Brooklyn Street Festival

'GrowMore', Brooklyn's TT food and gardening group are holding a fundraising stall at the Brooklyn Street Festival.  Available for sale are herb and vege seedlings, fresh herbs, worm wine and Eco Seeds.  There will be a raffle with the fabulous first prize of a one hour consultation with a landscape designer, second prize is a lunch voucher for the sumptuous Nikau cafe/restaurant and third prize is a composting system.  So get on down to Brooklyn on Sunday the 28th November from 9.30 - 2.30, have fun get informed and support your local TT!

Brooklyn TT Food Group Steering Group Meeting

The article below appeared in the Dominion Post 20 June 09

Learning to share
Hannah Zwartz

These gardeners are cultivating more than just crops.

Four keen Brooklyn gardeners are growing more than just food in their shared plot. The group comes together to grow vegetables in the garden of a community-minded 85-year-old who, for privacy reasons, we'll call Mrs G.

Join Transition Town Brooklyn for a hands-on fruit tree pruning workshop
Ammara Home stay Te Horo – organic pear orchard.

$30 cost ($5 morning tea included in the cost).

Pruning in pairs, each pair will need gumboots; secateurs x2, loppers x1 and pruning saw x1. Tools must be clean and sharp.
To register and for more details contact Earthmother@slingshot.co.nz.