St Lucia Community Garden

 Sweet as . .  .

Somewhat surprisingly, in August the Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner asked the SLCG if we would like a donated European Bee Hive (called a FlowHive) for the new Garden from his Grant Funds. 

We already have plans for hosting stingless native bees on the Community Garden site, but the European Bees have a major role to play in wild and garden plant pollination all over Australia now, so with the co-operation of Hillstone and the St Lucia Golf Links, we agreed to site the Bee Hive on their property.

The site is next to a large stand of flowering trees and permanent water, and quite a long way away from people (other than perhaps the occasional golfer faced with an urgent call of nature...

The boxed-up FlowHive arrived from Northern NSW last week, and was presented to St Lucia Community Garden Launch Organiser Ian Nicolson by the LM himself and Cr James Mackay (on the Learning Terrace) and has now been put together by Steve at Hillstone. 

 We've found a great shady/sunny spot and all we need now is some bees. They are on the way. Until the Hive settles down, we expect to let them alone, but Hillstone's Executive Chef has plans to use as many local ingredients as possible and some Sandy Creek Honey fits that bill pretty well . . .