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Grow Gather Give

Locality: Cooee, Tasmania, Australia

Phone: +61 408 439 145

Address: Fidler St 7320 Cooee, TAS, Australia

Website: http://www.growgathergive.org.au

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25.01.2022 We have been very remiss in our providing you with any recent gardener updates! We love our gardeners at the best of times, but we love them all the more with their taking it in their stride, the additional off site gardens recently. As we transition away from our home and base for the past 6 years, we have planted in several gardens in our community to ensure that we continue to provide fresh garden grown produce to our vulnerable community members with as little disruption ...as possible. Not all of our gardeners are pictured here but we will remedy that soon. Thank-you to our magnificent gardeners - you are all amazing! Our current gardeners, in no particular order :) Lisa, Michele, Davina, Robin, Paul, Sally, Peter, Lynne, Sheree, Ione, Aileen, Andrew, Mark, Gwen, Dee, Kylie, Troy, Amanda, Mal and Annie. Gosh, we hope nobody was forgotten! All solid gold <3 See more

24.01.2022 We had a couple of wonderful donations on Thursday The UTas rural clinical students donated another load of their lovely compost for our gardens. Thankyou Alice, for delivering the large bag of black gold to us Thankyou also to the two donations of lemons from Kaylene and from the neighbour of Ione #utasruralclinicalstudents #utas #growgathergive #compost #communityhelpingcommunity #foodaccess

23.01.2022 Wow, Sally! Your rhubarb is so tall and amazing Sally’s garden is one of our Grow Gather Give Farm it Forward gardens and the gardeners are growing some pretty yummy produce there! #growgathergive #farmitforward #freshisbest #foodaccess #greenandnutritioushampers

20.01.2022 We had a donation of a straw bale for one of our Farm it Forward gardens today. Thank-you so much to Ken Lohrey for the donation and to Chandler Lohrey for delivering it to us at very short notice. :) #growgathergive #farmitforward #kinddonations #communityhelpingcommunity #weloveyourdonations

19.01.2022 We have had several enquiries and visits from people, who were wondering if the Food Hub has reopened at the farm. The school have requested that it remain closed indefinitely, but if customers would like a food hamper put together for collection at the BHS farm carpark, we are more than happy to do that. We are operating Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and hampers are generally collected after 11.30AM on those days (but before 1PM). If you would like to arrange for a hamper, please contact us via Facebook PM, call/text or email.

19.01.2022 Our friends at BAKE bakery are hiring :)

18.01.2022 Oh Reggie, we do love you so

14.01.2022 All the wonderful greens freshly harvested from our gardens and straight into today’s food hampers #freshisbest #growyourown #foodaccess #freshfromthegarden #growgathergive #ourgardenersaresoclever

13.01.2022 Part of the wonderful donation that we received from Saputo Dairy Australia last week, was a massive block of cheese. We tried cutting the cheese with a knife with no luck, and then Sally and Peter tried to slice it with a length of thin wire. Again, no luck! So, Sally had a brainwave and called Lorenzens Butchery in Upper Burnie to see if they could assist. Success!! Thankyou to Lorenzens Butchery for saving the day! The smaller blocks of cheese have been going into the hampers this week #lorenzensbutcheryburnie #growgathergive #communityhelpingcommunity #saputodairyaustralia #withalittlehelpfromourftiends

12.01.2022 Do you ever feel when you walk in a garden and feel the earth beneath your feet, the breeze sighing in the treetops and against your skin and that fresh smell of green after rain that anything is possible? . . Let me know how you feel when you take a walk in a garden or park in the comments . .... . . . #gardenlife #flowersmakemesmile #charitylife #growgathergive #quotestoliveby #communitysupport See more

12.01.2022 We had two fantastic donations made to us this morning Lane’s IGA in Penguin donated several frozen and pantry items and Wivenhoe IGA donated several packets of frozen meat. Thankyou so much for your wonderful generosity! Our community will be very happy this week with the additions to their hampers. #lanesigapenguin #lanesiga #wivenhoeiga #growgathergive #foodaccess #communityhelpingcommunity

12.01.2022 Our hampers that went out into the community this morning #growgathergive #healthyeating #occasionaltreat #grownonthefarm #foodaccess

10.01.2022 We received a box of imperfect gingerbread and chocolate people from Wynyard IGA today, to go into our hampers this week. They look pretty delicious and perfect to us! Thank-you Jason and the West End IGA staff for your ongoing support and thank-you Dallas International for the gingerbread. :) #westendsupermarket #dallasinternationalptyltd #growgathergive #rescuedfood #treatsareokinmoderation

