Welcome to the Community Harvest Project:

Concerned about rising living costs, community health, social isolation, dwindling resources?
Want to make more local, sustainable, healthy food available for your family and your community?
Want to help your community work together and cope better in the face of global challenges?
Want to learn more about food growing, processing, cooking or related areas, or have skills and knowledge you can share with others?
Want to help your local economy?
Want to help the environment?

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The Community Harvest Project exists to:

Help individuals and groups to grow or access healthy, sustainable, affordable, locally produced food.
Connect individuals and groups with the skills, knowledge and resources to help them 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 appropriate tools and strategies to empower people in taking the next step.
Provide an environment in which individuals and communities can reflect on and review the worldviews out of which we create our lives and societies, and where appropriate, challenge and develop new approaches and responses to meet the changing needs of our world... read more...

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Local Food:

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 economically and socially disadvantaged too, 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 it 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 1: Think Global: Eat Local Pt 1

Video: Think Global: Eat Local Pt 2

Video 2: Path to Freedom

Think Global: Eat Local

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...