Saturday 28 October 2017

Crowd Harvest: Seeds for Christmas



Save your seeds for refugees!

NFPs supporting, enabling and empowering those in need to adopt self sustaining food gardening practices are looking to establish Seed Banks. By a central body establishing a seed bank, people facing difficult circumstances can access the seeds and establish food gardens.
Gardeners everywhere harvest more seeds than can be stored, and need to be used before they expire. In this Crowd Harvest, Australian gardeners with excess seeds are invited to send them in a Christmas card or holiday card to one or more NFPs from the list below :-)
Please package seeds in individual and labelled packages so food relief recipients can easily take them home. Experienced gardeners, please send viable, open pollinating seeds. Anyone wanting to purchase seeds for the NFPs, please look for websites and/or nurseries that promote 'heirloom', 'non genetically modified', 'open pollinating', or 'organic'.
Each of the NFPs listed below has a certified horticulturalist employed, and ready to look after the seeds, either to start the seeds, store the seeds or distribute to others facing crisis yet know how to start seeds :-) You can be assured the seeds will be looked after.
Start saving your seeds now, and pop in a Christmas card to send to Food relief agencies looking to adopt sustainable approaches to empower resilience.
Variety is welcome!

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ASRC Foodbank
Level 1,
214 - 218 Nicholson St
Footscray VIC 3011
Monday to Friday
10.00 am - 5.00 pm.
https://www.asrc.org.au/ 
DIVRS & Darebin Fruit Squad
Urban Food Program
285 High Street
Preston 3072
http://www.divrs.org.au/#divrs
http://www.darebinfruitsquad.org/ 
FOOD GARDEN - The Craig Family Centre
7 Samarinda Avenue
Ashburton 3147
http://craigfc.org.au/
Food Gardens for Low income Australians
PS. SAM FARBOD
NEWHOPE IRANIAN COMMUNITY
PO Box 255
Kerrimuir VIC 3129
https://www.newhope.net.au/Persian
An Iranian community who fled to Australia due to religious persecution.
ASRC Foodbank
179 Lonsdale St,
Dandenong
Monday to Thursday
10am – 3pm.
https://www.asrc.org.au/ 
Nortec Volunteering
6 Main Street
Murwillumbah
NSW 2484
https://www.nortec.org.au/community-solutions/volunteering/
Helping Aussies flooded out re establish food gardens
Alex Salmon
CARRINGTON HEALTH
Level 2,
43 Carrington Road
Box Hill VIC 3128
Food Gardens for Low income Australians
www.carringtonhealth.org.au
STREAT
66 Cromwell Street,
Collingwood, VIC 3066
Monday to Sunday
8.00am - 3.00pm
www.streat.com.au 
FOOD FOREST ASHBURTON GROUP
C/O The Craig Family Centre
7 Samarinda Avenue
Ashburton 3147

https://foodforestashy.wordpress.com/
TINY TROWEL
P.O Box 4076
Box Hill South 3128
Victoria
Twitter: @Tiny_Trowel
 http://mylittletrowel.blogspot.com.au/
NEWHOPE COMMUNITY CARE
Relief Care @NHCC
PO Box 255
Kerrimuir VIC 3129
http://www.newhopecare.net.au/food-pantry
Food Relief Centre looking to apply sustainable approaches to food resilience care.
40 Fulham Road, 
Rowville VIC 3178
Food kitchen distributing and growing fresh food for low income Australians.
ANNOUNCEMENT: 
Tiny Trowel is one of 5 Finalists in the 2017
Banksia Foundation Sustainability Awards:  Communication for Change!

http://banksiafdn.com/39-award-worthy-sustainability-ideas-announced/ 
I am humbled, and grateful to be honoured by Banksia!
Bless and Opa! 😍
Paul from the ASRC Foodbank working at the 3000Acres installation at the
Inner West Veggie Patch in Footscray.
http://3000acres.org/
Much of the Harvest will go towards the ASRC Foodbank supporting refugees.
Crowd Harvest seeds will assist in establishing any ASRC partnership food garden.
https://www.asrc.org.au/
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