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Spring Gathering

Save the date: Tuesday 30 November, 4 - 6 pm.

Join others in the community garden at Maldon Neighbourhood Centre to swap and share harvest with each other, with some of the bounty going to the community lunch to contribute to the next shared meal. Part of the FoodLinks project (see below).

Email or phone 54752093 if you're interested. Full details out soon!

Food Links project

Food Links is a project initiated by Castlemaine Community House, Maldon Neighbourhood Centre and Newstead Community Garden to bolster community connections and gardens across our Shire. The project has received $10,000 of funding from the Foundation for Regional and Rural Renewal (FRRR).

The main aim of Food Links is to strengthen local food security through community collaboration and education, connecting people with existing community gardens. The project seeks to:

improve food growing skills in a changing climate
increase produce supply for community food programs
strengthen links between our community gardens and community food programs
increase active involvement in community garden care.

Food Links has two aspects. The first is to support garden leaders and volunteers at a local community garden level, and then to work with them to identify local needs and priorities for each community garden (eg. education, wider community engagement, identifying local food needs, etc).

The second will be to link gardens with one another, identify shared needs and opportunities, connect food needs to gardens (eg community lunches, food banks, food relief schemes) and increase awareness of community gardens across the region.

Something you'd like to be part of? Call 54752093 or email.

Above: volunteers at Castlemaine Community House Garden; Newstead Community Garden.

Community lunch

A two-course meal and friendly conversation for only $5 donation.
Wednesdays 12 noon during school terms.
Maldon Community Centre, Francis St Maldon

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