Cultivating Community in Richmond, Victoria | Non-profit organisation

Cultivating Community

Locality: Richmond, Victoria

Phone: +61 3 9429 3084

Address: 106 Elizabeth St 3121 Richmond, VIC, Australia

Website: https://linktr.ee/CultivatingCommunity

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25.01.2022 A research project about hidden hunger at the University of Melbourne is looking for paid student interviewees who are currently living in Melbourne. -Do you struggle to eat balanced meals? -Do you find yourself eating poorly to make ends meet? -Do you sometimes go hungry, or worry you will? ... If yes, they'd like to hear from you! Selected participants will be reimbursed with a $40 voucher and interviews will be conducted on Zoom. Please use the form below to indicate your interest, and they will email shortlisted interviewees within 2-4 weeks. Register at: go.unimelb.edu.au/mo3j

25.01.2022 Melbourne Food Hub grew 40kgs of beautiful fresh food for our food relief packs! Look at those radishes! @sustainaus Moving Feast Vic

24.01.2022 Thank you all who have supported these food relief efforts!! <3 Yarra Libraries Open Table

24.01.2022 St Anthony's recently welcomed two new beautiful Australorp chooks!

23.01.2022 #LibrariesChangeLives when we work together to serve our community. Thank you to people like Brenda for sharing your story with us.

22.01.2022 Farmwall have generously allowed Moving Feast Vic to use all of these beds to grow more food for food relief this spring! Thanks Farmwall!

22.01.2022 Thank you Peta!!

21.01.2022 REPOST @opntbl With the snap lockdown coming to an end, we are happy to announce that our Friday Foodbank will be going ahead! We look forward to seeing you there, along with our amazing partners @yarralibraries and @cultivatingcommunity

21.01.2022 We are excited to work with @justice_vic @vicgovDHHS, Belgium Avenue @NRCHaus and our community to refit a kitchen, improve lighting and develop an alfresco space to help improve safety and connection in and around North Richmond #socent #community #SDGs. Thanks to #VicGov Community Crime Prevention grant @justice_vic

20.01.2022 St Mary Magdalen's #SchoolFoodGarden students made origami seed packets, adding sunflower seeds to be given as Christmas gifts. This year, see what you can share from your very own garden for holidays gifts - share #JoyfulFood

20.01.2022 How can we help you live your best life in #Yarra? Should we stick to roads, rates and rubbish or do you want to see more green spaces to picnic and play...? We’re developing our first Community Vision, which will guide our work for the next 15 years and we want to hear from you. Tell us what you think online at https://bit.ly/32OYloi. #YourYarraOurFuture #YarraLife

20.01.2022 We are so proud to announce three of our #SchoolFoodGardens have WON the following @VictorianSchoolsGardenAwards: South Eastern Regional Award - St Anthony's School, Noble Park Primary. Independent Schools Victoria - Greatest Demonstrated Improvement of Green Space: Our Lady of Fatima Primary School AND Aberfeldie Primary School. Thank YOU to each school community for all the support #schoolgardenawards #FoodEducation

20.01.2022 Here at Cultivating Community, we take sustainability very seriously and in 2021 we aim to increase our actions and advocacy, to help reduce our impact and contribute to #SDG13 Climate Action. We aim to; -Inform local authorities to develop their plans -Encourage biodiversity in our community gardens and spaces -Work with like-minded and ethical social organisations... If you would like to find out more please contact us. See more

20.01.2022 We just picked up over 300 freshly picked bok choys from the Collingwood Children's Farm via Moving Feast Vic and facilitated by Cultivating Community! Our Food Security Program certainly keeps us all connecting!! Wonderful partnerships!

18.01.2022 Love food and cooking? Then you'll love our 2021 campaign 'Let's Keep Cooking'. We invite you to support our community cooking across Melbourne’s public housing communities! These initiatives cultivate connections, develop lifelong skills, and spread joy through the sharing, preparing, and cooking of delicious nutritious food! Keep cooking with us in 2021! Donate at: givenow.com.au/letskeepcooking

18.01.2022 In go the cucumber seedlings at the sunny Mother of God School Food Garden! #SchoolFoodGardens teach kids all about growing, harvesting and preparing #HealthyFood Along with a deep understanding of food security and #sustainability

17.01.2022 Two employment opportunities for community/residents from City of Yarra to support North Richmond Community Health HRAR program and beyond. Consumer and Community Liaison: https://nrch.com.au//Consumer-Community-Liaison-2020-Posit

