The Potting Shed In Nimbin

The Potting Shed at Nimbin Being only a 15 minute walk away from Nimbin Town, this conveniently located retreat is an absolute must stay. This separate single storey property has been newly renovated and includes 2 queen bedrooms and boasts brand new furniture with nature inspired details throughout - be one of the first ever to stay and enjoy! With stunning views of both Nimbin Rocks and Blue Knob from the property, you’ll truly be immersed in the natural beauty of Nimbin and it’s icons. Spend your days visiting hot spots in Byron Bay, Ballina and the Hinterland, local waterfalls or national parks, only an hour away (or less) and return to 15 acres of land that you can explore that is home to stunning local birds, curious wallabies, and vibrant wildlife that changes every day - right on your doorstep. Relax in the generous light filled living space with full size dining, a fully functional kitchen and brand new bathroom with shower over the bathtub. With privately screened access to the Airbnb and separate parking available for 2 vehicles, ‘The Potting Shed’ feels more like a home away from home, just in a lush new setting. Should the weather turn cool, we’ve also provided wet weather options such as board games, DVDS, a Nintendo Wii, a Playstation, and VR headsets. There is a map on the information sheet provided in the AirBnB showing our boundaries, you are more than welcome to explore the 15 acre property. We usually try to greet guests on arrival, after that were more than happy to leave you alone to enjoy the space, but should you need any help or information feel free to come over to the house or phone us. Nimbin is a village in the Northern Rivers area of the Australian state of New South Wales, approximately 30 km (19 mi) north of Lismore, 33 km (21 mi) northeast of Kyogle, and 70 km (43 mi) west of Byron Bay. Nimbin is notable for the prominence of its environmental initiatives such as permaculture, sustainability, and self-sufficiency, as well as the cannabis counterculture. Writer Austin Pick described his initial impressions of the village this way: "It is as if a smoky avenue of Amsterdam has been placed in the middle of the mountains behind frontier-style building facades. ... Nimbin is a strange place indeed." Nimbin has been described in literature and mainstream media as 'the drug capital of Australia', 'a social experiment', and 'an escapist sub-culture'. Nimbin has become an icon in Australian cultural history, with many of the values first introduced there by the counterculture becoming part of modern Australian culture. History Nimbin and surrounding areas are part of what is known as the "Rainbow Region", which is of cultural importance to the Indigenous Bundjalung people. The name Nimbin comes from the local Whiyabul (Widgibal) clan who’s Dreamtime speaks of the Nimbinjee spirit people protecting the area. Since in the year 1,973, the area has been a haven for Australia's counterculture. Forests of red cedar first attracted loggers to the area in the (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) s, but by the end of the century most of the land had been cleared. With the cedar forests gone, Nimbin was subdivided in (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) , with the land turned over to dairy farming and growing bananas. In the (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) s, the local dairy industry collapsed due to recession and Nimbin went into serious economic decline until (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) , when the Aquarius Festival, a large gathering of university students, practitioners of alternative lifestyles, hippies, and party people, was held in the village. The festival was the first event in Australia that sought permission for the use of land from the Traditional Owners and made a significant attempt at reconciliation. After the festival, hundreds of participants and festival goers remained in Nimbin to form communes and other multiple-occupancy communities, in search of an "alternative lifestyle". Nimbin in fact made legal history for the first ever application of group title ownership of land in Australia. Since the Aquarius Festival, the region has attracted thousands of writers, artists, musicians, actors, environmentalists, and permaculture enthusiasts, as well as tourists and young families escaping city life. Interviews were conducted in (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) documenting the alternative lifestyle movement of Northern NSW in the (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) s, focusing on the town of Nimbin and the (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) Aquarius Festival. Interviewees discussed how they arrived in Nimbin, their efforts at organising the Aquarius Festival, and the lasting impact the festival had on the township. In (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) , the Nimbin community staged the "Battle for Terania Creek" to protect the remaining local rainforest. As a result, the New South Wales government imposed a "no rainforest logging" policy