Food Strategy

The Community Plate is a proud recipient of VicHealth’s Food First Partnership funding. With the support of this partnership, the Community Plate has developed a food strategy that promotes local food production, creates supportive food business solutions, and increases access and affordability so ‘we are all connected to food that is local, nourishing, and abundant’.

The Community Plate’s Food Strategy will activate a number of actions that work together across the local food system to improve food literacy, access and affordability. The 3 main branches of the Strategy include:

• Community Food Innovation – to create sustainable, social and supportive food business solutions for enterprises such as cooking hubs, food markets, cooperatives, and community-grown food outlets.
• Urban Agriculture in Schools – strengthening food growing projects across primary and secondary schools, such as school gardens, farms and food forests.
• Urban Agriculture in Community – strengthening food growing and sharing across our neighbourhoods, such as fruit rescue boxes and food surplus stands, seed libraries, growing circles, backyard farming and community growing spaces.