Paradise Street Community Garden in Highgate Hill | Sport & recreation

Paradise Street Community Garden

Locality: Highgate Hill

Address: 29 Paradise Street 4101 Highgate Hill, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.spiral.org.au/

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10.02.2022 Super simple step-by-step instructions for our Cob Oven!

02.02.2022 The annual Caper white butterfly migration has started. The thornless caper plants at the Jane St community garden and Paradise St community garden are already ...covered in hundreds of butterfly eggs. I've included a photo of some eggs, a butterfly and the flower of the thornless caper tree. See more

24.01.2022 Everyone needs a green change :)

24.01.2022 Our Zig Zag vine (Melodorum leichhardtii) has produced a bumper harvest of fruit in the community garden this year. The fruit is tasty and tangy. The plant is a host for the Pale Triangle, Eastern Dusk-flat and Four-barred Swordtail butterflies.

22.01.2022 Thank you to everyone who came and enjoyed the pizza cook up yesterday. Heres some pics from my phone. More to come from Jerome. Many thanks to Mammachair and Jenny Pineapple. Also to Jo, Steph Z. Valeria and Lachlan for keeping the pizza oven pumping all day and of course to the gardens crew Meg, Barry, Briony and Kerry.

22.01.2022 Eating fresh local sustainable isnt more expensive

21.01.2022 Cob oven building fun..thanks to all who gave their time and special thanks to Steph Z who planned and coordinated the process. with Kumari Prez, Am-in Sa-idi, Michelle Kirby-Brown, Judy Abernethy, Brisbane Permablitz, Ben Grubb, Matt, Jamie, Valerie Juana, Briony, Meg, Barry, Kerry, Ruby Von Drews

21.01.2022 The Caper White butterfly migration has begun! Some soon to be butterflies feasting on our Caper tree.... Happy Friday all https://www.facebook.com/pg/Paradise-Street-Butterfly-Garden-1034516246598060/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1034527086596976

21.01.2022 Salt Bush is a delicious bush food, useful when it’s dried and chopped finely to season roast vegetables. There is a bucket of freshly cut leaves here at the garden for anyone interested

20.01.2022 Dome building today in the cob oven folks. Come and lend a hand. We could do with a few more people today.

20.01.2022 Cob oven building workshops continue this weekend and next. all welcome

17.01.2022 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvBr-qPAGwI#t=57 Green swag!

17.01.2022 Welcoming Spring by planting rainbow corn! Were at the garden on Tuesday and Friday mornings, and volunteers are always welcome

17.01.2022 There was a big party in the park last night, and unfortunately there is broken glass and rubbish all over the ground, and vomit on the pizza oven table. This is a much loved community space that is used by families, so it’s disappointing to see it disrespected in this way.

17.01.2022 BOIC Butterfly Gardeners Picnic and Garden Tour When: Sunday 13th September 11am to 2pm What: Frank Jordan, co-author of Create More Butterflies, will take a tour of the garden to highlight butterfly host plants. ... These include Corky Milk Vine, Thornless Caper and Saltbush. Sharing of plant information and socialising will follow. Where: Paradise St Community Garden, Lyons Park, Highgate Hill Q 4101 Bring: BYO usual picnic stuff essentials like food, hats, etc. There is a large undercover picnic table, a small playground and a toilet. Spare chairs may be useful if a lot of people turn up. Members and guests are welcome. No need to RSVP but make sure you sign the attendance book.

17.01.2022 Awesome resource for all those sustainable green thumbs out there.

16.01.2022 Oh, honeybees. So important. And yet totally disappearing an a terrifying pace. We gotta save these bees if we like 1/3 of the food we eat! After all, thats, like ... a lot of food. Thanks for the image, Sunwarrior!

16.01.2022 Have a great weekend gardeners.

16.01.2022 Next stages of the new cob oven. Another fun day in the garden. all welcome.

15.01.2022 SPIRAL: The End of an Era...and our new Space!

14.01.2022 Gardens Crew and Council have noticed the planting of new trees in positions which are contrary to careful planning of the space. People involved in the planting need to get in touch with Meg (on 0488 755 474) - they will need to be taken out and re-planted.

13.01.2022 Hi everyone, Just letting you know, work has started on test drilling the Common where Council is planning to place large shipping containers for mains-powered ...batteries that will charge Metro buses. A public meeting's being held on Thursday 7 October from 4.30pm at the former soccer club and former men's shed on T J Doyle Memorial Drive to discuss saving the parkland and trees. Worth noting - UQ has declined to have the containers placed on their 114ha site. Instead, it's proposed that we lose part of the Dutton Park Common. The batteries will be charged off mains power and a transmission line will run under the bridge to recharge the buses at the UQ bus station. For those who think it's worth giving up the park to get Metro - Metro buses won't be stopping at the Dutton Park bus station at the end of the bridge, so we'll be losing parkland and a city busway service (we currently have the excellent 66 bus but will be losing that service). Hope you can attend!

