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HARVESTING CARROTS, pumpkins, sweet potatoes, sunflowers and melons is the way three Northern Rivers not-for-profit organisations and a socially conscious business are tackling poverty in the area.
The social enterprise has seen The Farm Byron Bay join forces with Liberation Larder, in conjunction with The S.H.I.F.T. Project Byron and the Byron Bay Herb Nursery, to grow the staples to provide 550 meals a week and food parcels to help people in need.
Each of the not-for-profit organisations plays its own vital part in the project, including providing the manpower to keep the social enterprise ticking along, giving training and work opportunities to women in need and people with disabilities.
The aim of Liberation Larder, which started in 2009, has been to rescue good food that would otherwise end up in landfill and make sure this food reaches people who need it, now.
Ewingdale’s The Farm initially provided a quarter acre of land to Liberation Larder in October to grow the crops it needed and, due to the success of their first harvests, that expanded to half an acre.
Liberation Larder work the soil, planting the seeds, tending to the crops, and harvesting them.
This perfect example of Community Spirit needs to be a subject at school imagine.
Brings to mind John Lennon “Love is all you need. For all. A momentary lapse of reason.
Anyway all good on the river tonight haven’t been fishing lately too hot and the tides are wrong at the mo. Thinking of doing a blog of early Byron circa 1949
Ciao for now