Our Sunday Organic Markets just keeps growing! Stop by on Sunday morning and enjoy our new food stalls, new art activities for the kids (plus space to play), and of course, breakfast at our Chai Cafe.

We will also be hosting a series of activities as part of Brisbane’s Active Parks program, from family yoga and planting to Bollywood workouts and African dance.  Come along and try something new this weekend!

The Northey Street Organic Markets run every Sunday morning from 6-10:30am, so come early to ensure the widest variety and best choice of certified organic food!

To honour our first three life members, resident City Farm artist Bob McMahon engraved their likenesses upon the local mango tree.

Congratulations to Dick Copeman, Richard Nielsen and John Morahan for this much-deserved recognition.

Pictured below are Dick and Richard, along with our guest, Cr. David Hinchliffe and artist Bob McMahon.

We’re delighted to announce construction of the new education building is now complete.  Here are some photos of the final stages:
Stay tuned to nscf.org.au for upcoming launch details!

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City Farm seeks to build a durable, robust and iconic community building to meet its education needs and to embody the Organisation’s Permaculture-based philosophy and spirit.

Designed as a public showcase of smart, best-practice sustainable design, it is set to become one of the greenest small public buildings in Australia, and will set a precedent in terms of innovative sustainable design in subtropical Brisbane.

This includes cutting edge features such as the ‘meadow roof’, which uses the latest green technologies to deliver a thin-section, intensively planted cover.  We believ

e that this is the first time this technology has been employed in Queensland.

Other examples are the passive solar design, the use of timbers sourced from certifiable sustainable forests, or alternatively, recycled timbers, utilising straw as a durable building component and introducing earth render as a low embodied energy thermal mass element.

Construction commenced in early 2010.

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