13.01.2022 There is a beautiful carpet snake calling our garden home at the moment. If you do come across it please keep your distance and leave it in peace

10.01.2022 Please share. FREE service for humans & dogs.

09.01.2022 Yes you still have a chance to get your hands dirty more cob oven building tomorrow. Come and join us for the final render. Bring some lunch. Well supply the tea and coffee. bring your hats, water bottles, sunscreen, decent shoes at Paradise St Paradise Street Community Garden

09.01.2022 See the butterflies breeding on our thornless caper tree.

09.01.2022 Welcoming Spring by planting rainbow corn! We’re at the garden on Tuesday and Friday mornings, and volunteers are always welcome

07.01.2022 Just around the corner at Laura Street - THIS SUNDAY Get amongst all the action and support our community :)

06.01.2022 Heres a great casual job with a lovely social enterprise.

05.01.2022 Super simple step-by-step instructions for our Cob Oven!

05.01.2022 ON TODAY!! You are invited to the community wake for our fierce poet Meg on Friday 9th June at 2pm. The entertainment and ceremony starts at 3pm, followed by an open mike for more stories and songs. Pizzas provided from the Cob Oven. BYO drinks, extra munchies and chairs/picnic blanket. Meg was the key driver for paradise st community gardens for many years and did much of the early work establishing both Jane St and Paradise St community gardens with SPIRAL Community Hub. joining us from 2003. She was such a wonderful friend, confidant and generous support person for so many people in our community.

05.01.2022 Today 3.45 pm in #LyonsPark in Paradise Street Highgate Hill. Andrea Kirwin and Nyssa Ray are bringing their children’s show Love Everybody to this year’s Street Serenades. https://westender.com.au//street-serenades-lyons-park-par/

05.01.2022 Co-author of Create More Butterflies and current president of the Butterfly and Other Invertebrates Club, Frank Jordan invites you to a butterfly tour especially created for West End Festival. Frank will highlight over forty butterfly host plants established in the garden. From this workshop, youll learn how to start your own butterfly garden at home. Many of the plants can be seen in the photo albums. Paradise Street Butterfly Garden https://www.facebook.com/events/1159760370754575/

04.01.2022 The Blue Tiger butterfly migration has begun. We found this caterpillar and a chrysalis on one of the plants we have growing here especially for them.

04.01.2022 GiAnt BuBBLes !!!! Yayyyy !!!!! Remember them from the last fundraiser???... Lets see how long we can keep them UP in the air !!!

03.01.2022 We drew a marvellous crowd on Saturday for the launching of the new cob oven! While Garden Guardians Meg and Briony worked the crowd, oven designer Steph Z performed a remarkable series of pizza-creating miracles with his team of foodies working the line. Mouths thus occupied, our ears were free to take in the grooves of local bands Mamachair and Jenny Pineapple, while trying to resist the charms of pizza-loving Lily the Labrador. How grateful we are to have an engaged and welcoming community to make moments like this possible. And the oven is now available for anyone and everyone! Thanks to all for an amazing day. Now, heres some photos.

03.01.2022 Hi everyone, the fabulous Meg Kanowski who has tended the paradise st community garden for the last ten years is looking for a house. They need to be out of the...ir current house by May 5th. If anyone knows of an affordable place with 3 beds in the west end area could you let me know please!!! Please spread the word too. See more

02.01.2022 Jerusalem Artichokes anyone? Can be divided up for replanting or straight to the kitchen. We’ve got some extras to give away. We’ll be at the Garden on Tuesday and Friday!

02.01.2022 Jerusalem Artichokes anyone? Can be divided up for replanting or straight to the kitchen. Weve got some extras to give away. Well be at the Garden on Tuesday and Friday!

01.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/events/1304053749628158/

01.01.2022 West End Magazine has just published an article on Paradise Street Community Garden, here is the online version (I believe the article should be in the print edition as well). http://www.westendmagazine.com/community-gardens-west-end/

23.12.2021 Thanks to everyone who came along to learn about creating butterfly habitat yesterday. Almost every butterfly species we have in the garden paid us a visit! In case you missed it, we are down at the garden on Tuesday and Friday mornings and always happy to chat. Also, some great further reading:... Create More Butterflies by Frank Jordan and Helen Schwencke Butterfly Host Plants of Southeast Queensland and Northern New South Wales by John T Moss.

03.12.2021 There is a beautiful carpet snake calling our garden home at the moment. If you do come across it please keep your distance and leave it in peace