Melbourne Food Hub
We are building the first metro food hub in Melbourne. Melbourne Food Hub’s mission is to create a replicable model of a self-sustaining Food Hub. It is envisioned to be a place where the community can meet to engage with food through learning, growing, making, eating and sourcing fresh local produce. As well as a place to support, incubate, and house local food enterprises and social businesses to encourage the co-creation of local food systems.
Currently, this is realised through a weekly Sunday farmers market, and the beginnings of our urban agriculture farm. Soon to come are a community/commercial kitchen and plans to re-imagine the distribution of food to our institutions.
We are a joint venture project between Sustain: The Australian Food Network and Melbourne Farmers Markets. Our major funder is the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation.
Our 7 goals
Melbourne Food Hub hosts a number of growing activities, that each addresses one or more of our seven core goals.
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Meet
Create opportunities for connection between community, local producers and food business startups. -
Learn
Establish and deliver training and employment opportunities in urban agriculture and food preparation. -
Grow
Establish onsite urban agriculture and food waste recovery that demonstrates sustainable and viable urban food production practices. -
Make
Establish an onsite kitchen to enable collective food preparation and the incubation of food businesses. -
Eat
Create a venue for locals and visitors to eat fresh delicious local produce. -
Source
Build existing and create new outlets for food distribution. -
Model
Establish a diverse and inclusive framework to be replicated in new food hubs throughout Victoria and around Australia.
For Sustain's summary of the project, please visit the Melbourne Food Hub project page.