Brisbane City Council’s
Green Heart Fair
Brisbane’s favourite sustainable living festival
Discover the Green Heart Fair
Taking place in autumn, Brisbane City Council’s Green Heart Fair is Brisbane’s favourite sustainable living festival!
The fair features over 120 of Brisbane’s leading sustainability experts ready to share practical tips and tricks to help you live a more eco-friendly life. You’ll be treated to sustainability displays, workshops, eco-friendly products, free native plants, artisan markets, live entertainment, food trucks and more at these free, family and dog-friendly events.
Don’t miss the Green Heart Fair at Victoria Park / Barrambin (access via Gilchrist Avenue, Herston) on Sunday 29 May. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram for the latest updates!
Brisbane City Council’s Green Heart Fair is delivered in partnership with Brisbane Sustainability Agency.
The next fair
Green Heart Fair 2022
29 May 2022
Victoria Park / Barrambin
What’s On
There is so much to see and do at Brisbane’s favourite sustainable living festival. Click here for the main program and on the + symbols below to check out what is happening at each of the Green Heart Fair stages and zones.
– 3000 Free Native Plant Giveaway
– Green Community Engagement
– Healthy Waterways
– EMS & Pollution Control
– Environment Centres
– Geckoes Wildlife
– Urban Forest
– Major Projects – Murrarie International Cycle Park
– Invasive Species
– Weeds information and management
– Council’s Electric Truck
– Council’s Vintage Chevy Truck
10am Welcome to Country – Ceremonial Welcome to Country Aunty Theresa – Turrbal/Jagera and Danggan Balun Traditional Elder/Custodian
10.30am dirtgirl and scrapboy stage show
11am Live music: Little Mountains
12pm Urban Utilities “Water Warriors” Every Drop Counts stage show
12.30pm Live music: Little Mountains
1pm dirtgirl and scrapboy stage show
1.30pm Urban Utilities “Water Warriors” Every Drop Counts stage show
2pm Live music: Little Mountains
If you’re still on the road to recovery or want to prepare for future floods, come along to the Fair where you can learn about practical solutions including adopting flood resilient design, techniques and building materials to ‘build back better’.
Flood Resilient Homes
Brisbane City Council’s Flood Hub
Talk to a Planner
Brisbane City Council
Build Back better
JDA Co
Evolved Construction
Other services
Birdie’s Tree
State Emergency Services (SES)
Rural Fire Service (RFS)
City Resilience
9am Small changes making a global impact and how to set up a community garden – Renae McBrien – Tarragindi Community Garden
9.30am Bees – Where to begin and what’s right for you? – Jack Stone, Bee One Third
10am Stop using plastic – Ned, Turtle Tribe
10.30am Build Back Better – JDA x Evolved Q&A
11am Sugar-free jam making – Valerie Pearson, Green Living Australia
11.30am DIY furniture building with reclaimed timber – Dickson Lee, Mallow Sustainability
12pm Lowering your household emissions – Brisbane Carbon Challenge , Champion Household Q&A with Liz Cantor
12.30pm How Repair Cafes can help you fix stuff! – Professor Leanne Wiseman, Griffith University & Les Barkla, Repair Cafe Redcliffe Peninsula
1pm Build Back Better – JDA x Evolved Q&A
1.30pm Renovating a Queenslander for energy efficiency: lesson from an energy modeler turned builder – Brett Beeson, PhiSaver
2pm Kim Chi making – Valerie Pearson, Green Living Australia
Exhibitors
– Bee One Third – Bees and Honey Tasting
– Bee One Third – Beehives with native stingless bees
– Boomerang Bags
– Bokashi Ninja
– Brandition
– Brisbane Carbon Challenge
– Composta Australia
– Department of Environment and Science
– Direct Compost Solutions
– Fibre for Good (Bunya Cottage Creations)
– Food Connect Brisbane
– Frog in a Teacup
– Green Living Australia
– Griffith University Australian Repair Network
– Healthy Focus Eco Store
– Hi Vibe Water (Mobile Hydration Station)
– Hurley Architects
– Officeworks ft. –World’s Biggest Garage Sale
– Reef Safe (Hey I’m Vegan)
– Southern Cross University (SCU) – Solar Sunflower + Electric Kombi + Display
– Swanborough Funerals
– The Turtle Tribe
– UV Power
– Vessel Nundah
Remember to pack your reusable water bottle and fill up at their hydration stations. You can also bring your pooches to their Doggy Hydration Station to keep your four-legged friends hydrated all day.
