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Crowd Harvest: Tomatoes for Easter We saw small contributions come forward to the NFPs involved for Easter.  Yes!  And.......The concept is catching on :-)  Folks independently contributed to their locals - so we heard that CERES sent 16 boxes of saucing tomatoes to Lentil As Anything!! AWESOME!! So a big shout out to everyone involved in giving and recieving this Easter! e Tiny Trowellers FB Group Crowd Autumn Harvest: Mother's Day Individual excess = Community abundance Mother's want to feed their children :-) Refugees from across the world have landed in Melbourne - many are mothers wanting to feed their children. Women who have run from DV are also wanting to feed their children. Anyone growing produce in their own backyard inevitably produces excess - more than one family can consume. Autumn brings a bounty and gardeners are overwhelmed with produce! Why not take some down to your local Food Relief provider and make Mother's Day wonderful this May :-) Autumn yields: Apples, Artichokes, Bananas, Beets, Capsicum, Chard, Chestnuts, Chilli, Figs, Grapes, Hazelnuts, Herbs, Kiwi Fruit, Lemons, Medlars, Melons, Nasturtiums, Olives, Peaches, Pears, Nashi Pears, Persimmons, Pomegranates, Plums, Pumpkin, Quinces and Spinach. DIVRS & Darebin Fruit Squad Urban Food Program 285 High Street Preston 3072 Monday to Friday 9.30am - 3.00pm http://www.divrs.org.au/#divrs http://www.darebinfruitsquad.org/                  ASRC Foodbank          Level 1,          214 - 218 Nicholson          Footscray VIC 3011          Monday to Friday          10.00 am - 5.00 pm.               https://www.asrc.org.au/          Food seeds welcomed!                     ASRC Dandenong            179 Lonsdale St,        St,            Dandenong            Monday to Thursday            10am – 3pm. The Italian newspaper Il Globo carried the news of Crowd Harvest: Tomatoes for Easter.  With a National readership, the journalists were very interested in the concepts and hope to carry news of future events. Salute! Tune in tomorrow (Monday May 1st) at around 6.00 pm to hear Tiny Trowel's progress   Opa! http://3wbc.org.au/ LAND @ MELBOURNE WATER An online portal @ Melbourne Water is available where folks wanting to develop community projects, like food growing, can apply for vacant land. CHECK IT OUT!! https://www.melbournewater.com.au/getinvolved/usemelbournewaterland/Pages/Land-for-community-projects.aspx Rev Marcus at Newmarket Baptist church is all about growing food in communities. Connecting with the Farnham St Neighbourhood House, there is a food forest and raised bed system all harvested to run cooking lessons in the House. The front of the church welcomes you in with Apple trees and wicking beds! Now that's the way to build food resilience! https://newmarketbaptist.church/eat-2/eat/ The Neighbourhood Project http://theneighbourhoodproject.org/ collectively met at the Fitzroy Town Hall this week to review and celebrate the three municipality projects.  CoDesign hosted the productive day: http://codesignstudio.com.au/ Many local councils were represented, all looking for ways to support more 'PlaceMaking' in consultation with local communities.  The Box Hill wicking food gardens have been relocated to Neighbourhood houses, and discussions are occurring around running food swaps at those sites. Barnardos have put together a short video highlighting the data around reasons children and young people become homeless.  This group experience acute food security issues.  All contributions to established NFPs are deeply appreciated. Tiny Trowelers donated to the 3000acres food wicking beds  installation in Footscray.  Thank you!! https://www.facebook.com/CrossRoadsCommunityGarden/?hc_ref=PAGES_TIMELINE&fref=nf Remember, Tiny Trowelers, when we all went and installed the start of a food garden at STREAT, and sent more seeds for Crowd Harvest: Seeds for Christmas - LOOK AT THE RESULTSSSSSSS!!!!  Here we see Chef Keiko picking snow peas for their udon noodle dish.  Yes! Bless and Opa!!!! xxx Love to all

SUSTAIN Sustain have launched an online map showing  all the Food swaps, community gardens, Grow Free Carts in the whole nation! So easy to register, and put your place on the map! Ace! Sign up now and be a part of the National conversation. Sustain http://www.circlesoffood.org/, with the support of the Myer Foundation, has created the Australian Food System Directory as a free resource for everyone who's active in building sustainable, healthy and fair food systems in Australia. We want to make this space more visible, celebrate all the amazing people and organisations around the country doing great work, help people connect with each other, and support the movement as a whole to flourish and become an unstoppable force for big changes. So if you know of a community, verge or school garden, a community kitchen, a great event, an exciting project, a community organisation, some great research or a book or article, register as a user on the Food Systems Directory at www.localfoodloop.com/sustain and let the whole country know about it!

