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Community Food Forum
As part of the 2024 Urban Agriculture Month we invited locals to join us in planning a Community Food Forum which aimed to: Celebrate local urban agriculture Offer inspiration from local and broader projects Strengthen relationships between local groups, project and networks Create new links, ideas, connections and initiatives It was heart-warming to see just how alive urban agriculture is...
Growing food at home can reduce causes of climate change
The Community Plate is running a series of Grow Some Food workshops aimed to improve our community’s ability to grow some food at home. Running across both the Frankston and Mornington Peninsula regions, these workshops aim to benefit our health and the health of our earth and address the barriers people face to growing food. Gardening can slow future global...
Our community want their plate full of local, healthy and abundant food
The Community Plate (TCP) is a collective of local organisations, groups and individuals working together to realise our newly announced Community Aspiration, that ‘we are all connected to food that is local, healthy and abundant.’ TCP has dedicated a large amount of time to develop this Community Aspiration. Over an 18 month period TCP held in depth discussions with a...
Surplus to Market – Scoping Project
We invited all local producers selling fresh or freshly-made food and drinks across the Frankston and Mornington Peninsula region to join us in a discussion about food surplus. This project aimed to: Learn from local producers about the experiences and challenges of food surplus Explore new distribution/sales avenues for food surplus Provide benefits for producers and our community by increasing...
The Community Plate Action Group
The Community Plate Action Group has officially launched First meeting in mid 2021, a group of like minded locals came together to brainstorm how we could start working collectively to achieve our aspiration that ‘we are all connected to food that is local, healthy and abundant’. A couple of planning meeting have been held from then until now and the...
The Local Food Map
We are thrilled to announce the launch of an exciting new initiative from The Community Plate: The Local Food Map! Imagine this… An online map at your fingertips showcasing the hidden gems and local food spots nestled within the heart of our local region. Here’s a sneak peek of what you can find on the map: • Farm Gates •...