Northey Street City Farm https://www.nscf.org.au/ Permaculture in the Heart of Brisbane, Australia Mon, 24 Nov 2025 02:17:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://www.nscf.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/cropped-image-4-150x150.jpeg Northey Street City Farm https://www.nscf.org.au/ 32 32 Spring Harvest Long Table Lunch Fundraiser 2025 https://www.nscf.org.au/spring-harvest-long-table-lunch-2025/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=spring-harvest-long-table-lunch-2025 https://www.nscf.org.au/spring-harvest-long-table-lunch-2025/#respond Tue, 02 Sep 2025 07:27:44 +0000 https://www.nscf.org.au/?p=41108 Spring Harvest Long Table Lunch Fundraiser 2025 Join us for our Spring Harvest Long Table Lunch fundraiser on Saturday, 25 October 2025, starting at 1 p.m.  We invite our guests to reconnect with community, food, and the land that sustains us. The Spring Harvest Long Table Lunch is a fundraiser […]

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]]> https://www.nscf.org.au/spring-harvest-long-table-lunch-2025/feed/ 0 JOB VACANCY: Market Coordinator https://www.nscf.org.au/job-vacancy-market-coordinator/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=job-vacancy-market-coordinator https://www.nscf.org.au/job-vacancy-market-coordinator/#respond Wed, 13 Aug 2025 02:37:19 +0000 https://www.nscf.org.au/?p=41010 JOB VACANCY: Market Coordinator POSITION DESCRIPTION Title: Market Coordinator Award: Northey Street City Farm (NSCF) Staff AgreementHours: 20 hours per week (including Sundays, with 4:00am starts fortnightly)Pay rate: NSCF Enterprise Agreement Level 3, $29.09 per hour, plus entitlements as defined in the NSCF Staff Agreement such as leave and superannuation […]

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]]> https://www.nscf.org.au/job-vacancy-market-coordinator/feed/ 0 How to Keep Warm in Winter https://www.nscf.org.au/how-to-keep-warm-in-winter/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-keep-warm-in-winter https://www.nscf.org.au/how-to-keep-warm-in-winter/#respond Wed, 02 Jul 2025 03:59:13 +0000 https://www.nscf.org.au/?p=40176 How to Keep Warm in Winter A renter-friendly permaculture guide to surviving winter in a freezing Australian home by Kate Fardell, Gavin Hardy, and Barb Ford It’s no secret that a lot of Australian homes aren’t well-designed for cool weather. When winter-hardened expats from Europe and North America are online […]

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]]> https://www.nscf.org.au/how-to-keep-warm-in-winter/feed/ 0 Winter Solstice Festival 2025 https://www.nscf.org.au/winter-solstice-festival-2025/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=winter-solstice-festival-2025 https://www.nscf.org.au/winter-solstice-festival-2025/#respond Fri, 23 May 2025 01:43:38 +0000 https://www.nscf.org.au/?p=39965 Winter Solstice Festival 2025 ✨🔥 The Winter Solstice Festival returns on Saturday, 28th June—a night of fire, community & connection under the stars! 🔥✨ This year’s theme, Seeds for the Future, celebrates the wisdom of the past whilst sowing the seeds for an abundant, regenerative future. Just as the Winter Solstice marks […]

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]]> https://www.nscf.org.au/winter-solstice-festival-2025/feed/ 0 Spring Harvest Long Table Dinner https://www.nscf.org.au/spring-harvest-long-table-dinner/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=spring-harvest-long-table-dinner https://www.nscf.org.au/spring-harvest-long-table-dinner/#respond Thu, 22 Aug 2024 00:40:01 +0000 https://www.nscf.org.au/?p=36094 Spring Harvest Long Table Dinner Join us for our Spring Harvest Long Table Dinner on Friday, October 11th, 2024.  This dinner is more than a meal – it’s a celebration of Northey Street City Farm’s 30-year journey. We invite our guests to reconnect with community, food, and the land that sustains us. The […]

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]]> https://www.nscf.org.au/spring-harvest-long-table-dinner/feed/ 0 Returning Artefacts to Traditional Custodians https://www.nscf.org.au/returning-artefacts-to-traditional-custodians/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=returning-artefacts-to-traditional-custodians https://www.nscf.org.au/returning-artefacts-to-traditional-custodians/#respond Thu, 08 Aug 2024 03:25:39 +0000 https://www.nscf.org.au/?p=35081 In late July, the Hurley family met with Derek Oram Sandy to return artifacts to the Traditional Custodians of the Brisbane region.