Food gardeners! A University of Melbourne study is looking mapping aspects of urban food growing spaces. If you have the time, and are willing - please fill in the survey: https://eforms.app.unimelb.edu.au/apex/f?p=511:1:

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TT February Enews No. ! View this email in your browser Crowd Harvest: Tomatoes for Easter              NOW ON!!! Individual excess = Community abundance Anyone growing tomatoes in their own backyard inevitably produces excess - more than one family can consume. At the end of summertime, gardeners are overwhelmed with tomatoes! Melbourne food relief providers are currently met with higher demand for emergency assistance than they can manage. If you would like to help, please take any excess home grown tomatoes to one of the following NFPs at the listed opening times.  From the CBD to Epping, from Footscray to Rowville, there will be a place near you ready to receive your excess tomatoes. The NFPs will either distribute fresh or preserve the tomatoes as Passata, Chutney, Sundried or Dell'Olio, and then distribute through their food relief programs. Please help share the news by forwarding this email to a friend, or pressing 'like' and 'sharing' on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1829774750618220/ A Facebook Group "Tiny Trowellers" has been created. Please join the conversation at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1283951395005787/ DIVRS & Darebin Fruit Squad Urban Food Program 285 High Street Preston 3072 Monday to Friday 9.30am - 3.00pm http://www.divrs.org.au/#divrs http://www.darebinfruitsquad.org/  Liberty Church 25 Miller St, Epping VIC 3076 Fridays 9.30 - 12.00 Noon http://liberty.org.au/contact/ 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/ ASRC are happy to accept most home grown produce. Food seeds are welcomed! ASRC Dandenong 179 Lonsdale Street, Dandenong VIC 3175. Monday to Thursday 10am – 3pm. Rowville Community Kitchen Rowville Community Centre 40 Fulham Road, Rowville VIC 3178 Monday to Friday 10.00am - 3.00pm http://rowvillecommunitykitchen.com.au/ Salvation Army, Project 614 69 Bourke St, Melbourne VIC 3000 Monday to Friday 8:00 am - 4:30 pm. http://www.salvationarmy.org.au/melbourne614 STREAT 66 Cromwell Street, Collingwood, VIC 3066 Monday to Sunday 8.00am - 3.00pm www.streat.com.au The Green Cafe 5 St. Columbs Street Hawthorn VIC 3122 Monday to Sunday 8.00am - 3.00pm. http://www.stcolumbs.org.au/Cafe Tiny Trowellers FB Group Know any Italians with an abundance of Tomatoes?  Talking Italian here -  https://www.facebook.com/events/1829774750618220/?active_tab=discussion Spread the word to your Italian speaking friends and let them know how they can be involved. Il Globo will publish an article on Crowd Harvest: Tomatoes for Easter - so look out for it during the first week of April. The Darebin Fruit Squad launched an EBook during the Sustainable Living Festival.  The EBook explains how to start a Fruit Squad in your Melbourne municipality: http://www.divrs.org.au/resources-and-products Any group of volunteers can discuss partnering with a food relief NFP and their local council to apply this approach.  Saving excess food in home back yards, and pushing through to people in real need is a great way of redirecting food from waste.  The approach is a win/win/win for all involved.  Home owners may have a bounty in the back yards, but find that age or infirmity means they can no longer look after their crop.  Volunteers want to contribute to society.  Food relief agencies express they can't always get fresh fruit and vegetables.  People in Melbourne are facing food security issues.  With a Fruit Squad - EVERYBODY WINS!!  Community is created, and everyone is helped with their individual need.  Get a hold of the folks at DIVRS, download the EBook, and get your local council on board.  