Environment and Food Security
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VDSA Veggie Garden 2023 Report
Anne Rutherford This year, a small group of 4-5 dedicated volunteers, with a little help from our friends, has worked in the veggie garden and delivered organic veggies on a weekly basis to Jarjum College in Redfern. Jarjum is a school for urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children who are not participating or coping…
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Garden program 2022 report
By Anne Rutherford 2022 has been a year of change and refocus for the orto team. In the first half of the year we supplied weekly veggies to a new charity, Our Big Kitchen, that provides over 120,000 meals a people in need of food support, including asylum seekers, Indigenous people and the homeless. Over…
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Veggie Garden Report 2021 report
Vittoria Pasquini on behalf of the Coordinator Marisa KatisOur beautiful organic vegetable garden blossomed in 2021 among many difficulties (Covid lockdown the main one), many thanks to Ann Game’s continuous, generous work and expertise, to Marisa Katis for general coordination, to Jill Romuld for account keeping and to our volunteers working in the garden individually…
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Garden report 2021
During the pandemic volunteers were encouraged to do planting and routine maintenance work in pairsor small groups.At the beginning of the year we redesigned the garden to allow for plant rotation and including bee –attracting plants.Initially, despite the pandemic, we were able to deliver our vegetables weekly to the RedfernCommunity Centre and Jarjum College when…
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GROWING VEGETABLES FOR THE DISADVANTAGED – 2019 REPORT
This year we have been growing a range of vegetables. We make regular donations of vegetables to refugees and asylum seekers. We also deliver weekly two or more large bags of vegetables to The Redfern Community Centre. This centre is frequented predominantly by indigenous locals. Some vegetables are used in the preparation of meals on…
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GROWING FOOD FOR THE DISADVANTAGED – JUNE UPDATE
The VDSA vegetable garden team recently started donating vegetables to St.Canice’s, Elizabeth Bay, which has a long history of looking after the needy, including many refugees. We deliver directly to the person who organises and cooks lunches on the 3rd and 4th Mondays of the month and she is most grateful for our fresh, organic…
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GROWING FOOD FOR THE DISADVANTAGED – 2017 REPORT
During 2017 our group continued to grow organic vegetables. These were given to refugees and asylum seekers living in the community and experiencing poverty and misfortune. Fresh vegetables are also delivered weekly to two emergency centres which house some indigenous women and refugees. Some volunteers have prepared pesto and salsa verde made from garden produce.…
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Diego Bonetto visits our Charity Garden in Bronte
On Tuesday 15, November Diego Bonetto took our Volunteers and Friends of the VDS Association on a Wild Food Workshop tour of the Bronte gully. Diego is an Italian artist, naturalist and cultural worker. He regularly presents at conferences and symposiums on the ecological and cultural value of botanical species. On this particular Tuesday…
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Growing Food for the Disadvantaged – 2015 Report
2015 Annual Report  This year Raised wooden boxes were constructed around our vegetable beds. This project was funded by donations and built by a member of the Association. A watering system was installed. A friend of the Association who is a member of Rotary e-club applied to Rotary for a donation of $600.00 to enable…
