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  • Our Community »  Grow it Local

    Grow it localHi Jess Miller

    Grow it Local is a celebration of backyard, balcony, community and window-sill farmers. The concept was first brought to life in Bondi Beach during March, 2012 as an idea unite local growers & promote urban farming in a fun, social and super tasty way.

    Problem

    How to create resilient hyper local networks of growers.

    Hope

    Resilience.

    Proud

    My salad webber garden.

    Die Happy

    Cheese

    Involved

    Put your patch on the map www.growitlocal.com.au

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    Crowd Farming at TEDxSydney

    Unprecedented co-operation between charities, organisations, companies, local growers and normal everyday people in action at TEDxSydney 2013, showing just what can be achieved when a community comes together and work towards a common goal.
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    Grow it Local

    There is a noticeable shift towards sustainable food production as part of a local real food movement. Jess Miller from Grow it Local talks about her campaign that encourages people to connect with their local community and become urban farmers.
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    Grow It Local: The Case Study

    'What if we got all these balcony, backyard, community and windowsill gardeners and help them share a little bit of what they know, and what they grow?' Grow It Local shows us that the only thing better than growing your own food...is eating it.
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