Food & Farming Groups
The Green Shed
The Green Shed is located at the Showground, Main Western Rd, Mt Tamborine and is the local market for fresh, mostly organic fruit and vegies. It is open every week on Sunday mornings between 7am and noon. It also sells flowers, honey, nuts, herbs and plants.
Tamborine Mountain Local Producers Association
The Tamborine Mountain Local Producers Association coordinates the Green Shed as a not for profit community enterprise. Its aim is to showcase and provide the local farmers of Tamborine Mountain with an opportunity to sustainably grow and sell healthy, nutritious food.
Slow Food Tamborine Mountain
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Slow food represents everything that fast food does not:
- Fresh, local, seasonal produce
- Recipes handed down through generations
- Sustainable farming practices (including organics)
- Small scale artisan food production
- Relaxed leisurely dining in the company of family and friends
Contact Ian McDonald; Phone: (07) 5545 4086; Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Lindsay Orr; Phone: (07) 5545 2549; Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
B-Fresh Beechmont
B-Fresh, a project of the Beechmont Business & Enterprise Network (BBEN), focuses on organising events and promoting seasonal, local/regional food for the Beechmont community. It coordinates Beechmont’s weekly Food Connect deliver for local households and is organising the Zest Fest (connect to article) for June 26 2010. Contact Wendi Trulson; Phone: (07) 5533 3835; Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Food Connect
Food Connect supplies local, sustainably produced food to communities in Brisbane, the Gold Coast and Beechmont. It is creating a new, more equitable way of distributing local produce in a socially responsible way. Its delicious, seasonal produce comes from local farmers living within a 5-hour radius of Brisbane who are paid a fair price for their work and are encouraged to farm using the most sustainable methods possible. Food Connect subscribers know where their food comes from and that their subscriptions are helping to create a sustainable, regional food economy in South East Qld. The Beechmont community has created a weekly Food Connect delivery service. The Tamborine Mountain Local Producers Association supplies Food Connect with local fresh produce grown on the mountain.
Food & Farming Initiatives
Scenic Rim Agritourism Project
Scenic Rim Regional Council in partnership with Southern Cross University, is running a food and agritourism project aimed at helping farmers and landholders looking to diversity into or connect with the tourism industry. The project is supporting the development of new food, agri and nature-based tourism experiences and products in the Scenic Rim and aims to raise the appeal of the region as a tourism destination. It is focused on supporting the development of the regional economy through agriculture, food distribution, food value adding and growers markets.
Tamborine Mountain Community Garden:
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The Tamborine Local Producer’s Association (sponsors of the Green Shed) and Kerri Guy, owner of Bungunyah Manor are developing a community garden for Tamborine Mountain residents. The garden is located on the six acres behind Bungunyah Manor and is beginning to take shape. The first plots have been allocated and Stage 2 is underway.
All the expertise that has gone into making the quality of produce sold at the Green Shed so good will be available to members of the Community Garden project. Founders Geoff and Bev Buckley will be teaching and demonstrating bio-nutrient techniques that allow gardeners to grow bug and disease free, nutritious food without using chemical poisons. Irrigation and fertigation systems are now being installed. Fertilizers, compost, seeds and seedlings will be available to plot holders who will have the option of eating what they grow or selling some of their produce through the Green Shed.
Here’s how you can help create the Community Garden:
- Leave grass cuttings and leaves as well as cardboard or newspaper in the trailer in the left corner of the Bungunya Manor carpark – for soil improvement activities
- Muscle power – bring your own pick, fork, shovel or wheel barrow to help prepare garden beds and plots
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