Lismore Community Garden in Lismore, New South Wales | Community garden

Lismore Community Garden

Locality: Lismore, New South Wales

Address: Magellan St 2480 Lismore, NSW, Australia

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

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25.01.2022 An earlier version of this post was originally made last year. For the benefit of new members, and everyone else, I'm posting it here again. The purpose and ben...efits of Really Really Free Markets extend to a few different areas, and some of these are worth outlining briefly: > Providing a working example of a moneyless gift economy that can be replicated elsewhere. > Demonstrating a viable small-scale alternative to capitalism as a means of distributing resources. > Supplying useful resources for people who live a moneyless lifestyle, or who are working in this direction. >Providing a social environment where people can hang out, catch up, and hopefully listen to some live music. > Operating in a non-bureaucratised way, i.e. no stall bookings are needed, no proof of income is required, there is no limit attached to the number of items taken, and no barter arrangement is needed. >At a time when Australia is in an economic recession, mutual aid initiatives such as Free Markets are increasingly important for relieving household budgets. > In some regions, welfare payments such as Newstart are having strings attached in the form of cashless welfare cards. The 80% of income that is quarantined on the card is not eligible for spending at op shops, placing a lot of pressure on the remaining non-quarantined 20%, and making it harder to buy secondhand. Free Markets can provide a solution, enabling people in these circumstances to obtain items easily. >Offering an alternative to op shops, some of which are currently shut. In some cases items are arguably overpriced. >Curbing waste, by providing a venue for items to be given away that might not be put on sale in an op shop. Inevitably, a fair proportion of what is donated to op shops is thrown out due to the huge quantity of donations.

23.01.2022 Pig face in Community Garden's Bush Tucker area. SWAP/SHARE TABLE will be operating again this Saturday 5th. So please bring along your extra produce, seeds ...and other good things to share or swap. John Hildebrand also has male, female and kids bikes in small large and medium sizes and in mountain\, road and hybrid styles. Make an offer on the bike you want. Simply email me at [email protected] with your needs. We already have seeds, dahlia bulbs and comfrey (leaves and roots) available.

14.01.2022 COMMUNITY GARDEN OPEN FOR SATURDAY SWAPS From 10 to 12 at 54 Brewster Street (next to pre-school). Here’s your chance to swap produce seeds and drop off or pick...ing up cuttings and plants. Pop in near our enclosure and shed and there’ll be 2 tables to use This Saturday 8/8/20 so far we have strawberry runners, crucifix orchids, a bangalow palm, agarves and New Guinea bean seeds on offer.

04.01.2022 This Saturday we have a special offering John Hilderbrand has been reconditioning push bikes for years and is happy to bring some to Saturday 29th August swap t...able at Lismore Community Garden. Please let me know if you want a small, medium, or large bike and whether its a mountain road Hybrid, and whether it's a men's or women's bike. You can make an offer to join on the day. You can contact me on [email protected]. Our usual offerings of seeds, lemons chokoes, comfrey and any other extra produce will be there from 10 to 12. See more

03.01.2022 This group meets on the third Saturday of each month. All welcome.