Healthy Urban Building (HUB)
The HUB, our Healthy Urban Building, opened in 2012. We converted an old portable classroom to a low-energy multipurpose space, boasting a passive-ventilation layout, low-toxin paint and insulation made from recycled plastic bottles.
It has a registered kitchen, classroom and library, plus a worm composting toilet and rainwater capture on the roof. Solar panels help make our HUB sustainable, generating more than our share of electricity use.
Our site, quarry and HUB are available for events, workshops and activities.
HUB registered kitchen: $60 per hour
Hire includes preparation surfaces, stovetop, saucepans, oven, sink, microwave, dishwasher and whatever space there may be in the fridge. Hirers will need to bring their own knives and check what other equipment they may need. This category is for cooking master classes and to make products for sale requiring a registered kitchen.
Equipment:
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Large pans and pots for preserving
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Oven, microwave, dishwasher, fridges
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Range of utensils for different cooking tasks
HUB workshops with limited kitchen use: $45 per hour
Using the HUB for teaching and workshops, including limited use of the kitchen. Hire of this space includes tea/coffee making facilities, chairs, tables, whiteboard.
HUB classroom or garden pavilion: $35 per hour
HUB classroom with tea and coffee making facilities, you need to bring your own tea and coffee and milk.
The hire of the garden pavilion includes covered areas, picnic style seating, a sink and preparation area, play kitchens and sand pit. It includes surrounding lawns and pathways as well as to the toilet and tea / coffee making facilities in the HUB. It's suitable for children’s activities that coincide with our purposes, outdoor workshops, and other events as approved by the committee.
Participants are not to interfere with surrounding garden beds, including picking or harvesting anything from them, as these are not communal property. Kid’s toys for the sandpit must be packed away, the pavilion swept and the area left clean and tidy. There is no electricity at the Pavilion.
Barbeque and pizza oven
Hire is at the discretion of the committee and separate charges apply for use of these facilities.
Get in touch or send an email to grow@wcg3280.org.au with the details of your event and we can discuss fees and availability.
Pizza oven
Outside, we have a wood fired pizza oven, built during a workshop in 2013. The flowering gum design of the mosaic was completed in 2016. It is the centre of our garden celebrations, with pizza parties a delicious highlight throughout the year.