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]]> https://www.nscf.org.au/returning-artefacts-to-traditional-custodians/feed/ 0 Book Review: Nature Day and Night https://www.nscf.org.au/book-review-nature-day-and-night/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=book-review-nature-day-and-night https://www.nscf.org.au/book-review-nature-day-and-night/#respond Tue, 09 Jul 2024 03:58:15 +0000 https://www.nscf.org.au/?p=33627 ‘Nature Day And Night’ is informatively written by Richard Adams and beautifully illustrated by David Goddard.  I have enjoyed this book in my personal home library for over 40 years, but I would now like it to be enjoyed by more people. It describes scientifically developed insights and provides amazingly detailed […]

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]]> https://www.nscf.org.au/book-review-nature-day-and-night/feed/ 0 How to: Worm Composting https://www.nscf.org.au/how-to-worm-composting/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-worm-composting https://www.nscf.org.au/how-to-worm-composting/#respond Thu, 02 May 2024 01:52:53 +0000 https://www.nscf.org.au/?p=29161 Vermicomposting, aka worm composting, is easy to do at home! Here’s a great little run-down just in time for Compost Awareness Week. . . The worms farms we sell at our City Farm Nursery are the Tumbleweed Can-o-Worms. They come with the legs, tap, and worm bedding made of coco […]

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]]> https://www.nscf.org.au/how-to-worm-composting/feed/ 0 Winter Solstice Festival 2024 https://www.nscf.org.au/winter-solstice-festival-2024/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=winter-solstice-festival-2024 https://www.nscf.org.au/winter-solstice-festival-2024/#respond Thu, 11 Apr 2024 06:16:13 +0000 https://www.nscf.org.au/?p=26958 The Winter Solstice Festival is back for 2024! Join us for our annual Winter Solstice Festival, a celebration steeped in multicultural tradition as a time for renewal, reflection and reverence for the Earth’s natural cycles. This year marks the 30th anniversary of Northey Street City Farm, so we’ll be weaving […]

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]]> https://www.nscf.org.au/winter-solstice-festival-2024/feed/ 0 March E-News https://www.nscf.org.au/march-e-news-3/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=march-e-news-3 https://www.nscf.org.au/march-e-news-3/#respond Tue, 26 Mar 2024 23:54:36 +0000 https://www.nscf.org.au/?p=26419 March E-News – Read the full newsletter HERE. Northey Street City Farm publishes a free electronic newsletter every month. To subscribe to our monthly free e-newsletter, CLICK HERE. The newsletter will go to your inbox once a month to let you know what is happening at the farm. 

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]]> https://www.nscf.org.au/26415-2/feed/ 0 Food Forests – a global solution re-emerging from an ancient idea https://www.nscf.org.au/food-forests-by-gavin-hardy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=food-forests-by-gavin-hardy https://www.nscf.org.au/food-forests-by-gavin-hardy/#respond Thu, 21 Mar 2024 02:11:08 +0000 https://www.nscf.org.au/?p=26093 By Gavin Hardy In 2022, I was fortunate to travel overseas and visit some of the world’s leading community food forest and orchard projects to understand how they work and what we in Australia can learn from them. Food forests – assemblies of food producing trees, shrubs, ground-covers & vines […]

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]]> https://www.nscf.org.au/food-forests-by-gavin-hardy/feed/ 0 City Farm Fest https://www.nscf.org.au/city-farm-fest/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=city-farm-fest https://www.nscf.org.au/city-farm-fest/#respond Wed, 13 Mar 2024 02:12:57 +0000 https://www.nscf.org.au/?p=25780 City Farm Fest – Friday 1 December 2023, from 5:00pm Held on Jagera and Turrbal land. The spiritual successor to our Summer Solstice Festival. Expect music, ceremony, night market with food & bar, ethical gifts, and old-fashioned lemonade served from a self-sufficient mobile tiny house.   With performances from: Accomplice Collective, Carnival […]

