Sustainable and climate-friendly food

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A happy group of participants gathered at the Murwillumbah Community Garden to discuss topics such as growing your own food, composting, avoiding food waste, food networks and food security.

We also enjoyed an afternoon tea with home baked goodies using locally grown produce, as well as learning from Sue at the Community Garden on how to do worm farming at home.

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Here's some of the other topics we discussed:

• Front fence free food share https://www.facebook.com/groups/465197087823803 (Michael)
• Networking with like-minded people to get food to those in need (Rob)
• Eat a carbon friendly diet, every day, the equivalent of 2 suburbs are cleared for meat grazing (Gerrard)
• Lowering impact on environment from sustainable gardening (Karen)
• Tips on composting (Lee)
• Veggie garden and how to get started
• Getting good soil from scratch
• Growing food for me, attracting birds and insects (Michaela)
• Library seed bank
• Success tips for growing fruit (Sarah)
• Weed maintenance
• Getting school children engaged in gardening, sustainability etc. (Andrew)

The Climate Ready Tweed project completed in 2023, revealed that members of our community would like to grow their own food, throw away less food and eat less red meat as important climate actions. The recent Imagine 2484 project also showed strong community preferences for increasing food security and local production as key elements for a regenerative future that is resilient and adaptive to future climate change impacts.