10.01.2022 We would like to welcome Oliver’s Bakery to town and wish them all the best in their new home in Burnie. Avril and her wonderful team at Oliver’s are donating their beautiful bread products to us once a week Thankyou so much for the abundance that we received for our food hampers today I would also like to thank Aleshia and her staff for the years that Golden Grain Bakery donated to us and catered for our special events at the farm. We wish you all the best for the future #weloveourcommunity #welcometotown #oliversbakery #growgathergive #beautifulfreshbread #thankyouforyoursupport

08.01.2022 We have had some wonderful donations this week! Thankyou Michele for your ongoing donations of speckled romaine lettuce; Thankyou Bruce for the tomato seedlings and large donation of parsley! Thankyou Judy for the wonderful donation of lemons Thankyou Jude for your donations of pumpkin and zucchini seedlings And Thankyou Leanne for your milk donation we really appreciate all of these wonderful donations x #donationsaregreatlyappreciated #growyourown #growgathergive #foodaccess

07.01.2022 We had a visit from this beautiful family yesterday Cathy and her family live at Lorinna and each year, for the past couple of years, the Lorinna community has held a fundraiser for our organisation. Cathy, Thea, Sophie and Angie delivered a $200 donation raised by their wonderful community - this money was gratefully accepted and will be a great help for our organisation! Thankyou very much, everyone at Lorinna #communitydonation #growgathergive #communitykindness #yourdonationsareagreathelp #helpustohelpothers #foodaccess #growyourown

06.01.2022 Another wonderful thing that happened yesterday, was the collection of the second instalment of the Saputo Dairy Australia donation. Thankyou so much Rebecca, Kelli and the team at Saputo, for such a large and wonderful donation that will be helping so many vulnerable people in our community. #saputodairyaustralia #growgathergive #weloveyourdonations #foodaccess #communityhelpingcommunity #kindness

03.01.2022 Grow Gather Give set to Grow! After doing great work in cooperation with Burnie High School at the School farm, Grow Gather Give is looking for its own home. Grow Gather Give is a new charity continuing the work started by Produce to the People - growing seasonal produce, and gathering donated produce and food from the community, to share cost-free with vulnerable people in our community.... Michelle Williamson, the Coordinator of GGG, said: "The organisation Produce to the People was deregistered in September 2019 and Grow Gather Give Inc was created in April 2020, with a new board and new ideas and goals around what we do and what we provide. We are wholly volunteer run with 40+ volunteers pre-COVID and currently about 30 active volunteers, mostly gardeners and operations/delivery. We are thrilled to have played such a big role in getting the Burnie High School farm and farm gardens to the vibrant and productive state that it is currently at, working alongside the Burnie High School staff and students to achieve that. With the recent expansion of the Ag Studies program there have been more students working on the school farm which is fantastic to see. We feel this is the right time for us to leave the farm and find a site of our own, where we can expand and do lots of new community projects. Our immediate goal now is to find a secure site that is local to the Burnie, Somerset, Wynyard area, that is easily accessible for our volunteers and the community. We wish to create a large and productive vegetable garden that we can harvest to stock our Harvested and Healthy Community Pantry, which will provide fresh food access for the vulnerable (and others) in our community. If you are able to help us to achieve our goal of a flourishing productive garden managed and maintained by a community of like-minded volunteers, please do not hesitate to contact us via our website (www.growgathergive.org.au) , by email ([email protected]) or by phone 0408 439 145 See more

03.01.2022 Trying to save seed when we’re not there to catch it #growgathergive #seedsavers #growyourown

01.01.2022 We had another two donations from Wivenhoe IGA and Lane’s IGA in Penguin, this week Thankyou so much for the ongoing donations which help so much with the hampers for our community #lanesigapenguin #wivenhoeiga #growgathergive #yourdonationshelpsomany #burniecommunityrocks #loveourlocalbusinesses

01.01.2022 We were very spoilt today! We received a wonderful donation of pantry items, garden tools, seeds and hose fittings and a few pieces of furniture from Nicola and Barry Bingham, who are moving interstate Thankyou so much for your continued support and generous donations of your excess produce over recent years. We wish you all the best for the next stage of your life adventure (but we do hope to see you back on Tassie soil once again in the future ) Happy travels and happy gardening Nicola and Barry x #weloveourcommunity #friendsofgrowgathergive #bonvoyage #growgathergive #foodaccess