Portarlington Grow Free Produce Tree & Food Swaps in Portarlington, Victoria | Community organisation

Portarlington Grow Free Produce Tree & Food Swaps

Locality: Portarlington, Victoria

Address: 28 Brown Street 3223 Portarlington, VIC, Australia

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25.01.2022 Has anyone tried roasting a whole sunflower head!? This lady sure makes it looks delicious!

25.01.2022 Looks pretty cool!

25.01.2022 Lots of potted herbs and succulents under the Tree this morning looking for new homes! There was parsley, mint, Vietnamese mint, sagey looking plant?, chives, and pottet succulents, also out of pots more succulents, rosemary, parsley and kumquats! Thank you to the generous growers, gatherers and givers All welcome to gather this goodness, no need to give to take. .... GROW FREE Take what you need, Give what you can . Locally grown and free . Grown by the Community, for the Community . Grow less, share more . The Port Produce Tree is located @ 28 BROWN STREET, PORTARLINGTON . The Produce Tree will continue to be OPEN EVERY DAY to give and/or take fresh uncut homegrown produce. There are currently NO SWAPS happening. **PLEASE NOTE - If you are at all UNWELL, please DO NOT visit the Tree, including dropping or taking. Please WEAR A MASK when visiting the Tree. If you visit the Tree and there is another visitor, please wait until they have left the tables. We are encouraging only ONE VISITOR at a time please. Please also WASH HANDS or use hand sanitiser before and after visiting the Tree (even better - bring hand sanitiser with you or wear gloves). Thank you for taking care of our Community . ~Don't forget to THOROUGHLY WASH all items taken from the Tree before consuming. We also encourage givers to please wash before leaving produce under the Tree~ . From little things...BIG things grow . #freecommunityproducetree #portarlingtonproducetree #portproducetree #growfree #bellarineswap #portarlingtonswap #portarlington #sustainability #cropswap #foodisfree #permaculturegeelong #homegrown #communitygarden #growandgive #bellarine #foodswap #produceswap #produceexchange #zerowaste #waronwaste #plasticfree #geelong #greatergeelong #community #growyourown #foodsharing #foodtrade #growyourownfood #gardening #givewhereyoulive See more

24.01.2022 Thanks Barry - new upcycled watering can top works a treat!

23.01.2022 Thank you to the givers of beautiful fresh basil, delicious plums and lemons that were under the Tree today! Also still some rhubarb, apples, rosemary, succulents and more lemons! Thank you to all the generous growers, gatherers and givers Have a lovely day in the beautiful sunshine

19.01.2022 Lots of colour under the Tree today! We have tomatoes, rosemary, pears, parsley, oregano, succulents, potted plants,into, ground cover plants (the name skips me??) and more! Enjoy! Thank you to the generous growers, gatherers and givers All welcome to gather this goodness, no need to give to take .... GROW FREE Take what you need, Give what you can . Locally grown and free . Grown by the Community, for the Community . Grow less, share more . The Port Produce Tree is located @ 28 BROWN STREET, PORTARLINGTON . Please park either on Brown St or just off Willis St when visiting the Tree. Please DO NOT DRIVE in or over the car park - foot traffic only! . The Produce Tree will continue to be OPEN EVERY DAY to give and/or take fresh uncut homegrown produce. There are currently NO SWAPS happening. **PLEASE NOTE - If you are at all UNWELL, please DO NOT visit the Tree, including dropping or taking. Please WEAR A MASK when visiting the Tree. If you visit the Tree and there is another visitor, please wait until they have left the tables. We are encouraging only ONE VISITOR at a time please. Please also WASH HANDS or use hand sanitiser before and after visiting the Tree (even better - bring hand sanitiser with you or wear gloves). Thank you for taking care of our Community . ~Don't forget to THOROUGHLY WASH all items taken from the Tree before consuming. We also encourage givers to please wash before leaving produce under the Tree~ . From little things...BIG things grow . #freecommunityproducetree #portarlingtonproducetree #portproducetree #growfree #bellarineswap #portarlingtonswap #portarlington #sustainability #cropswap #foodisfree #permaculturegeelong #homegrown #communitygarden #growandgive #bellarine #foodswap #produceswap #produceexchange #zerowaste #waronwaste #plasticfree #geelong #greatergeelong #community #growyourown #foodsharing #foodtrade #growyourownfood #gardening #givewhereyoulive See more