covering the entire state, the world’s first government legislation to protect a rainforest. The population of Nimbin before the failure of the dairy industry in (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) was 6,020. In the (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) census, Nimbin had a population of 352, compared to 321 in the (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) census. The region's high rural population (35 percent of Lismore residents, according to the census) means that Nimbin services a surrounding rural area of about ten thousand people living within 15 km (9.3 mi). Nimbin had the highest unemployment rate in the Lismore Local Government Area in (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) , at 18.1 percent. Nimbin's population in the (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) census was 468. The (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) census published Nimbin's population as 319, with local services provided by the City of Lismore (its area containing 45,000 people). Cannabis culture and MardiGrass In New South Wales the cultivation, possession, or sale of cannabis is punishable by law. In Nimbin, cannabis used to be openly bought, sold, and consumed. The prevalence of a drug culture in Nimbin since (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) has been accompanied by a prevalence of collective and public creativity: colorful and spiritually motivated art (including large paintings above shop awnings), music, poetry, craft, and fashion can all be seen on the main street. The town is known as a hotspot for alternative social activities, grassroots political discourse, and the espousal of naturalist, humanist, anarchist, feminist, libertarian, permissive, new-age, mystical, and radical social philosophies (which can all be seen as collective creative endeavors). To rally for an end to the prohibition of cannabis in Australia, Nimbin has held an annual MardiGrass festival since (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) On the first weekend with any part of it in May, thousands descend on Nimbin for cannabis-oriented fun and frivolity. Activities include: a Prohibition Protest Rally and Parade with the Ganja Faeries, the Nimbin Cannabis Cup, the Hemp Olympix, which includes the Bong "Throw'n'Yell", Joint Rolling, and the Grower's Iron Person event, where runners must first carry a 20 kg (44 lb) sack of fertiliser, then a bucket of water, and finally "the crop", as a tribute to the difficulties faced by growers in the hills, and to show that cannabis users can be fit and healthy. At night, entertainment ranges from the Harvest Ball and Picker's Ball, rave doof parties, to poetry and jazz in local cafes. There are a number of shops in Nimbin geared towards cannabis culture. The Nimbin Hemp Embassy is a "soft entry point for drug information", and a shop selling anything to do with hemp, except cannabis itself. Clothing and natural skin products using industrial hemp products. The Nimbin HEMP Bar used to allow patrons to smoke cannabis while enjoying fresh coffee and cake. In April (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) , the police announced their intention to close the HEMP Bar and Museum. Landlords were sent letters to this effect. Rather than cause legal problems for their landlord, the HEMP Bar crew voluntarily closed their doors and moved out. The HEMP Bar reopened in (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) as a coffee and hemp information centre, but smoking of cannabis is no longer encouraged. The Nimbin Museum was a collection of local artifacts, local art, and alternative culture open for viewing. The Museum and two other buildings were destroyed in a fire on 13 August (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) There are plans to rebuild a proper museum at the site. Police intervention The level of police intervention against drug trafficking has fluctuated over the years; however, the State and Federal Police have never been able to stop or even significantly reduce the prevalence of cannabis use in the village. In April (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) , a squad of 110 officers, six horses, and several police dogs conducted searches in a police operation. Several buildings were searched including the Hemp Embassy. Eight people were arrested, 72 people were issued cannabis cautions, and police seized 4 kilograms (9 lb) of cannabis and cannabis ‘cookies’. The police sent letters to the Nimbin Museum and the Hemp Bar leaseholders indicating an intention to seek closure orders under the Restricted Premises Act of (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) for the MardiGrass weekend. The Restricted Premises Act allows for the closure of premises for three days and orders may be obtained weekly. The Museum reopened with a new leaseholder while the Hemp Bar remained closed for eight months and reopened in January (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) CCTV cameras in the main street of Nimbin had pushed dealing off the streets and into the