Fruit Squads would thrive in Melbourne. With the waves of immigration over 100 years, there are orchids from every continent in Melbourne's back yards just waiting to be harvested.  Melbourne - we can do this!  It's just up to you! GET READY!! Two Major Crowd Farming projects on the horizon: Crowd Farming for DHS: Properties for sole parents Crowd Farming for the Homeless: 57 Units to house women in Footscray START CULTIVATING AND PROPAGATING YOUR SEEDS & SEEDLINGS! INSTALLATION LATER IN 2017! Tiny Trowel attended the Sustainable Living Festival great local lunch.  I met my hero Costa!! https://www.facebook.com/events/488478661322858/ A Crowd Sourced share lunch, attendees took a home harvest to an agreed drop off point prior to the event, and then share in a Crowd Feast at the Sustainable Living Festival.  I am thrilled to have met Costa Georgiadis from Gardening Australia :-)  He loved the idea of using social media to encourage anyone with excess to donate to an NFP.  Costa took the TT business card and looks forward to getting more involved in the near future. OTHER EVENTS Build Day at a Footscray Community Garden https://www.facebook.com/events/265881277193305/   Ashburton Home Harvest Swap/Share Perfect weather, abundant produce, and garden tours...the inaugural Ashburton Home Harvest Swap/Share was a terrific success! So many people came with an abundance of produce, seeds, plants, seedlings and bread! We were enchanted by the Babacos, fascinated by figs, and priming with preserves! It was a marvellous event - Thank you everyone!! NEXT EVENT Winton Road Food Forest,  38 Winton Rd  Ashburton 3147 Date: Sat April 22 Time: 9.00 am - 10.00 am https://www.facebook.com/events/1343561652405198/ Located near the Malvern East RSL, diagonally opposite. Park in Pitt St. Bring your homegrown produce, plants, preserves, seeds, seedlings, garden hardware, empty jars for preserves, etc. to share with other local food gardeners at our first Home Harvest Food swap/share-meet at the Food Forest in Ashburton. The Neighbourhood Project Wicking beds were installed in Box Hill Central in January. Food Garden now flourishing! Free Edible Garden Workshop Series Saturday 1 April 2017 to Saturday 8 April 2017 http://www.whitehorse.vic.gov.au/Event-Calendar.html?ItemID=4984&count=1 EcoCity Storytelling was staged on Feb 21, where Tiny Trowel was on the bill!  https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/ecocity-storytelling-night-tickets-31050041510   A fabulous night where many people stepped forward wanting to be involved with Tiny Trowel. The event was run in the style of Pecha Kucha, where storytellers speak to 20 slides, each for 20 seconds. This fast paced event was educational, inspirational and hilarious to attend! Any online publication will come forward when available. DATE AND TIME: Tue 21 Feb 2017 @ 5:30 – 8:00 pm VENUE: Library at The Dock, 107 Victoria Harbour, Docklands Anyone can grow food in their own backyard for those less fortunate.  Here is Paul, growing food for refugees.  A humanitarian crisis unfolds in the middle east daily - at a scale not seen since WW2.  As Melbourne opens the doors to refugees who have been bombed out of their homes, the city faces the task of supplying food.  Anyone can set aside a patch to cultivate food for those who have lost everything.  Many in Melbourne have immediate family who survived WW2 and still tell the stories today.  Our elders built food gardens for themselves and others to survive the famine that followed.  We now need to get out the trowels again, and help in this time of need. If you have the capacity to grow food for those in need, please consider doing so. https://www.asrc.org.au/get-involved/foodandmaterialsupport/ Copyright © 2017 Tiny Trowel, All rights reserved. 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