And don’t miss the Urban Utilities Water Warriors performing at the Live on the Green stage at 12pm and 1:30pm.
Prevent. Reuse. Recycle Program
All day Test your bin knowledge game
10am Recycling food waste
11am dirtgirl and scrapboy meet and greet
1pm Reducing waste in school lunches
1.30pm dirtgirl and scrapboy meet and greet
2.30pm Love your leftovers
Exhibitors
– Waste Education
– Brisbane City Council’s Reduce Reuse Rethink
– Containers for Change
– Brisbane City Council – Litter & Illegal Dumping
Exhibitors
– Art for earthlings
– Brandition’s Mini putt putt and giant games
– Brisbane City Council Pop Up Library
– Gracie the Green Tree Frog
– Little Green Thumb’s Colourful Minds Painting Program
– Little Kickers
– Magical Park
– Make your own Grass Heads
– Nature Play Weaving Workshop
– Parents Room
– Story Book corner
– Veggie Patch Program
– Wild Rangers Wildlife
Exhibitors
– Benzina Zero
– Brisbane Metro
– Green Bridges Program
– Translink
– Volvo Cars Brisbane North
– Brisbane Sustainability Agency
– Cup Café by Mallow Sustainability
– Junior Ranger Sustainability Quest
– Victoria Park Archway
– Victoria Park Project
– Waste sorting Station by Mallow Sustainability
Food Trucks
– BRISVEGANS (V)
– Café Cartel Coffee and Sweets
– Catch & Kiss Seafood
– CHEF 365
– Double Park Sidecar Coffee
– Dutch Treats
– Fresh Gozleme
– Gelato a Go-Go
– G-free donuts
– Grass Fed Vegans (V)
– Hierba Santa
– Juice Power
-Mobile Coffee Pod
– Mr Whippy Ice Cream (GF)
– Neshama Catering (GF, V)
– New Farm Rotary BBQ
– Precious Coffee (Vic Park Display)
– Rolls Pho Mi (GF, V)
– Socal Tacos
– The Vood Kitchen
Community Groups
– Australia Zoo Wildlife Warriors
– Brisbane Catchments Network
– Brisbane Tool Library
– Donate Life
– I Want a Greyhound
– Nature Freedom
– Northey Street City Farm
– Paws & Brooks Nature Sanctuary
– RSPCA
– Tarragindi Community Garden
– The Brahma Kumaris
Handmade Markets by BrisStyle
Brisbane’s best artisans will showcase their finest collections of crafty handmade trinkets and oddments galore. Meander through the stalls of emerging and established local artisans, all 100% locally made. Learn more about these artisan markets at BrisStyle.
About the fair
Brisbane City Council’s Green Heart Fair launched in 2009 and has grown to become Brisbane’s favourite sustainability
festival.
Delivered in partnership with Brisbane Sustainability Agency, the Green Heart Fair celebrates and promotes innovative sustainable living in a fun, family-friendly environment with free activities, entertainment and sustainability workshops.
With a strong commitment to minimising the events’ carbon footprint through recycling and reduction practices, the ultimate goal is to have a waste-free event.
Our commitment to sustainability
What we do
Waste Stations
We love educating people on waste. Around the Fair, we have multiple waste stations including general waste, recycling & organic waste bins. The stellar team from Mallow sustainability take each bin to our waste sorting station on-site and ensure everything is 100% sorted, meaning no food scraps or recyclables end up in landfill.
