocado tree, being a fairly tall tree seemed scraggy with barely any leaves on its branches. The dwarf orange tree resembled a mere green shrub. A good portion of its stump was attacked by borers and it looked…
ByKit
Winter is a slow month in the garden; and our garden is overshadowed by a building – even more so in these cold months. However, I noticed recently – on a sunny day – that there’s a niche in the garden that gets a good dose of sun as the rays travel along a side…
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…