19.01.2022 A little update on our Community Garden! A relatively small patch of dirt, but we have such a lovely variety growing! Thanks to the Grow Free Garden Faries, we have tomatoes, carrots, raddishes, beans, nasturtium leaves and flowers (caught a snail in the act of enjoying a flower ), chives, silverbeet and parsley (both self-seeded), and a beautiful blooming geranium! Thank you so much to all who volunteer their time and efforts to keep the Grow Free Garden growing, and ...for those who have donated seeds/seedlings. ALL are welcome to pick the goodies that have grown. Please leave the flowers though, as they are there to let all enjoy and make our garden look pretty GROW FREE Take what you need, Give what you can . Locally grown and free . Grown by the Community, for the Community . Grow less, share more . The Port Produce Tree is located @ 28 BROWN STREET, PORTARLINGTON . Please park either on Brown St or just off Willis St when visiting the Tree. Please DO NOT DRIVE in or over the car park - foot traffic only! . The Produce Tree will continue to be OPEN EVERY DAY to give and/or take fresh uncut homegrown produce. There are currently NO SWAPS happening. **PLEASE NOTE - If you are at all UNWELL, please DO NOT visit the Tree, including dropping or taking. Please WEAR A MASK when visiting the Tree. If you visit the Tree and there is another visitor, please wait until they have left the tables. We are encouraging only ONE VISITOR at a time please. Please also WASH HANDS or use hand sanitiser before and after visiting the Tree (even better - bring hand sanitiser with you or wear gloves). Thank you for taking care of our Community . ~Don't forget to THOROUGHLY WASH all items taken from the Tree before consuming. We also encourage givers to please wash before leaving produce under the Tree~ . From little things...BIG things grow . #freecommunityproducetree #portarlingtonproducetree #portproducetree #growfree #bellarineswap #portarlingtonswap #portarlington #sustainability #cropswap #foodisfree #permaculturegeelong #homegrown #communitygarden #growandgive #bellarine #foodswap See more

17.01.2022 So much under the Port Produce Tree today awaiting new homes! There are lemons, radishes, rosemary, kale, oregano, thyme, LOTS os sage, silverbeet, parsley, succulents, bush lemon (I think) clippings, bay leaves and some nasturtium leaves shared straight from our Grow Free Community Garden! There are also LOTS of strawberry plants! Please help yourselves! Thank you to the generous growers, gatherers and givers All welcome to gather this goodness, no need to ...give to take. . GROW FREE Take what you need, Give what you can . Locally grown and free . Grown by the Community, for the Community . Grow less, share more . The Port Produce Tree is located @ 28 BROWN STREET, PORTARLINGTON . Please park either on Brown St or just off Willis St when visiting the Tree. Please DO NOT DRIVE in or over the car park - foot traffic only! . The Produce Tree will continue to be OPEN EVERY DAY to give and/or take fresh uncut homegrown produce. There are currently NO SWAPS happening. **PLEASE NOTE - If you are at all UNWELL, please DO NOT visit the Tree, including dropping or taking. Please WEAR A MASK when visiting the Tree. If you visit the Tree and there is another visitor, please wait until they have left the tables. We are encouraging only ONE VISITOR at a time please. Please also WASH HANDS or use hand sanitiser before and after visiting the Tree (even better - bring hand sanitiser with you or wear gloves). Thank you for taking care of our Community . ~Don't forget to THOROUGHLY WASH all items taken from the Tree before consuming. We also encourage givers to please wash before leaving produce under the Tree~ . From little things...BIG things grow . #freecommunityproducetree #portarlingtonproducetree #portproducetree #growfree #bellarineswap #portarlingtonswap #portarlington #sustainability #cropswap #foodisfree #permaculturegeelong #homegrown #communitygarden #growandgive #bellarine #foodswap #produceswap #produceexchange #zerowaste #waronwaste #plasticfree #geelong #greatergeelong #community #growyourown #foodsharing #foodtrade #growyourownfood #gardening #givewhereyoulive See more

17.01.2022 Lots of colourful gifts under the Tree today! There were lemons, fresh rosemary, fresh parsley and seedlings, flowering borage, sage, some plants and a lovely colourful offering of amazing goodness so kindly donated by Feed Me Bellarine . Thank you to the generous growers, gatherers and givers All welcome to gather this goodness, no need to give to take.... . GROW FREE Take what you need, Give what you can . Locally grown and free . Grown by the Community, for the Community . Grow less, share more . The Port Produce Tree is located @ 28 BROWN STREET, PORTARLINGTON . Please park either on Brown St or just off Willis St when visiting the Tree. Please DO NOT DRIVE in or over the car park - foot traffic only! . The Produce Tree will continue to be OPEN EVERY DAY to give and/or take fresh uncut homegrown produce. There are currently NO SWAPS happening. **PLEASE NOTE - If you are at all UNWELL, please DO NOT visit the Tree, including dropping or taking. Please WEAR A MASK when visiting the Tree. If you visit the Tree and there is another visitor, please wait until they have left the tables. We are encouraging only ONE VISITOR at a time please. Please also WASH HANDS or use hand sanitiser before and after visiting the Tree (even better - bring hand sanitiser with you or wear gloves). Thank you for taking care of our Community . ~Don't forget to THOROUGHLY WASH all items taken from the Tree before consuming. We also encourage givers to please wash before leaving produce under the Tree~ . From little things...BIG things grow . #freecommunityproducetree #portarlingtonproducetree #portproducetree #growfree #bellarineswap #portarlingtonswap #portarlington #sustainability #cropswap #foodisfree #permaculturegeelong #homegrown #communitygarden #growandgive #bellarine #foodswap #produceswap #produceexchange #zerowaste #waronwaste #plasticfree #geelong #greatergeelong #community #growyourown #foodsharing #foodtrade #growyourownfood #gardening #givewhereyoulive See more

