All Hallows Parish Community Garden, Five Dock: Events

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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Bob's Bistro hosts Mini Vinnies' 1st Birthday Party!

Friday 27 April 2012

It was a great honour for the Garden team's Bob's Bistro, to have been asked to host this very special celebration of a milestone of the Mini Vinnies program run by Mrs Carmen Pollifrone and her team of dedicated children and parents from our Parish school. Mini Vinnies supports the St Vincent de Paul Society's Night Patrol.

Incredibly, the Bob's Bistro team fed over 300 adults and children at this event in the Parish Hall. Everyone enjoyed a plate of pasta with salad and bread, followed by beautiful cakes and slices. Chestnuts were roasted over open fires and marshmallows were toasted!

Again our Parish home cooks generously gave their time to cook the 15 big pots of pasta sauce and an amazing selection of sweets.

We really have an amazing community here at All Hallows!

Bob's Bistro - Spring 2011

Spit-Roasted Spring Lamb

Posting of photos of this beautiful Spring evening in the Garden on Saturday, 19 November last year, is long overdue. Particularly, when we have since held another extremely successful Bob's Bistro since - photos from that night will be posted shortly too. Thank-you to Tony Penteado for his beautiful photography that captured such beautiful memories from both nights.

Spring Lamb from the Moran Family Farm was spit-roasted and served with a spectacular array of salads prepared by many Parish home cooks.

Everybody ate at two long communal tables that spread across the entire Parish lawn.

It was great to have Brian (one of our Parishioners) on hand, who we found out is a retired Butcher. If it weren't for him, we wouldn't have had the lamb so beautifully carved!

Thursday, September 8, 2011

2011 Canada Bay Council Sustainability Awards

We won our first award!

All Hallows Parish School Community Garden was nominated for a 2011 Sustainability Award by Canada Bay Council. We are thrilled to announce that we won the category 'Environment Community Organisation Award' at their Awards Night last Monday night. Michelle Carrick received the award on behalf of the school and was presented by Mayor Angelo Tsirekas, with a beautifully framed certificate and $200 of vouchers for us to spend at Bunnings.

Well done to everyone involved in the development of the garden so far, and congratulations especially to the Year 5/6 children that have been maintaining the Compost system within the school.

Awards Night - Rhodes Phoenix Chinese Restaurant

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Bob's Bistro - What A Night!

Saturday 18 June - Parish Hall

Thank-you to everyone that attended the launch of Bob’s Bistro last Saturday night.

The Parish Hall was transformed into an Italian Eatery for the evening – Father Bob, Father Silvio and 130 parishioners, school parents and children enjoyed the fine fare on offer – bread and olives, pasta and salad, fruit, cakes, gelato and chestnuts which had been roasted over the open-fire. A great value night out for $15 pp! We are vey grateful to the families and businesses that donated ingredients or time to make the event possible.

Proceeds of the night will go towards the development of the garden, but the main vision for the Bistro is for our community to have the opportunity to come together to enjoy the “fruits” of the garden. With the garden in its early stages, we weren’t able to serve produce from our garden this time, but the plan is for the Menu of each seasonal event to be developed from what will be harvested at that time of year.

Looking forward to the warmth of Spring, we are about to start planning our spring crops. Feel free to email us bree@seedharvestspoon.com.au with any Menu ideas (I’m thinking Spring lambs….) for “Prima Vera” at Bob’s Bistro, so that we can plant ingredients.