New Grants
IQ recently received $11,000 from the NSW Department of Lands for storage sheds and two camping platforms for our sustainable living eco-expo.

We also received $20,000 through Ballina Employment and Training Centre to establish our community organic garden.

Community Organic Garden
With help from Dan Hamilton and the BETC crew, IQ is transforming the eastern side of the IQ Reserve into a community organic garden, with communal food trees and herbs and organic market gardens.

IQ SCENE
The IQ SCENE (Sustainable Community Employment Network Enterprise) is growing with a great crew of volunteers involved in a range of exciting activities at Island Quarry.

With huge thanks to our current volunteers, our organic community garden is ready for planting, our office is wired for IT and our workshed is (almost) set up for the next round of creative building projects. In the next few months we will be offering workshops in composting toilet construction and flowform installation, as well as a range of building and recycling projects to improve IQ's community facilities.

There's so much happening that we need more help to make the Island Quarry Arts and Eco Park an excellent community resource for everyone.

Come and be part of the SCENE @ IQ.

IQ Facilities
IQ is available for private workshops, weddings, meetings, celebrations and ceremonies.

IQ Event Support
We can also provide support to affiliated local community groups for arts and environmental events and activities (including public liability insurance by arrangement).

Q Development News
IQ's development plans are nearly, but not quite, fully approved by Byron Shire Council to build better community facilities at the Island Quarry Reserve, including stage one of our sustainable living technologies expo and more community arts facilities.

Ask IQ what you can do to help get more community facilities on the ground.

BFNS
The Bushland Friendly Nursery Scheme has now been handed over to local Councils in the region. More information from your local Council or visit the BFNS website

Membership Special
Join IQ now for membership benefits. Benefits include: contributing to community facilities and discounts at local businesses. Membership is $10/$20 [Concession/Employed] Membership info

• A two to five-ton truck
• A tractor and slasher
• A good-sized ride-on mower
• An industrial strength mulch machine
• Repairable lawn mowers & brush-cutters
• Spare garden tools, hand tools, power tools

• Computer equipment (Win98 friendly or later)
• A good high-resolution digital camera
• Functional laptop computers

• Any 12 volt electrical gear
• Solar panels
• Solar water pump
• Back-up generator
• Windmill

• Backpack fire extinguishers
• Storage containers and garden sheds
• Used building materials
• Hardwood and bamboo for building
  
• Bricks & pavers
• Water tanks
• Flowforms

• Green waste (fine)
• Mulch & clean manure
• Potash, Dynamic lifter, blood & bone, organic life
• 200 litre drums
• Hardwood sawdust
• Food Trees: Avocado, Bananas, Blueberry, Davidson plum, Finger-lime, Lemon myrtle, Lychees, Macadamia, Mandarin, Pink grapefruit, Passionfruit (Banana & Hawaiian), Pecans, Tahitian lime, Tamarillos, Stone & Citrus Trees

E-mail IQ if you can donate or put us in touch with any of the above. Thanks!