The Growing Abundance Project

The Growing Abundance Project GA brings people together in the Mount Alexander Shire to create a viable local food system.
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Growing Abundance brings people together in the Mount Alexander Shire to create a viable local food system through:
• Harvesting backyard produce
• Sharing stories and skills about growing and preserving
food in our region
• Learning about what food security means in practice
• Encouraging a strong local food economy
• Promoting our local farmers
• Cooking and sharing healthy local food.

Super fresh and hyper-local pears stocked in the Castlemaine Safe Space pantry today!Picked in Campbells Creek at 10:30a...
09/06/2026

Super fresh and hyper-local pears stocked in the Castlemaine Safe Space pantry today!

Picked in Campbells Creek at 10:30am, in the pantry before 11am same day 🍐

Thank you to our generous site owner and Harvest vollie for sharing produce, time and energy, that we can pay forward in our communities 💚

Castlemaine Community House

At Sustainability Business Live today, attended a keynote session by the fabulous Ronni Kahn, Founder of OzHarvest , spe...
04/06/2026

At Sustainability Business Live today, attended a keynote session by the fabulous Ronni Kahn, Founder of OzHarvest , speaking about "Reimagining food in a hungry world".

What a grounding and inspiring origin story 💛

22 years later and she 💯 % walks the talk, and is totally compelling when she also talks the walk.

"Good food should not end up in landfill, it should fill bellies".

Thank you for the work you do, and inspiring more action for sharing abundance in our world.

Castlemaine Community House

Special thanks going out to Joel "Cool as a Cucumber" Meadows for his huge contributions to the Community Apple Juicing...
24/05/2026

Special thanks going out to Joel "Cool as a Cucumber" Meadows for his huge contributions to the Community Apple Juicing Day.

He appears to be fueled by a distillation of community spirit and home made apple cider vinegar!! Thanks Joel 🍎

24/05/2026

Another glorious, abundant, super sweet and fun Community Apple Juicing Day!

A flurry of activity of cutting, carrying, cleaning, mulching, spreading, pressing and bottling. With beautiful helpings of chatting, taste testing, kids n babes, and reminiscing about annual village community apple juicing gatherings in other home countries.

Enormous thanks going out to all who came to help, bringing their energy, enthusiasm, bottles and stories to share. What an incredible community we are ❤️

Castlemaine Community House The Orchard Keepers Grow Great Fruit

1st press done, about to do next one... Bring bottles!! We have soooo much juice, come get it!Castlemaine Town Hall unti...
24/05/2026

1st press done, about to do next one... Bring bottles!! We have soooo much juice, come get it!

Castlemaine Town Hall until 2pm

Castlemaine Community House

Today! Community Apple Juicing! See you here soon 🍎 Castlemaine Community House
23/05/2026

Today! Community Apple Juicing!

See you here soon 🍎

Castlemaine Community House

Hey folks, do you have any clean and cappable bottles to spare? The Community Apple Juicing Day is this Sunday, and we'r...
18/05/2026

Hey folks, do you have any clean and cappable bottles to spare?

The Community Apple Juicing Day is this Sunday, and we're putting the call out for clean bottles to decant the juice into.

If you have any to donate, pls drop them off to Castlemaine Community House by 3pm Friday.

Must be clean and with a lid/cap.

Thank you!

Stunning morning to be out under apples trees in Elphinstone! Thank you, Pam and Alan, for welcoming us out to harvest y...
12/05/2026

Stunning morning to be out under apples trees in Elphinstone!

Thank you, Pam and Alan, for welcoming us out to harvest your Golden Delicious, Pink Ladies and lovely lemons 🍎🍋 Plus, a bunch of pre-picked Packham Pears and quinces!

You'll find this beautiful produce in your Community Lunch, in the Castlemaine Community House Community Pantry, and at our upcoming Community Apple Juicing Day 💚

Carol and community lunch crew discussing alllll the options for incorporating these delish quince into next week's comm...
12/05/2026

Carol and community lunch crew discussing alllll the options for incorporating these delish quince into next week's community lunch...

Thank you community person for donating these fresh and bottled homegrown quince!!

Castlemaine Community House

Pruning Principles & Practice Workshop, the last in our series of Harvest Ready Workshops, is on this Saturday, and ther...
27/04/2026

Pruning Principles & Practice Workshop, the last in our series of Harvest Ready Workshops, is on this Saturday, and there are still a couple of places left!

Katie and Hugh of The Orchard Keepers and Grow Great Fruit are local experts and champions of community fruit growing knowledge. And they're running this workshop, so bring your questions, your queries, your curiosity about all things pruning of fruit trees.

Grab your spot under the trees asap: https://events.humanitix.com/harvest-ready-pruning-principles-and-practice

Saturday 2nd May, out at Harcourt.

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