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]]> https://www.nscf.org.au/city-farm-fest/feed/ 0 January E-News https://www.nscf.org.au/january-e-news/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=january-e-news https://www.nscf.org.au/january-e-news/#respond Tue, 06 Feb 2024 23:44:01 +0000 https://www.nscf.org.au/?p=23778 January E-News – Read the full newsletter HERE. Northey Street City Farm publishes a free electronic newsletter every month. To subscribe to our monthly free e-newsletter, CLICK HERE. The newsletter will go to your inbox once a month to let you know what is happening at the farm. 

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]]> https://www.nscf.org.au/january-e-news/feed/ 0 December E-News https://www.nscf.org.au/december-e-news/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=december-e-news https://www.nscf.org.au/december-e-news/#respond Wed, 20 Dec 2023 01:07:37 +0000 https://www.nscf.org.au/?p=21004 December E-News – Read the full newsletter HERE. Northey Street City Farm publishes a free electronic newsletter every month. To subscribe to our monthly free e-newsletter, CLICK HERE. The newsletter will go to your inbox once a month to let you know what is happening at the farm. 

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]]> https://www.nscf.org.au/december-e-news/feed/ 0 November E-News https://www.nscf.org.au/november-e-news-3/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=november-e-news-3 https://www.nscf.org.au/november-e-news-3/#respond Wed, 29 Nov 2023 00:01:40 +0000 https://www.nscf.org.au/?p=19224 November E-News – Read the full newsletter HERE. Northey Street City Farm publishes a free electronic newsletter every month. To subscribe to our monthly free e-newsletter, CLICK HERE. The newsletter will go to your inbox once a month to let you know what is happening at the farm.

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]]> https://www.nscf.org.au/november-e-news-3/feed/ 0 October E-News https://www.nscf.org.au/october-e-news-3/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=october-e-news-3 https://www.nscf.org.au/october-e-news-3/#respond Wed, 18 Oct 2023 00:52:24 +0000 https://www.nscf.org.au/?p=18037 Read the full newsletter HERE. Northey Street City Farm publishes a free electronic newsletter every month. To subscribe to our monthly free e-newsletter, CLICK HERE. The newsletter will go to your inbox once a month to let you know what is happening at the farm.

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]]> https://www.nscf.org.au/october-e-news-3/feed/ 0 September E-News https://www.nscf.org.au/september-e-news-3/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=september-e-news-3 https://www.nscf.org.au/september-e-news-3/#respond Wed, 18 Oct 2023 00:51:28 +0000 https://www.nscf.org.au/?p=18035 Read the full newsletter HERE. Northey Street City Farm publishes a free electronic newsletter every month. To subscribe to our monthly free e-newsletter, CLICK HERE. The newsletter will go to your inbox once a month to let you know what is happening at the farm.

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]]> https://www.nscf.org.au/september-e-news-3/feed/ 0 August ENews https://www.nscf.org.au/e-new-august/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=e-new-august https://www.nscf.org.au/e-new-august/#respond Wed, 18 Oct 2023 00:49:26 +0000 https://www.nscf.org.au/?p=18033 Read the full newsletter HERE. Northey Street City Farm publishes a free electronic newsletter every month. To subscribe to our monthly free e-newsletter, CLICK HERE. The newsletter will go to your inbox once a month to let you know what is happening at the farm.

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]]> https://www.nscf.org.au/e-new-august/feed/ 0 July Enews https://www.nscf.org.au/july-enews/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=july-enews https://www.nscf.org.au/july-enews/#respond Wed, 02 Aug 2023 00:22:37 +0000 https://www.nscf.org.au/?p=17031 Read the full newsletter HERE. Northey Street City Farm publishes a free electronic newsletter every month. To subscribe to our monthly free e-newsletter, CLICK HERE. The newsletter will go to your inbox once a month to let you know what is happening at the farm.

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