Crowd Harvest: Winter Citrus

Crowd Harvest: Winter Citrus Crowd Harvest: Winter Citrus Lemon trees are heavy laden in the middle of winter. Nearly every home has a healthy citrus tree producing a bounty in the winter: Grapefruit, Lime, Cumquat, Oranges, Mandarins and Lemons. Citrus helps fight the winter colds and flu. Anyone growing produce in their own backyard inevitably produces excess - more than one family can consume. Winter brings a citrus bounty and gardeners are overwhelmed with fruit! Why not take some down to your local Food Relief provider and help those facing food insecurity and homelessness. We can all lend a hand in providing a lift up. Donating excess home grown produce is a small but significant way to help make a real difference. MELBOURNE CBD, WARRANDYTE, ROWVILLE, COLLINGWOOD, FOOTSCRAY, CROYDEN, AIRPORT WEST and PRESTON. The event runs for the whole winter season - Facebook only allows 2 weeks for event creation, so if you are looking at the Facebook event please ignore the dates. Now and Not Yet Cafe 148 Yarra St Warrandyte VIC 3113 03 9844 0994 Monday to Sunday 8.00 am - 3.00 pm nowandnotyet.com.au Assisting Asylum Seekers and people fleeing domestic violence. Rowville Community Kitchen Rowville Community Centre 40 Fulham Road, Rowville VIC 3178 Monday - Friday 10.00am till 3.00pm http://rowvillecommunitykitchen.com.au/ SALVATION ARMY KITCHEN Melbourne 614 69 Bourke Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Monday - Friday 9.00 am - 4.00 pm https://www.salvationarmy.org.au/melbourne614/ STREAT Tastes Good. Does Good. 66 Cromwell Street, Collingwood, VIC 3066 Monday - Sunday 8.00am till 3.00pm (03) 9629 4222 www.streat.com.au STREAT is a social enterprise designed to assist homeless youth in Melbourne. DIVRS 285 – 287 High Street Preston VIC 3072 Ph 03 9480 8207 Monday- Thursday 9.30 am – 2:30 pm www.divrs.org.au Helping Hands Mission 492 Fullarton Road Airport West 3042 Monday to Friday 10.00 am - 4.00 pm ELISHA CARE 14a Croydon Road, Croydon, VIC 3136 Please go down the drive towards the back for drop off. Monday - Friday 9.00 am - 5.00 pm http://www.elishacare.org/ Asylum Seekers Resource Centre Foodbank Level 1, 214 - 218 Nicholson Footscray VIC 3011 Monday to Friday 10.00 am - 5.00 pm. t: 03 9326 6066 e: admin@asrc.org.au Food seeds also welcomed! To make a contactless donation, please go to the rear of the ASRC building. This is the roller door opposite no. 46 Albert St Footscray. Press the red buzzer to the right of the roller door and reception will open the door remotely. You can drive right in if need be. Please leave any donations on the table marked ‘donations here’, and don’t forget to record your details on the tally sheet so the ASRC can send you a thank-you note! Gippsland Seed Drive The Stephanie Alexander Kitche Garden group is promoting the Gippsland Seed drive for schools.  Seed drives running across Gippsland to restock Primary School Kitchen Gardens affected by the Bushfires 2019 - 20.  The clusters of schools that your donations will bring a smile to include: Lakes Entrance Primary School Bruthen Primary School Toorloo Arm Primary School Tambo Upper Primary School Nungurner Primary School Metung Primary School Paynesville Primary School St Brendan’s Primary School Lakes Entrance Secondary High School Lakes Entrance Child Care Centre Milestone Early Learning Lakes Entrance Please send your clearly labelled seeds and your well wishes to: Gippsland Lakes Complete Health, PO Box 429 Lakes Entrance, VIC 3909 Sustain: the Australian Food Network Survey. Sustain is a collective of organisations with a shared understanding that growing edible food can be a force for good in society. The group is interested in understanding the extent to which the COVID19 restrictions and their legacy have impacted the attitude and actions of community members towards edible food growing. Find out more and have your say now: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/foodgrowing Gardening Australia really is a must watch for any food gardener. Check out this one!  In Whitehorse, the local police partnered with local churches to assist those doing it tough during COVID restrictions in Victoria.  So good to see food seedlings going out with food hampers, creating long term food resilience.