Thank you!!!

Green Okra Seed call out for the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre's "Harvest of Hope" gardens yielded hundreds of seed donations! Thank you!
ASRC Harvest of Hope pictured above with their carrot harvest.
Individuals sent seeds from around Victoria and the Baker's Creek Heirloom Seed company sent seed all the way from
the USA!!! https://www.rareseeds.com/
Thank you so much, World!!
Not only did Baker's Creek send Green Okra, but several other food seed varieties in their parcel.
People worldwide are getting on board with sending food seed
to those most in need.
We can do this!
Putting food seed into the hands of individuals and communities,
builds food resilience for generations.

Crowd Harvest - Seeds for Christmas

The third Crowd Harvest -Seeds for Christmas is coming. If you are an NFP supplying food growing skills, and/or harvest to those most in need, send an email to tinytrowel7@gmail.com to request your name on the list. You will need to include:

Overview of community organisation and vision
Description of who you are empowering
Postal address for Christmas seeds

For gardeners, start saving all that wonderful seed in readiness for the giving season.

Aims and objectives

Tiny Trowel aims to harness the power and generosity of the wider community - 'The Crowd' - through:

1. Crowd Harvests - providing avenues through which home produce gardeners might donate fresh fruit, herbs and vegetables to food relief providers

2. Crowd Sharing- developing faith community projects to cultivate their land, enriching their food relief programs

3. Crowd Farming - inviting the community to donate food plants to farm public land

4. Crowd Talks - talks to community members to explore ways to raise their own home produce gardens

Compelled to Action

The ABS provides overwhelming data on Australia's homelessness issues, and connected to this is food insecurity.

Food Relief Providers are reporting that the increasing numbers of those presenting for assistance is increasing to the point where they can no longer meet the need.

On Census night 2011 there were 105,237 people experiencing homelessness, with 45,813 or 44% of these women. Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census Data (2011)

Domestic and family violence/Homelessness/Food Insecurity

Women are more likely to be victims of domestic and family violence, and because of this threat to their safety women (and children) are forced, or make decisions to leave their home. Over a third of women over the age of 15 have experienced physical, psychological and/or sexual violence at the hands of a current or former partner. Mouzos & Makkai, 2004,International Violence Against Women Survey

Domestic and family violence is the number one reason why people present to specialist homeless services, with 55% of female clients citing this reason and a total of 25% of all clients.www.homelessnessaustralia.org.au

Call to Action