Fawkner Food Bowls
Urban Farm
Our Urban Farm
Fawkner Food Bowls Urban Farm uses a market garden layout to grow seasonal produce for the local community.
We use sustainable and regenerative practices such as generating our own composts, using locally acquired materials for mulching, and encouraging healthy populations of beneficial invertebrates and microorganisms to create healthy soil and a healthy garden.
We are continuously working to develop an enjoyable growing and educational space for our crops, wildlife, and community.
Seed Library
We grow predominantly open pollinated crops which means we can let selected plants flower, be pollinated by our resident insects, the wind, or us, and we can collect any resultant seed.
Our local seed library is used in the FFB garden, to share with volunteers, and for trade at our monthly Feast and Swap. In the near future it will be available for purchase online through Fawkner Commons.
Produce
We grow a mixture of seasonal herbs and vegetables which is sold to locals through our Fawkner Commons store, distributed amongst our volunteers, and contributed for food relief.
Running the garden as a not for profit community group allows us to grow experimental and ethnically relevant crops. Some of these include bottle gourd, okra, mizuna, radicchio, Lebanese zucchini, pak choi, and kang kong; as well as common staples such as onions, potatoes, garlic, leek, celery, kale, silverbeet, lettuce, parsley, dill, coriander, rhubarb; and seasonally, pumpkin, cucumber, tomatoes, capsicum, eggplant, tomatillo, and a range of others.
We are currently working on setting up infrastructure to allow us to grow tropical crops such as taro, turmeric, ginger, and tropical greens.