Waste Warriors
Our waste warriors are onsite to help residents with any questions they have about what goes in what bin! They are also roaming all day to pick up any sneaky bits of rubbish that don’t make it into the bin.
Mug Library
Our lovely coffee vendors offer discounts to anyone who brings their own reusable cup. But what if you forget to bring one? Our mug library was introduced to reduce single-use coffee cups and help visitors be sustainable even if they forget their reusable coffee cup. Visitors can grab a mug, enjoy a delicious coffee, then return it to be washed and put back into our mug library to be used again.
Reduce
We aim to reduce the amount of waste created at the Green Heart Fair. In order to do this we have implemented the following initiatives…
- Banned the sale of single-use plastic water bottles
- We have hydration stations onsite for event attendees to fill their reusable water bottles
- We hand out free reusable water bottles to those who don’t have one
- Banned plastic bags
- Banned plastic straws
- Banned the use of balloons
Upcycle
We love upcycling! Across the festival site you will find many items from chairs, tables, signage and props that have been purchased second hand and repurposed for use at our events.
Items that can’t be reused are donated to be repurposed for those in need by our wonderful friends in the upcycling industry.
Our food vendors
Some of Brisbane’s best food trucks will be onsite feeding the hungry crowds. There is something for everyone, from vegetarian to vegan to meaty meals.
- Our food vendors source their products locally where possible.
- All serve ware is recyclable or compostable.
We only have food vendors at the Green Heart Fair who practice sustainability in their business. For example, some stalls have adopted the following;
- Recycling their cooking oil
- Composting all food waste
- No chemicals or artificial colours and flavours.
Do your part
To create a clean and green Brisbane there are a few things you should bring along to the Green Heart Fair:
- your hat
- reusable water bottle
- reusable coffee cup
- go card for the bus or lock for your bike
- a smile
Were you caught on camera at previous Fairs?
Tag yourself on our Facebook page for all the photos from previous events.
Exhibit at the Green Heart Fair
Join the sustainability movement in Brisbane at the Green Heart Fair
Exhibitors are invited to join the line-up of over 120 leading sustainability organisations, experts, passionate presenters, businesses, community groups, green thumbs, creative artisans and foodies, to share knowledge and information on how to live more sustainably.
We have strict sustainability guidelines because we love a clean and green Brisbane. We aim to minimise our contribution to landfill and ask that you respect and adopt our aims and values. Our ultimate aim is to have a waste-free event where no rubbish from the event ends up as landfill by maximising recycling and reduction practices.
Highlights from the May 2021 Green Heart Fair
20,000
attendees
94%
attendee satisfaction
1.37m
media impressions
120
exhibitors and sponsors
18,000+
online fans
232,255
people reached through social media
Please note:
– Charities and community groups can submit an expression of interest to exhibit by contacting the events team. All applications are subject to approval.
– Event organisers reserve the right to refuse any applications that do not fit with the purpose and guidelines of the event.
Sponsors
Supporters
FAQs
The Fair welcomes more than 120 leading sustainability organisations, community groups, artisans, foodies, green-thumbs, conservationists, businesses and eco experts to share information and knowledge with Brisbane residents on how to live more sustainably. Fair goers are treated to heaps of fun activities and entertainment throughout the day with a jam-packed schedule.
If you are cycling in, plan your route with Cycling Brisbane’s route planner or their Riding in Brisbane guide.
Street parking is also available on the surrounding streets. Please follow Brisbane City Council residential parking rules to ensure effective traffic flow and local access.
To facilitate an event that complies with current COVID guidelines, the organisers of Green Heart Fair will have the following safe event practices in place:
Regular professional cleaning of high touch points areas throughout the site
Provision of hand sanitising stations throughout the site
Electronic payment methods preferred
Protecting you from COVID-19:
Practise physical distancing
Wash hands regularly with soap and water
Keep surfaces clean
Cough or sneeze into your arm
Stay home if you are unwell and get tested
Please comply with current Queensland Health directives when attending the Fair.
Reusable water bottle
Reusable coffee cup
A smile