17.01.2022 Great to be part of this conversation about overcoming barriers and facilitating access to land with Costa Georgiadis Official- Ben our Community Gardens team leader joined alongside Dan Tatton of 3000acrescres, Susan Laukens of Knox Community Gardens Society Inc and Lou Ridsdale of Food Is Free Laneway Ballarat. Thanks again Sustain: The Australian Food Network for making this happen :)

16.01.2022 It was great to join this webinar with like-minded organisations, including Maree Mackenzie, CEO Homes North Community Housing, Nick Rose, Executive Director Sustain: The Australian Food Network and our own Rob Rees, CEO Cultivating Community - talking about how to sow seeds of love and compassion through community and urban agriculture in housing. Facilitated by Jean Darling, Commune and Co and hosted by i2C's Sustainability Lead Claire Bowles. Thanks i2C for helping to ge...nerously taking this opportunity to fundraise for CC. Listen again via: https://vimeo.com/471820638

16.01.2022 Donated produce boxes find their way from Miranda and the generous customers at Melbourne Farmers Markets to Peta with Open Table at Yarra Libraries coordinating #foodrelief packs to households in need.

15.01.2022 Opportunities for jobseekers to find seasonal agriculture work across the state, and training to assist those new to agriculture. https://agriculture.vic.gov.au///the-big-victorian-harvest

15.01.2022 Yesterday, under the beautiful summery sunshine, we soft-launched phase 2 of our food relief efforts: a market-style foodbank! With our partners @ya...rralibraries and @cultivatingcommunity we invited our food parcel recipients to visit in-person (finally!!) where they could collect fresh and frozen food (including food donations from @ozharvest and @foodbankaus and meals from @stmaryshouseofwelcome ) and free books. At the end of day one, we’d given around 118 bags of food to 110 people- incredible! We’ll be running this initiative for the next few Fridays, before we break over the new year (We’ll be back in mid-Jan though!). If you or anyone you know is needing food relief, come down to our Fitzroy HQ (125 Napier St) between 12.30-2.30pm on the 4th, 11th and 18th December. See you there! See more

14.01.2022 The beginnings of our seed raising partnership with CERES Propagation Team Thank you CERES Environment Park for allowing us to use this space - the seeds have been purchased through Project Feedback funds and once raised will go to our public housing tenant gardeners to support their growing. In addition, another 100K open pollinated seeds will be distributed to our gardeners. COVID-19 has had a big impact on these gardens, we are doing everything we can to reopen them safely and support gardeners to get back to growing their own food. Thanks to all who have contributed to Project Feedback - if you want to learn more visit givenow.com.au/feedback

11.01.2022 A massive thank you to the team at CERES Joe's Market Garden and their generous customers who have purchased Pay it Forward boxes - these fresh, organic vegetables from Joe's go directly to those in need - distributed by Cultivating Community, Open Table and Yarra Libraries to public housing residents across Carlton, Fitzroy and Collingwood feeling the impacts of the COVID pandemic. If you would like to Pay it Forward - visit https://openfoodnetwork.org.au/ceres-joes-s-market-ga/shop

11.01.2022 Regenerative Housing: Emerging Perspectives Webinar Series starts next week! We are grateful that all proceeds go to our Project Feedback campaign Event One is on 23/9 - Finding Refuge: What are the pathways to permanent housing for those most in need? http://ow.ly/ziQg50Bt8Lg

10.01.2022 Huge thankyou to "Collingwood college" for their donation of 50kgs of Jerusalem artichokes, they are going straight into food relief for Moving Feast Vic . Big thanks to @streat staff JB and Katie for the help with digging!

10.01.2022 @Transitions Film Festival returns to MPavilion and online this February with another epic line-up of inspirational documentaries about the world we live in. #Gamechangers. Available online nationwide! www.transitionsfilmfestival.com #TFFest21

10.01.2022 Planning a socially distanced picnic? Keep things zero waste with Carlton Kitchen Library event packs! We have bowls, plates, cutlery, cups and wine glasses as well as serving dishes and table cloths available! Get in contact to book - available with yearly membership or for a once of price of $20. https://carltonkitchenlibrary.myturn.com/library/ Photo by Cassandra Hogan.

09.01.2022 There has never been a year like this last one, and if not for the tenacity and willingness of our team, led by CEO Rob, to respond actively to all changes we have faced we would be in a very different place. Read our 2019/20 Annual Report https://tinyurl.com/yy6ddcqh

07.01.2022 To wrap up #zerowasteweek2020 we’re so proud to highlight our relief efforts to the citizens of Yarra who are experiencing food insecurity. In partnership ...with @yarralibraries and @cultivatingcommunity we will continue to work to help those in need while diverting quality food from landfill. Special thanks to the many other organisations who have been a part of this- it really is a stunning community effort See more

07.01.2022 We are proud to be a Good Food Organization working towards a healthy and fair food system in alliance with Community Food Centres Canada. We are joining a growing network of like-minded organizations across Canada who share a commitment to offering healthy and dignified food programs in their communities. In 2021, we look to expand our Food Centre work and are open to discuss opportunities with wider community! Please get in touch!

