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Darwin ICC Regional CDEP Network Workshop Best practice and new opportunities - Local food gardens, food systems and horticulture. Workshop Aims. To link/support CDEP food garden/hort projects - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Darwin ICC Regional CDEP Network
Workshop
Best practice and new opportunities - Local food
gardens, food systems and horticulture
Workshop Aims• To link/support CDEP food garden/hort projects• To enable CDEP people & other key stakeholders to
share info, experiences, ideas: to help build better outcomes
• New conversations, contacts & partnerships• Learn about & access useful resources• Help identify & address challenges & opportunities• Have your say! what practical & strategic actions
might we try to carry forward • Have a good time…
Approach to the WorkshopDAY 1: What’s underway: CDEP projects, CDEP/Industry
Food garden/horticulture project presentations, Q&A’s ‘Past projects, future directions’ industry panel discussion, Q&A’s New tools & strategies to build participation, Q&A’s
DAY 2: Effective project planning & partnerships Food security – issues and connections, Q&A’s Training issues & options, Q&A’s Effective project planning: strategies, models, funding… Q&A’sGarden to plate, Stories, breakout group discussions Feedback & wrap up
PLUS - Write it on the Wall ‘Key Topics: Ideas & Suggestions’ - The ‘Steam Box’
Write it on the Wall – Key Topics: Your ideas, suggestions, questions
• Your gardens: type, size, what grown, & why? • Building better participation & ownership – how? • Technical information – gaps, needs, tips?• New partnership ideas & opportunities • Bread & butter advice for new gardens & gardeners• Project & business planning for sustainable outcomes• Food stores & other local market ideas• Garden to plate – how to promote healthy food• Strategic local developments eg. Working Futures• CDEP Community D’Ment Officers & Mentors: new roles • OTHER topics to add?
Not a new idea… bush foods are great foods…
BUT • Possible loss of access to lands & traditional food stocks• Dietary & cultural changes• Impacts on food choicesMEANS NEW APPROACHES can help
‘FUSION GARDENS’ – bush foods, fruit and veggies….fishing, chickens? And what else?!!
EAT LOCAL – HUNT, GATHER & GROW LOCAL …Many ways to access & produce more fresh food &
use local knowledge & resources
Different types of food gardens & farms all have an important role to
play – different roles, objectives, time frames, investment, & criteria for success. CDEP a key player to build skills & participation, to help
create pathways to better livelihoods, enterprise & employment
Commercial farms - partnerships &/or
leases on Aboriginal owned land.
CDEP led ‘market’ garden & nursery training projects &
enterprises Homeland Gardens
– extended family activities
School Gardens – teaching &
learning, health & nutrition
Life Skills & Demonstration
Gardens – Community Programs
Home gardens – in communities &
towns
Landscaping & Landcare - ‘fusion’
plantings, food bearing plants
RIG Network
Local food projects - strategic context
• AMSANT Fresh Food Summit outcomes• Chronic disease and preventative health programs• NT Govt. new Agribusiness Strategy• Working Futures, Growth Town’s – Local Imp Plans• Indigenous Community Water Facilitator Network• COAG Food Security Strategy & food stores reform• CW Indigenous Economic D’Ment Strategy, 2010-18• RIG Network & NTHA ‘SCOPE’ project
FOOD GARDENS & HORTICULTURE...food for thought….
WHY? CDEP PROVIDERS: Engagement, Participation, Community Development, Training, Work Experience, Life skills, Jobs, Pathways to new training choices…
WHY?
PARTICIPANT GOALS
Augment income
Provide for family
Provide for community
Skills, jobs, interest, pleasure
Cottage Industry
Sole trader
Small business
Social Enterprise
Commercial business
Who is the market?- Self & family
- Neighbours & friends- Community services
- Local food stores- Local produce markets
- Regional & national
How will produce be used?- Self & family provisioning
- Share with community- Trade/barter
- Sell informally- Sell formally
Current & future markets? - What type & structure? - What transitional paths possible? - Local & regional food systems - New market support systems - New approaches, timeframes.
LOCAL ECONOMIES
&THE MARKET- Who How
- Options
WHAT IS RIG NETWORK?
RIG Network is an independent project initiative, that involves stakeholders from community, industry, training, research, and government and non-government organisations, to conduct activities in two core program areas:
1Network development and information sharing - via the RIG Network website, RIG newsletters, discussion groups, and email communications.
1Strategic research, advocacy and policy development - via targeted research and outreach projects, to better understand and support more sustainable local food production initiatives in remote communities.
Visit: www.remoteindigenousgardens.net
Thank you & grow well…