About us
We are Vera Street Community Garden Inc, a grass-roots, get-your-hands-dirty group of local and not-so-local residents who come together to do organic gardening and creek rehabilitation within the grounds of Toowong College, off Vera Street in West Toowong.
We formed in 2005 and have since incorporated and registered as a Community Land Resource Management group with the state department of Natural Resources, Water and Mines. Our aims are to help people of all skill levels come together to establish and maintain organic vegetable garden beds, for shared consumption. Further to this we hope to 'grow community' as well, and welcome people who want to make new connections with others.
We have a green vision and hope to be a model for sustainable water use, and to give something back to the land in the work we do helping to rehabilitate Toowong Creek, adjacent to our garden site. There are also opportunities to help make artwork for the garden (a mosaic garden sign is under construction), get involved in funding applications and other activities associated with running the group.
We have people of many nationalities within our group, and we aim to welcome every person who wants to improve or share their gardening skills.
More information
History of the garden
Our formal aims
How to join
Change to Membership Structure
At our November meeting, we decided to change our membership fees and due date for memberships, to make it easier on both newly joinging members and our administration. Membership is open to everyone.
Membership fees are now $12 per year, ($6 concession).
Memberships are due on the first day of our new financial year, each April 1st, prior to our May AGM, but you can pay a pro-rata rate if you join at another point, of $1 per month ($0.50 per month concession) until the next April.
Blue Card Working with Children check
A Blue Card ('Working with Children' Check) is needed to work on the garden site because it is within the grounds of a school. We can help you through the Blue Card application process if you do not already hold one. Blue Cards are free for people doing voluntary work and can take a few weeks to process.
Coming to the Garden
If you would like to join, come along to one of our working bees on the fourth Sunday of every month. If you like, you can get gardening faster by filling out the membership and Blue Card forms before you come. You can download these forms from the links on the right of this page.
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Blue Card Form (link)