07.01.2022 Thank you Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance for having us on your Solidarity Session Empowering & Connecting Communities. Listen to our CEO Rob Rees Food Works Australia talk about fostering and empowering communities through food, and why the knowledge, connectedness, and the agility of local food organisations is so important to food system resilience. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypIOb0s61qU&feature=youtu.be

06.01.2022 Glenda from cohealth made this beautiful bunting to brighten up our food distribution area! Thanks heaps Glenda!! #joyfulfood #foodrelief Open Table

05.01.2022 At Floyd Community Garden, Janice has continue proving garden support throughout COVID-19. This cohealth project engaged CC's Garden Consultation to revitalize their community gardens since 2019. With support from Moving Feast Vic GROW, plenty of fresh veg is going straight to housing tenants. Great work team!

04.01.2022 Get your ideas and thoughts heard in new reference groups in North Richmond! Submit an expression of interest to apply to join a group by Wed 23 Sept. The gro...ups are: - Safety, Amenity and Neighbourhood - Economic Revitalisation and Inclusion - Community Participation, Health and Wellbeing In particular, women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people of all ages and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply. The Department of Health and Human Services can arrange interpreters on request. For more details and how to apply please see: https://www.dhhs.vic.gov.au/north-richmond-precinct-engagem

03.01.2022 This coming Sunday at 9AM Ben, our Public Housing Community Gardens Team Leader, will be chatting with Costa on Facebook Live for an important conversation about overcoming barriers and facilitating access to land. Thanks Sustain: The Australian Food Network for making this happen

03.01.2022 The final webinar in the Regenerative Housing series is 'Designing for hope and resilience. What next, how can our housing address issues we face?'. Tune in 2 December 8am-9am (AEST). All fund raised goes back into CC programs! Housing is fundamental in enacting and shaping our core understanding of humanity’s place in the world. In face of multiple crises on a global and local scales, we look to explore how housing can be designed to address the complex issues of climate ch...ange and the increased likelihood of natural disasters whilst also enabling a new way of living that places reconnection with nature, each other and ourselves at the core and serves to provide a new collective way of being in this world that harmonises communities within their environments and offers the potential for thriving futures for all. We will be hearing perspectives on the recent VIC and NSW announcements regarding social housing programmes and exploring how we can design for real social and environmental outcomes that will benefit community. Our speakers will share international case studies on rapid response projects to overcome homelessness with a focus on Passive House design as well as designing for inclusive communities and the potential that lies in timber design for social housing projects. Speakers: Wendy Hayhurst, CEO CHIA Warren Schmidt, Ryder Vancouver Prof Elizabeth Grant, RMIT Dayne Davis, Managing Director, Timber Design Studio https://i2c.zoom.us//72160015385/WN_zNtCTm9FTHSWcfvf8cpYVA

03.01.2022 Cultivating Community needs your help! We value your feedback. Cultivating Community wants to target future projects so that we can better meet your needs and improve the experience with Cultivating Community. We want to inspire a healthy and just world with more connected communities who care not only for each other but also our earth. ... Please take 5 minutes to complete the attached survey to help us achieve this. Big thanks to Swinburne University of Technology for managing this. https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLSdZvsH8NtGEDwI1g/viewform

01.01.2022 As #GlobalGoalsWeek comes to a close, we look forward to interacting with the SDGs through our programs and planning. After our 2020 review, CC aims to have greater impact in 7 SDG areas to help bring meaningful impact to our communities.

01.01.2022 Fitzroy Urban Harvest Swap Update - https://mailchi.mp/ef1bcf5f2fdc/vwk7u483mn-3801854

01.01.2022 The world is at a turning point for people and planet. Global Goals Week 2020 puts partnerships to work campaigning world leaders to #TurnItAround for the #GlobalGoals and recover better from #COVID19. This year we mapped our programs against the #SDGs, and found our Top 5 reflecting our mission and what is at the core of our organisation. This mapping process celebrates the impact our work is currently having, and looks at ways we can improve and enrich our projects.

01.01.2022 We distributed around 500 meals to public housing tenants donated by Kinfolk Cafe last Friday - thank you Yo and Nick from Kinfolk for your generous donation #joyfulfood #foodrelief Open Table Yarra Libraries