16.01.2022 Would anyone have a replacement cap for this watering can we use at the Tree please? Or alternatively, if anyone has a watering can at home you no longer use and you'd like to rehome it at the Tree, we'd happily accept! If you can help, feel free to get in touch, or even just pop the cap/can next to our tank, which is near our Grow Free Community Garden please! 28 Brown St, Portarlington. Thank you

14.01.2022 Nature putting on a show with this beauty that was under the Tree the other day! After asking friends what it is, as I've never seen it before!, I found it was Euphorbia Wulfenii. A beautiful evergreen shrub that is quite hardy in the Australian diverse climate. Do wear gloves though and take when cutting, as it has a highly irritating milky sap! The stirking yellow flowers are just stunning! .... Thank you to the generous giver All welcome to gather the goodness under the Tree, no need to give to take. . GROW FREE Take what you need, Give what you can . Locally grown and free . Grown by the Community, for the Community . Grow less, share more . The Port Produce Tree is located @ 28 BROWN STREET, PORTARLINGTON . Please park either on Brown St or just off Willis St when visiting the Tree. Please DO NOT DRIVE in or over the car park - foot traffic only! . The Produce Tree will continue to be OPEN EVERY DAY to give and/or take fresh uncut homegrown produce. There are currently NO SWAPS happening. **PLEASE NOTE - If you are at all UNWELL, please DO NOT visit the Tree, including dropping or taking. Please WEAR A MASK when visiting the Tree. If you visit the Tree and there is another visitor, please wait until they have left the tables. We are encouraging only ONE VISITOR at a time please. Please also WASH HANDS or use hand sanitiser before and after visiting the Tree (even better - bring hand sanitiser with you or wear gloves). Thank you for taking care of our Community . ~Don't forget to THOROUGHLY WASH all items taken from the Tree before consuming. We also encourage givers to please wash before leaving produce under the Tree~ . From little things...BIG things grow . #freecommunityproducetree #portarlingtonproducetree #portproducetree #growfree #bellarineswap #portarlingtonswap #portarlington #sustainability #cropswap #foodisfree #permaculturegeelong #homegrown #communitygarden #growandgive #bellarine #foodswap #produceswap #produceexchange #zerowaste #waronwaste #plasticfree #geelong #greatergeelong #community #growyourown #foodsharing #foodtrade #growyourownfood #gardening #gi See more

12.01.2022 First pick of ripened tomatoes from our Grow Free Community Garden! And more beans What would you make with this duo? GROW FREE Grown by the Community, for the Community

12.01.2022 The kids had fun collecting the fallen almonds in the grass the other day ... it was like an easter egg hunt! Dropped them at the Tree today - hope someone can dry/prepare them and enjoy! There were also lemons and limes, heaps of beautiful fresh parsley, some rosemary, succulents and a couple of Yucca under the Tree, waiting for new homes! Thank you to the generous growers, gatherers and givers All welcome to gather this goodness, no need to give to take.... . GROW FREE Take what you need, Give what you can . Locally grown and free . Grown by the Community, for the Community . Grow less, share more . The Port Produce Tree is located @ 28 BROWN STREET, PORTARLINGTON . Please park either on Brown St or just off Willis St when visiting the Tree. Please DO NOT DRIVE in or over the car park - foot traffic only! . The Produce Tree will continue to be OPEN EVERY DAY to give and/or take fresh uncut homegrown produce. There are currently NO SWAPS happening. **PLEASE NOTE - If you are at all UNWELL, please DO NOT visit the Tree, including dropping or taking. Please WEAR A MASK when visiting the Tree. If you visit the Tree and there is another visitor, please wait until they have left the tables. We are encouraging only ONE VISITOR at a time please. Please also WASH HANDS or use hand sanitiser before and after visiting the Tree (even better - bring hand sanitiser with you or wear gloves). Thank you for taking care of our Community . ~Don't forget to THOROUGHLY WASH all items taken from the Tree before consuming. We also encourage givers to please wash before leaving produce under the Tree~ . From little things...BIG things grow . #freecommunityproducetree #portarlingtonproducetree #portproducetree #growfree #bellarineswap #portarlingtonswap #portarlington #sustainability #cropswap #foodisfree #permaculturegeelong #homegrown #communitygarden #growandgive #bellarine #foodswap #produceswap #produceexchange #zerowaste #waronwaste #plasticfree #geelong #greatergeelong #community #growyourown #foodsharing #foodtrade #growyourownfood #gardening #givewhereyoulive See more

07.01.2022 Geelong Sustainability is hosting their virtual Green Drinks event on Wednesday 16 September at 6.30pm for the launch of the Sustainable House Day 2020 program.

