Bass Coast South Gippsland Food System Alliance

22/10/2026

🥕⚡ The Mobile Grocer is officially on the road! ⚡🍎
Last week we launched The Mobile Grocer at Corinella & District Community Centre and Bass Valley Community Group Inc, and what a start! It was wonderful to connect with locals over fresh, nutritious food and great conversations.

Championed by Grow Lightly and supported by VicHealth The Mobile Grocer is a community-owned grocery van bringing affordable fresh fruit and veg to towns where it can be hard to come by.

📍 Find us every Thursday during Term 4 (until 17 December):
🕤 Corinella & District Community Centre: 9:30–11:30am
🕧 Bass Valley Community Group: 12:30–2pm

🌱 Grow your own? We’d love to hear from local gardeners and small farmers interested in supplying fresh produce to The Mobile Grocer. Get in touch via our website to learn more! https://www.foodsystem.org.au/

19/10/2026

19/10/2026

The Commons Market
Local for Locals
Now OPEN from 2pm - 4pm.
Every Tuesday

Howard Street, Leongatha

See you in the Shed!

19/10/2026

Whether you're a complete gardening beginner, want to refresh your knowledge, or are just curious if Permaculture is for you, this weekend course presented by Piggery Road Permaculture will leave you inspired and full of new ideas for your own plot. It's booking up fast so secure your place now!
✨ What’s included:
Hands-on workshops: hot composting, no-dig gardening, seed saving
Garden design component
Lunch provided
Visit to Buckley Park Community Farm
📅 When: Two Saturdays in November
📍 Where: Fish Creek Hall
This Learn Local course is supported by the Victorian Government.
🎟️ Bookings & info: https://www.socialplanet.com.au/activity/view?id=52779
Grow Lightly
Bass Coast South Gippsland Food System Alliance
Buckley Park Community Farm
Fish Creek Community Composter

16/10/2026

Composting queen Carolyn Rowson is back! 👑🌱 Join us for another workshop in , kindly hosted by The Cape Community Farm .
Bookings and info at the link below👇👇https://www.socialplanet.com.au/activity/view?id=56497

05/10/2026

When corporate giants "simplify," local communities lose 🚜

Recent reports from ABC News highlight how supermarket centralisation is cutting ties with small-scale Australian producers in favor of mass corporate distribution hubs. When giant chains pull the plug on local growers, family farms suffer, food travels thousands of unnecessary kilometres, and regional food security takes a massive hit.

Here in Bass Coast and South Gippsland, we're building a different model.

🌱 Supporting local growers keeping them solvent and thriving
🚚 Shortening supply chains to slash the distance food travels
🥕 Ensuring our community has direct access to fresh, healthy, local produce

We don't have to rely solely on the duopoly.

Every dollar you spend at a local farm gate, farmers' market, or independent local grocer is a vote for community resilience over corporate profits. 💚

Learn how the Bass Coast South Gippsland Food System Alliance is working to secure our regional food future 👉 https://www.foodsystem.org.au/



https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-05/coles-woolworths-supply-chain-simplify-effect-on-producers/107224736?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

A small-scale banana farmer who has had his agreement with Coles ended due to the supermarket giant simplifying its supply chain says the move signals the end of small-scale farms across the country.

05/10/2026

Congratulations Phillip Island Village School on the progress of your veggie gardens 💚💚

22/09/2026

launch is happening soon! Bass Coast South Gippsland Food System Alliance is holding a FREE community engagement session this THURSDAY, Sep 24th, at the Corinella Community House 11:30am- 1:30pm. If you'd like to learn about this initiative, about the funding from VicHealth program and how and where you can access fresh produce locally, please come along to this free session.

12/09/2026

🩲 Ever fancied burying your un**es in the garden for science? Turns out the Swiss already tried it — about 1,000 citizen scientists across Switzerland buried plain cotton underpants (plus teabags, for good measure) in gardens, farms, lawns and paddocks to see how fast the soil would eat them.

Two months later, the results were in: un**es buried in home gardens had rotted away the fastest (58%!), while lawns were the slowest at just 40%. Turns out it wasn't fancy lab chemistry that predicted the decomposition best — it was simply how the land was being used.

It's a brilliantly simple (and slightly cheeky) way of showing something we talk about a lot through Healthy Soils Healthy People: soil isn't just dirt, it's alive. The more biological activity going on underground, the faster things break down, and the more resilient and fertile that soil becomes.

Curious what your own garden soil might get up to with a buried pair of un**es? Have a read of the full study, then come check out what we're doing locally through the Healthy Soils Healthy People project 👇
https://www.foodsystem.org.au/healthysoilshealthypeople

27/08/2026

Our Supermarket duopoly have both reported over a billion dollars in net profit each. Meanwhile local small-to-medium vegetable farmers in the South Gippsland and Bass Coast Shires (those few who are left) are struggling to cover basic input costs and they have no Ooshies! This contrast highlights a fundamentally broken national food distribution model.

Australia's extreme supermarket centralisation leaves regional communities like ours vulnerable to supply chain disruptions and leaves local growers with few route-to-market alternatives.

This why Our Community Needs a New Food System! It’s what the Bass Coast South Gippsland Food System Alliance is working towards. A local food system that provides fair prices for growers, food transparency for eaters and rebuilds resilient local supply chains.

Want to know more? Connect with the Bass Coast South Gippsland Food System Alliance.
www.foodsystem.org