museum, and the Hemp Embassy had been requesting that police deal with the problem. Following the raids, Hemp Embassy volunteer Andrew Kavasilas commented: "This is a real slap in the face for people who would like to see other resources in town. We have been inviting the police to come down and sort out the dealing in the museum for years and this is their response. They could work with the community, but they're not interested." Many locals voiced their opposition to the police operation. Following the operation, Richmond Police local area commander Superintendent Bruce Lyons vowed to "shut down the drug trade.” Attractions Nimbin has a police station, hospital and medical centre, lawyers, real estate agency, service station with NRMA accreditation, restaurants, cafes, and a pub. The pub has an in-house restaurant. There are a number of sporting clubs and the bowling club maintains licensed premises. The Nimbin Neighborhood and Information Centre (NNIC), run by local volunteer residents, offers visitors guides, computers for Internet use, a small Centrelink office, legal advice, a nurse practitioner, a welfare worker, weekly soup kitchen in the adjacent park, and a publishing service for the local newspaper. Local attractions include the town hall, annual MardiGrass, markets, bands, walks to the mountains and day-to-day activities from buskers to street stalls. Other nearby attractions: Nimbin Rocks, a series of jagged outcrops, solidified plugs left after the erosion of volcanic dykes and vents, and Blue Knob, that are both landmarks for the village. Mount Warning (known to the Bundjalung people as Wollumbin, meaning 'cloud catcher'), is about 50 km away. Named by James Cook as a maritime navigational indicator of dangerous offshore reefs, Mt. Warning's summit is the first part of mainland Australia to receive light from each sunrise. Mount Warning is the remaining centre plug of a caldera which, 23 million years ago, had a 100-kilometre (62 mi) diameter. Its height was 1,156 meters (3,793 ft), nearly twice the height of Mount Warning today. The summit of Mt. Warning can be climbed via a 9-km, 5-hour return walk through forested slopes. Nightcap National Park is one of the few remaining places to see the remnants of the Big Scrub rainforest. There are local creeks, water holes, and rivers for swimming. Media The Nimbin Good Times is a free monthly community newspaper, also distributed in Lismore, Byron Bay, and some suburbs of Brisbane and Sydney. Nimbin Zone Magazine is Nimbin's bi-monthly magazine featuring creative and artistic people from Nimbin and beyond. The community radio station, 2NIMFM offers an independent alternative media voice and plays a diverse range of music and programming in Japanese, German, and the Bundjalung language. Churches St Mark's Anglican Church — A stone in a gate pillar records: Dedicated - to the Glory of God - and in loving memory of - the gates to St Mark’s are dedicated to the memory of Ernest Andrew McClelland who died aged 68 years of age in (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) They were donated by the McClelland family of Nimbin. St Patrick's Catholic Church — This former church has been decommissioned and is now private property. St Stephen's Presbyterian Church — The current Presbyterian Church was built in (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) For 50 years home missionaries served the parish until the congregation welcomed its first ordained minister in (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) Uniting Church — The former Nimbin Methodist Church became a Uniting Church in Australia parish with the Basis of Union when most congregations of the Congregational Union of Australia, Methodist Church and Presbyterian Church united in the (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) s. The building was designed and built by carpenter Eustace William Henry (Harry) Stang (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) Stanger was born in Bathurst, New South Wales, and was educated at Newington College. In (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) he moved to Nimbin and lived there until his death. With J. W. Bagust, he established moving pictures in the town and showed them for over forty years. As a carpenter he was associated with the construction of many timber buildings in Nimbin. He was a foundation member of the Nimbin Methodist Church Trust, and served as a circuit steward. He was a member of the Loyal Orange Lodge, the first green keeper for the Nimbin Bowling Club, and president of the Nimbin Progress Association. Transport Nimbin is 35 km (22 mi) from Lismore Airport, with flights several times daily to Sydney. Waller's Bus Company operates multiple services per weekday on route 650 to Lismore. Gosel's Bus Service operates two services per weekday on route 630 to Murwillumbah, with connection to Tweed Heads. There is also a school bus service available for the general public on school days to Kyogle. Nimbin is a 15 minute walk, if the car is in the garage, we will be more than happy to save you the walk, although not to late at night.