05.01.2022 When visiting the Port Produce Tree, please park either on Brown St or just off Willis St (feel free to park next to our Grow Free Garden if you have quite a bit to drop off / heavy load). Please DO NOT DRIVE in or over the Brown Street car park, this car park is for foot traffic only, and for parking for the Allied Health Group! Thank you!

04.01.2022 Thank you to the givers of lots of goodies under the Tree today I took a cucumber and some tomatoes (coz the birds are eating all mine lol) to have for lunch. Beautiful! Also too a few pears - so many there! Two baskets full of them! Also zucchini, basil, lemon verbena and rosemary. And our 3rd sunflower looking so beautiful in full bloom Thank you to all the givers

03.01.2022 If you have been saving egg cartons and are looking for somewhere to rehome them, feel free to drop them off to the Tree and pop them in the netted shelving for others Tree friends to take! Or you are welcome to post in our Facebook group to offer from home, to giveaway or even swap! . The Port Produce Tree is located @ 28 BROWN STREET, PORTARLINGTON .... Please park either on Brown St or just off Willis St when visiting the Tree. Please DO NOT DRIVE in or over the car park - foot traffic only! See more

02.01.2022 Disappointed to see that our latest beautiful sunflower has been pulled out of the ground and taken. We thought it would go without saying, but please DO NOT pick the flowers in the garden. We grow them to make our space look pretty and for all who pass by to enjoy. This has happened a few times, so we thought we best put a post up in case some were unaware, and we are actually already in the process of getting a sign made up...but unfortunately too late to save our beloved sunflower from going walkabout Furthermore, anyone is welcome to pick some of the food that is grown, but please don't take all of one thing, which has also happened recently when a whole chive plant was cut (photo in comments). Take a little, and leave some for others please

02.01.2022 Love pottering in our Grow Free Community Garden A place where we grow food to share under the Tree Grown by the Community, for the Community And best of all - it is all free! Growing in our our Community Garden we currently have tomatoes galore, parsley a-plenty, chives, silverbeet, sunflowers and a gladiola. We also have mint and pumpkin growing elsewhere! And all this has been achieved by wonderful donations from the community, and of course our amazing volunteers ...who tend to the Gardens. We are so very thankful to all who have helped up Grow! . See more

01.01.2022 Lots under the Tree this morning! Heaps of rosemary, succulents, mint with roots, lemons and fresh parsley. Also lots of egg cartons have been dropped off! Thank you to the generous growers, gatherers and givers All welcome to gather this goodness, no need to give to take. .... GROW FREE Take what you need, Give what you can . Locally grown and free . Grown by the Community, for the Community . Grow less, share more . The Port Produce Tree is located @ 28 BROWN STREET, PORTARLINGTON . Please park either on Brown St or just off Willis St when visiting the Tree. Please DO NOT DRIVE in or over the car park - foot traffic only! . The Produce Tree will continue to be OPEN EVERY DAY to give and/or take fresh uncut homegrown produce. There are currently NO SWAPS happening. **PLEASE NOTE - If you are at all UNWELL, please DO NOT visit the Tree, including dropping or taking. Please WEAR A MASK when visiting the Tree. If you visit the Tree and there is another visitor, please wait until they have left the tables. We are encouraging only ONE VISITOR at a time please. Please also WASH HANDS or use hand sanitiser before and after visiting the Tree (even better - bring hand sanitiser with you or wear gloves). Thank you for taking care of our Community . ~Don't forget to THOROUGHLY WASH all items taken from the Tree before consuming. We also encourage givers to please wash before leaving produce under the Tree~ . From little things...BIG things grow . #freecommunityproducetree #portarlingtonproducetree #portproducetree #growfree #bellarineswap #portarlingtonswap #portarlington #sustainability #cropswap #foodisfree #permaculturegeelong #homegrown #communitygarden #growandgive #bellarine #foodswap #produceswap #produceexchange #zerowaste #waronwaste #plasticfree #geelong #greatergeelong #community #growyourown #foodsharing #foodtrade #growyourownfood #gardening #givewhereyoulive See more