Our Mission Statement

To be a vibrant social hub for our local community and beyond, celebrating generational, cultural and environmental diversity, promoting and inspiring sustainable living practices for well-being.

Monday, March 30, 2009

Upcoming Monthly Gathering

When: Sunday 5th April, 3pm onwards for early Tea
Where: Beks' House - 36 Wattle, Ave Bongaree
What: Bring along a plate of local seasonal food to share (if possible), refreshment, plate, cutlery and a rug/spare chair. Come armed with a sustainable question or advice to offer... do you have seeds/seedlings/produce to swap or share?
Bring along a smile .... and your diary, so we can look at days for those community garden visits

All Welcome, Child friendly

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Bribie Climate Change Adaptation Alliance

BEC House members attended a Climate Change information session last year, this has led onto creating an Alliance of community groups on Bribie to look at Bribie's future.
Thanks to Colleen Finn who attended the Climate Change workshop on Monday 24th March on our behalf and has given us this feedback from it: -

In a nutshell: this meeting of the Bribie Climate Change Adaptation Alliance, sought to clarify and condense the concerns that were raised at the public meeting of the 19th November 2008.

This large list of concerns( almost 70 items) has now been divided into subsections, they are as follows:
Disaster Plan,
Vegetation,
Water,
Wildlife,
Transport,
Shoreline Erosion,
Infrastructure and Planning,
Soil.

The group will look at ways to best address these issues for achievable, practical, measurable and positive outcomes. Goals are to be short term- up to 1 year, mid term 2-5 yrs and long term and will include mapping, monitoring and evaluation of the above sub sections.

Ways to best involve and educate the community and particularly to engage younger people also need to be addressed.

BEC House will hopefully be involved in this process as they are issues that concern all of us.

Friday, March 20, 2009

NEW Local Council Community Gardens Info Site

We have been in touch with Candice Lloyd from Queensland Health, who's working with MBR Council with regard to this new initiative - please take a look at their site
www.mbcommunitygardens.com.au
(also at top of list in weblinks), it is going to be a great resource for the whole community and a guide also for starting up.
Candice is keen to meet with us to discuss our aims for the future with BEC house on Bribie and how we'd like to be represented on their website...

We've arranged a meeting at Beks Thompson's place - 36 Wattle Ave for next Friday 27th March at 10am. It would be fantastic to see some of you there too and be involved, if you can make it.
Please give me a call or email me if you are able to come - see you there, with morning tea?!

Also Mandy Allen And Colleen Finn from BEC House are representing us at a regional Climate Change workshop for interested community groups on Bribie on Tues. 24th - watch this space for outcomes.
Thanks Guys.

Monday, March 2, 2009

Veggie Village - Peregian Beach

I encourage you all to take the time to look at this community garden website - (on our links area - bottom right). It looks very well organised and as it's also coastal it'd be interesting to check out. They also have some good info on web communication in groups (to follow!)
They are having an official opening this Sat - March 7th from 8.30am.
I'm interested in going - is anyone else available and want to car pool or follow up? I think it will be very worthwhile as it's a fairly new, but already successful project. Even if you can't make it up this w/end, we could organise it as a group trip at our next gathering.
Let me know..
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Feb/March Gatherings News

Great to see everyone at our last couple of gatherings.
  • We've already mentioned in the last post about deciding to re-look at the Art's Centre as a possible meeting ground/useage area for workshops and a garden/premises, there seems to be a new committee underway - We won't know unless we try!....
  • We discussed Working/Busy bees in our own back yards and are all keen to do that as needs be - the weather is just getting to action time again. So anyone needing a few extra hands, just let us know and we'll all help out.
  • When we all have some seedlings, etc, underway, we are happy to swap and share at future gatherings, get a bit of a barter system going.
  • We discussed the idea of Tool Share - are you happy to lend out a tool? Do we all need one of everything?? Let us know what you think on that one...
  • Julie is now going to be selling Green Harvest seeds at the Mercy Shop, instead of Eden seeds. They promise a 99% germination rate and are sourced from maleny.
  • The veg box scheme has stopped, in favour of buying Organics direct from Wright's Fruit Barn, so please support Jackie at Wrights (next to the Orange Bribie hardware store) as she's doing it all just for us and keeping prices down.
  • We are all interested in future workshops and are looking at possibilities - let us know what your interests are and what you'd like to attend..
  • We are going to approach Peter Kearney from City Food Growers about a visit to the Samford garden for some time soon - watch this space..

Community Garden - council feedback

We have had some communication with our new council, who are in the process of putting in place a general policy with regard to the 'handling' of Community Gardens - as they say they have had interest in this issue from many areas. We are waiting for feedback from this, however we may be looking at putting in a proposal for the land use as a community garden to speed this process up, in the future, depending on member interest for use of this particular site.
Another area we are looking at is use of the Community Arts Centre in some form or other, being already a great community venue, but which appears to be currrently underused. We are arranging a meeting with them to discuss any possibilities.