Crowd Harvest; Seeds for Christmas

5th Annual Crowd Harvest; Seeds for Christmas 

Victoria, Australia. 

It's on again! After such great success over the last 4 years, people all over Victoria have been empowered to grow their own food. Save your left over and excess seeds this Spring, and send them to someone in need. 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. Variety is welcome! 

DIVRS & Darebin Fruit Squad 

Urban Food Program 

285 High Street 

Preston 3072 

http://www.divrs.org.au 

Email: urbanfood@divrs.org.au 

Social enterprise providing food relief to long term unemployed, aged workers and refugee groups, including food growing practices. 

STREAT Tastes Good. Does Good. 

66 Cromwell Street, 

Collingwood, VIC 3066 

www.streat.com.au 

www.facebook.com/streat.melbourne
www.twitter.com/streatmelbourne 

STREAT is a social enterprise designed to assist homeless youth in Melbourne. 

CITY HARVEST 

16 Portrush Loop, 

Armstrong Creek Geelong 3217 

www.cityharvest.com.au 

Social enterprise providing training for food security to long term unemployed, aged workers and refugee groups. 

Asylum Seekers Resource Centre Foodbank 

Level 1, 214 - 218 Nicholson St, 

Footscray VIC 3011 

Monday to Friday 10.00 am - 5.00 pm. 

t: 03 9326 6066 

e:admin@asrc.org.au 

Feeding refugees and those seeking asylum. 

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. 

Daylesford Seed Library, 

Cnr Bridport & Albert Streets, 

Daylesford VIC 3460 

https://www.hepburn.vic.gov.au/hepburn-libraries-3/ 

Rowville Community Centre 

40 Fulham Road, 

Rowville VIC 3178 

Food kitchen distributing and growing fresh food for low income Australians. 

The Grow Cook Share Project 

Ingrid Phyland 

The Salvation Army 

PO Box 992 

Bendigo, Vic, 3550 

https://bendigofoodshare.org.au/contact-us/ 

Growing, teaching food growing and sharing community home grown food to all. 

Alex Salmon 

CARRINGTON HEALTH 

Level 2, 43 Carrington Road 

Box Hill VIC 3128 

Food Gardens for Low income Australians 

www.carringtonhealth.org.au 

FOOD FOREST 

ASHBURTON GROUP 

C/O The Craig Family Centre 

7 Samarinda Avenue 

Ashburton VIC 3147 

https://foodforestashy.wordpress.com/ 

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. 

FOOD GARDEN - The Craig Family Centre 

7 Samarinda Avenue 

Ashburton VIC 3147 

http://craigfc.org.au/ 

Food Gardens for Low income Australians 

Alternatively: 

TINY TROWEL 

P.O Box 4076 

Box Hill South VIC 3128 

Twitter: @Tiny_Trowel 

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