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! Please help share the news by forwarding this email to a friend, or pressing 'like' and 'sharing' on Facebook. A Facebook Group "Tiny Trowellers" has been created. Please join the conversation at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1283951395005787/ 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/ Copyright © 2017 Tiny Trowel, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in while taking a survey, signed up in person or via email, or through the website/blog. Our mailing address is: Tiny Trowel P.O Box 4076 BOX HILL SOUTH, VICTORIA 3128 Australia