We work with a range of stakeholders including communities, councils, statutory bodies and developers to improve Melbourne’s urban agriculture offerings.
We do this by offering a range of services and enabling projects that connect community, encourage sustainability and create opportunities for growing local food.
What we do
Support for community gardens
At the core of what we do is community: helping groups of people start and maintain urban agriculture projects in their local area.
Establishing a community garden can be an incredibly rewarding initiative for you and your community. There are also several steps and factors to consider, including permissions and permits for land use, garden design, governance, funding, and what and how to grow. Our aim is to support you to simplify this process and break down any barriers by sharing our practical expertise, knowledge and resources.
Advice and guidance
We provide free advice to individuals and groups who are looking to start community gardens, as well as community compost initiatives.
Take a look at the steps to starting a community garden and please feel free to get in touch with us at hello@3000acres.org with any questions or requests for support.
Auspicing
We understand that getting a new project off the group can be overwhelming, and becoming incorporated and finding insurance and volunteers can be challenging for small community groups. For this reason, we frequently partner with emerging groups and auspice them so that they can access grants, our management support and our insurance.
Consulting
Through our consulting services, we offer our experience and expertise to councils, developers and other organisations seeking advice on and delivery of urban agriculture and sustainability projects.
We can provide expertise and general guidance to help you design, build and manage garden projects, engage communities, develop urban agriculture policy, as well as establish local food growing and related sustainability programs.
Community garden facilitation
Planning sessions
Community engagement and consultation
Community co-design
Project management
Governance and skills training
Site works and construction
Activation events
Reactivation of neglected urban agriculture sites
Community education and storytelling
Creating, curating and promoting local food content for social media such as how-to videos, workshops and facebook live events
Backyard tours and workshops
Storytelling through videos, photography and social stories, sharing family recipes, local and cultural knowledge
Community composting initiatives
Project management
Community engagement
Builds and infrastructure development
Training and skills development
Urban agriculture policy
Policy documents and project plans
Mapping local food systems
Identification of potential urban agriculture sites
Community consultation
Research on urban agriculture issues
Development of public urban agriculture guidelines
Education & workshops
Workshop facilitation about urban food growing and sustainability
Education and events
Our team loves to spread knowledge and create awareness around urban food growing and sustainability. We aim to educate and inspire individuals and communities through facilitating a range of programs, events and initiatives throughout the year.
Please get in touch to learn more about any of the following or with your own ideas.
Productive backyard tours and workshops
Food swap facilitation
Skill building workshops
Urban food markets
Local food celebrations
Introduction to beekeeping
Pop-up gardens
Food processing and community harvesting
Olives to Oil Harvesting Events
Corporate Partnerships
By getting involved in 3000acres volunteering or working with us to facilitate an event or program, your company or organisation is directly supporting the work we do for communities, local food growing and sustainable urban environments.
Corporate volunteering
Provide your team with a unique, meaningful and hands-on volunteering experience with 3000acres Whether it be a one-off group day volunteering or ongoing internship program, members of your organisation or company will gain knowledge and skills they can take back to their workplace, homes and communities.
Tailored events & experiences
Think outside the box for your next staff engagement or team-building day. 3000acres offers engaging and highly tailored events and experiences centred around local food growing and sharing.
Food harvesting, cooking and feasting
Temporary/pop-up community gardens
Product promotions and fundraising
Skill building workshops
Productive backyard tours and workshops
Food swaps
Olives to Oil Harvest Festival
Olives to Oil Harvest Festival is 3000acres flagship event, with communities coming together from across Melbourne during the olive season to harvest and communally press olives into oil. Bring your team together to join us in the harvest, pressing and feasting of beautiful local produce.
Olives to Oil Harvest Festival is our annual event bringing people together from across Melbourne over one weekend to harvest olives and have them pressed communally into delicious, local olive oil.