Tiny Trowel

Tiny Trowel Freely collaborating and consulting with organizations around food security innovation, and/or with a vision to create communities around organic food sources.

It's a hobby. Tiny Trowel promotes the simple concept that food security can be provided to you and your family with one tiny trowel. Tiny Trowel seeks to engage the wider community to supply fresh fruit and veggies to NFP food relief providers and empower people to develop sustainable approaches using permaculture principals. Created in 2016, Tiny Trowel collaborates with any community working to

reduce food insecurity. We align programs with your vision to meet the need of people passing through a season of crisis. We engage "The Crowd" or the wider community in alleviating hunger, and empowering all stakeholders with horticulture, permaculture and self sustainability skills. Crowd Sourcing with a difference. :-)
Tiny Trowel aims to harness the power and generosity of the wider community - 'The Crowd' - through:
1. Crowd Harvests - providing avenues through which home produce gardeners might donate fresh fruit, herbs and vegetables to food relief providers
2. Crowd Sharing- developing faith community projects to cultivate their land, enriching their food relief programs
3. Crowd Farming - inviting the community to donate food plants to farm public land
4. Crowd Talks - talks to community members to explore ways to raise their own home produce gardens

Excess home produce can go to NFPs helping Melbournians any day in business hours:
ASRC Foodbank
Level 1,
214 - 218 Nicholson St
Footscray VIC 3011
Monday to Friday
10.00 am - 5.00 pm. https://www.asrc.org.au/
ASRC are happy to accept most home grown produce. Food seeds are welcomed! ASRC Dandenong
179 Lonsdale Street,
Dandenong VIC 3175. Monday to Thursday
10am – 3pm. DIVRS & Darebin Fruit Squad
Urban Food Program
285 High Street
Preston 3072
Monday to Friday
9.30am - 3.00pm
http://www.divrs.org.au/
http://www.darebinfruitsquad.org/

Salvation Army,
Project 614
69 Bourke St,
Melbourne VIC 3000
Monday to Friday
8:00 am - 4:30 pm. http://www.salvationarmy.org.au/melbourne614

STREAT
66 Cromwell Street,
Collingwood, VIC 3066
Monday to Sunday
8.00am - 3.00pm
www.streat.com.au

The Green Cafe
5 St. Columbs Street
Hawthorn VIC 3122
Monday to Sunday
8.00am - 3.00pm. http://www.stcolumbs.org.au/Cafe

Rowville Community Kitchen
Rowville Community Centre
40 Fulham Road,
Rowville VIC 3178
Monday to Friday
10.00am - 3.00pm
http://rowvillecommunitykitchen.com.au/

Sing, dance, make merry!!!
12/09/2026

Sing, dance, make merry!!!

Another iteration on Food Security - and Unsupermarket :-) Get involved in a place close to you and support a lower coas...
23/07/2026

Another iteration on Food Security - and Unsupermarket :-) Get involved in a place close to you and support a lower coast approach to grocery shopping.

Box Divvy connects your community with farmers and food producers to provide market-fresh, locally and Australian-grown, seasonal fruit, vegetables and groceries helping you cook and eat better for less.

Another food rescue iteration has entered the scene in a phone app. check it out:
22/07/2026

Another food rescue iteration has entered the scene in a phone app. check it out:

Too Good To Go app is the world's largest surplus food marketplace. Download now and enjoy good food at 1/2 price or less, help the environment and reduce food waste.

Back yard farming :-)
20/07/2025

Back yard farming :-)

Regenerative, community-led urban farming in Merri-bek.    About Us Growing Farmers Inc. is a community project based in Merri-bek. Our aim is to develop regenerative farming capacity in urban communities and to support and enable a new generation of aspiring urban farmers. Learn More Backyard Far...

Wouldn't it be lovely if every church in Australia set aside some space for a 'Food Swap'! :-)
07/06/2025

Wouldn't it be lovely if every church in Australia set aside some space for a 'Food Swap'! :-)

This is "20250601 - NHCC - Food Swap v02 - Final" by NewHope Baptist Church on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

It's time! time to start trapping Queensland FruitFly. Make your own, or pick up a trap from a local store - but get the...
24/07/2024

It's time! time to start trapping Queensland FruitFly. Make your own, or pick up a trap from a local store - but get them out now to reduce numbers significantly:

Queensland fruit fly can easily be managed in your garden, see all the things you can do in your garden to protect your harvest.

Great support for home growers and those wanting to get started:
20/07/2024

Great support for home growers and those wanting to get started:

Join our seasonal grow-alongs — curated by master gardener Paul West plus top Aussie chefs – & learn to grow & cook healthy, delicious, organic food at home.

15/07/2024

Plant food everywhere to mitigate the societal cost of living crisis. Plant food and share with the neighbours, family and friends. We have the power within our hands that no one should go hungry. Care for yours with organic home grown produce.

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Box Hill South, VIC

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0401814679

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