Welcome to Community Harvest:
Community Harvest is based in the Yarra Ranges, east of Melbourne. We want to help our community and yours, to grow and eat more locally grown produce, from the backyard to the farm, the home kitchen to the restaurant.
Food is at the centre of everything we do, so taking care of how and where we grow and process it gives us a lot of power to build healthy people, strong communities and a healthy environment.
We are building this website into an information, networking and advocacy hub, which we hope will help individuals and communities in our own bioregion and beyond, to create a better future...
- Worried about rising living costs, communities where you feel alone, the environment?
- Want more local, sustainable, healthy food for your family and community?
- Want to help your community become more enjoyable, safe and prosperous in spite of global challenges?
- Want to learn more about growing, processing, or cooking food, or have skills and knowledge you can share with others?
- Want to help your local economy?
- Want to help the environment?
- Help you and your community to grow or access healthy, sustainable, affordable, locally produced food.
- Connect you and your community with the skills, knowledge and resources to help you create a vibrant, cooperative and resilient community.
- Help you and your community deal with climate change, peak oil and the rising cost of living.
- Develop tools and strategies to empower people in taking the next step.
- Help you and your community find creative ways of looking at and solving old problems in new ways, and seeing and solving new problems in old ways....
Why does it matter?
- Food can take a lot of energy and other resources to produce and transport, and create a lot of pollution and greenhouse gas.
- In some communities there are lots of places to buy unhealthy fast foods, but hardly anywhere to buy healthy, fresh produce. These communities are often poor, so it can hard for people in these areas to stay healthy and take care of their families the way they'd like to.
- If all our food food comes to us from a long way away, what happens when the cost of fuel used to transport food goes up or fuel becomes harder to get? Where will we get our food?
- Farmers and other producers often don't get fair prices for what they produce. How can we help?
What difference can local food make?
- Growing some of our own food can help us all to look after ourselves, our families and our communities, even when money is scarce.
- Food grown at home, in community gardens, or on small farms near where we live, using less oil and other resources, helps us reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and resource use.
- Growing food near where we live helps us build resilient communities that aren't so affected by economic downturns, fuel and resource shortages, emergencies and other challenges, and are able to take care of themselves.
- By buying our food from local producers, we can help keep our local economies strong, support local farmers and encourage and work with them to take care of the environment and build stronger, more connected communities.
Video: Think Global: Eat Local Pt 1
Video: Think Global: Eat Local Pt 2
Series of 2 videos from Seed International, on the great contribution local food can make in our lives, including examples from around the world and much more....
If you can't watch the video or just want more information, visit the Seed International website...
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