What this all about?
Surrounding us is a world of food. Our lives and our culture are in many ways defined by what we eat and how we share this with our loved ones and community. However, in a world that is increasingly becoming defined by supermarkets, shopping centres and fast food, many urban dwellers have been missing out on food being a means for connection. Connection with the place they are in and connection with their community.
What Falling Fruit Bendigo stands for is sharing with those unsatisfied with the current food culture (particularly students) a means of re-establishing an ancient practice called- food foraging or urban gleaning. More than that we aim to show you a way to begin to find ways to become more self-sufficient and rely less on the current food system.
This website has a number of tools that you can use. Firstly, the MAP. This will show you visually where and what kinds of resources are available in the Bendigo. Then this site also acts as a portal to information that will connect you to a number of local and international groups that are all apart of a truly global movement toward re-establishing the connection between people, environment and food. Finally we have a section that will bring together seasonal recipes that will help you to make use of the fruit you find (coming in 2012)!
Please feel free to add to the google map that is provided- we are looking for fruit trees, herbs, wild foods (edible weeds).
Below are some videos that will introduce you to aspects of the Urban Food Movement- The first is a gem with a local Gleaner who has made the first video that shows what an abundance of fruit trees there are out there lining our streets! KEEP an eye out for the CAROB TREE!
What Falling Fruit Bendigo stands for is sharing with those unsatisfied with the current food culture (particularly students) a means of re-establishing an ancient practice called- food foraging or urban gleaning. More than that we aim to show you a way to begin to find ways to become more self-sufficient and rely less on the current food system.
This website has a number of tools that you can use. Firstly, the MAP. This will show you visually where and what kinds of resources are available in the Bendigo. Then this site also acts as a portal to information that will connect you to a number of local and international groups that are all apart of a truly global movement toward re-establishing the connection between people, environment and food. Finally we have a section that will bring together seasonal recipes that will help you to make use of the fruit you find (coming in 2012)!
Please feel free to add to the google map that is provided- we are looking for fruit trees, herbs, wild foods (edible weeds).
Below are some videos that will introduce you to aspects of the Urban Food Movement- The first is a gem with a local Gleaner who has made the first video that shows what an abundance of fruit trees there are out there lining our streets! KEEP an eye out for the CAROB TREE!