Vera Street Community Garden

Welcome to the Vera Street Community Garden website!

Welcome to the Vera Street Community Garden website! 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.

To find out more, read the About Us section of this site, or contact using the form on the Contact Us page.

Q150 Bush Dance WHAT A GREAT EVENING!

Thanks everyone for making the Bush Dance to celebrate Queensland's 150th Anniversary such a fantastic night!
The bush dance went off well with over a hunded people turnning up for a fantastic meal and some great dancing. The Band were excellent despite Maggie's sore throat, and they had everyone up and dancing as soon at the first song started. It was great to catch up with neighbours old and new, and gardeners past and present. Thanks for coming along and making it a great evening. You can find out more about Bushland Boogie through their website.
The band did complement us on the enthusiasm of the crowd and the superior dancing of the Toowong people...what can we say, we're good, and not just at gardening!

Helpers
There was barely any cleaning up to do on Sunday as everyone had kept the site so tidy and organised.There was a small army of helpers who put together the organisation, set up, cooking, staffing, and cleaning up which made the event run so smoothly. Thank you everyone, you all know who you are!

Thanks to our supporters
Many thanks for the Hon Andrew Fraser MP for Mt Cooth-tha, the Hon Scott Emerson MP for Indooroopilly, and Cr Peter Matic, Councillor for Toowong Ward for printing flyers for the event.
Local businesses who supported the event were Baker's Delight Toowong and Coles Toowong, many thanks to them also.

New banner for the Community Garden

Members of the Vera Street Community Garden recently helped celebrate Queensland's 150th anniversary by taking part in the Big City Draw, a program where community groups create a banner to be displayed in the CBD during the Q150 festivities. Our design included our distinctive seed logo, and a Chinese gardener to recognise that Chinese market gardens once grew near the current garden.
We will be able to use the banner for future events, and will look great for our own upcoming Q150 celebration, which will feature a bush dance and bush tucker garden.
Thanks to Jane, Ruth, Quinn, Adam and everyone else who helped create the vibrant banner.

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Where are we?

Access the garden from the gate next to 21 Vera Street. Walk along the grass and turn left to see the garden.

Q150 Celebrations

For more information about Queensland's 150th Anniversary celebrations across the state see the Q150 website.

Step-by-step guide to weed tea

It's important not to put invasive weeds straight into the compost bins, as their seeds and roots don't break down. Instead, we need to make 'weed tea', a kind of liquid fertilizer. Ruth brings us a step-by-step guide.

Gardening meeting times

Fourth Sunday of every month from 3:00pm: Working bee. This is a time where there will be lots of people and things happening. A great time for visitors, friends and new members to come and join in.
October: Sunday 25th from 3-5pm
Every Friday from 3:30pm: Family gardening time from 3:30pm.
Every Sunday from 3:00pm: General gardening for members.

We have lots of events on and coming up: Check them out!

Celebrate Q150 with a bush dance and bush tucker garden on Saturday 10th October 2009. Get involved with the planning, it's going to be lots of fun!
For more details, go to our Events page