Laratinga Community Shed

13/09/2026

Successful Open day yesterday.

07/09/2026

Laratinga Community Shed Open day this sunday - 13/09/2026. 10am - 2pm. Beautiful items for sale. Have a tour of the shed, check out tools for sale as well. Open day is in conjunction with the Mt Barker Pageant
FREE BBQ by the pageant committee, Hills WoodWorkers will also have a table of items for sale and display

06/09/2026

In conjunction with Mount Barker Christmas Pageant we are holding an OPEN DAY this coming Sunday (13/09/2026)
10 - 2pm
Garage style tool sale
Items for sale .. wooden handcrafted boxes, wind spinners, hanging plant holders and the list goes on ..
Come and get yourself a beautiful handmade item.

06/09/2026

The shed is having an open day this coming Sunday (13/09/2026)
We will be having a garage style tool sale.
Come and have a look around our shed.

05/07/2026

Most people see retirement as the dream.

No alarm clock. No boss. No work.

But for a lot of Aussie men who spent 40 or 50 years as tradies, mechanics, farmers and workers, retirement came with a weird problem nobody really talked about.

Suddenly nobody needed them.

That’s where Men’s Sheds came in.

Across Australia, retired blokes started gathering in community workshops to do what they’d always done: build things, fix things and give someone a hand.

They repair bikes for kids, restore furniture, make toys, build community projects and help charities. But somewhere between the sawdust, cups of tea and arguing about the correct way to sharpen a drill bit, something else happened.

The blokes started looking after each other too.

Because a lot of men aren’t great at sitting in a circle saying “let’s talk about our feelings”.

But give them a broken chair, a workbench and another bloke standing next to them, and suddenly they’ll tell you everything.

Men’s Sheds basically discovered something very Australian:

Sometimes the easiest way to ask someone if they’re okay is:

“Can you give us a hand with this?”

24/06/2025

Sold
Hi, we have at the Laratinga Community Shed 10 bags of sawdust. $5 each

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06/05/2025

Hi all, we have for sale at the shed bags of kindling for $10 and bags of sawdust/shavings for $5. We are open Mondays- Thursdays 9-2pm. Phone 0439 827 046 to order kindling or sawdust.

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16/03/2025

We were lucky enough to have a pair of wedgetail Eagles up the hillside outside the community shed this morning. This one is having a feed on something. The mate flew off before we could get some photos. Photos courtesy of our member Susan .

19/12/2024

Laratinga Community shed wishes everyone a very merry christmas and a safe new year.
We have finished for the year. Wonderful BBQ today and the shed has been cleaned ready for when we open on the 20th January.

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15/03/2024

Join us at the Laratinga Community Shed Open Day and Official Launch!
Wednesday 20th March 11am - 1pm
100 Springs Road Mount Barker
FREE BBQ
Shed Tours
Handmade Items for sale
We hope you can join us!
RSVP via the link below, for catering purposes

Get tickets on Humanitix - Laratinga Community Shed Open Day and Launch Event hosted by Mount Barker Community Centre. Laratinga Community Shed, 100 Springs Rd, Mount Barker SA 5251, Australia. Wednesday 20th March 2024. Find event information.