An eventful year for Jane Street Community Garden!

New coordinator for Jane Street Community Garden, Tom Carroll, updates us on the year that was, and on coming events.

It was time to say a sad farewell to Melissa Smrecnik. For several years, Melissa was the coordinator and backbone of Jane Street Community Garden, pushing to turn this small guerrilla garden plot into a recognised and official community garden.

Thomas Carroll, a recently-returned Brisbane-ite, landscape architect and garden enthusiast, took up the coordinator role recently.

After managing to narrowly evade the floods, we were unfortunate enough to lose our shed and its contents to a fire in April.

The good news was all to come however, with a long-awaited approval to renovate the gardens, install twelve new raised garden beds and an amazing new greenhouse. The private plots are now rented out to local community members and businesses.

A lot of hard work has been invested by the amazing volunteers and garden members who help make the garden possible. We have a great crew dedicated participants who create a welcoming and unique garden space for everyone to enjoy.

For 2023, we hope to keep the momentum rolling, with a new and improved composting hub, production of seedlings, workshops and additional working bees.