Want to get dirty in a CERES market garden? Merri Creek Market Garden: This 2½ acre Garden is located 2kms North of CERES along the bike path. Farmed continuously for around 150 years, this garden is providing amazing produce for CERES Market and Café.
	Honey Lane Market Garden: ½ an acre of paradise with a beautiful mix of fruit trees and raised beds, a green house and a composting fortress. It is farmed in term time by children reconnecting with mother earth. CERES Vision: To create a model of exemplary urban land and water use, that links and educates diverse groups of people to grow organic food, feeding hundreds of families through CERES Market & Café, The Urban Orchard Project and local food co-ops, contributing to the local economy and inspiring thousands more to grow food together in their own suburbs.
	If this gets you going and you…. - are passionate about Community Supported Agriculture - enjoy getting your hands dirty - want to learn about organic market gardening - have half a day or more a week to give - then volunteer at CERES Market Gardens Contact: melissa@ceres.org.au or call 9387 2609 g top ^

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Seed savers Seed Savers is a network of friends and neighbours drawn together to ensure the preservation, free distribution and exchange of locally adapted open pollinated seeds and other planting materials. Seed saving is a political and practical alternative to the trend of Genetic Manipulated seeds. The Seed Savers network is now established at CERES and has undergone seasonal swaps. If you want to be involved or learn more about it, please email: seedsavers@ceres.org.au, or visit http://seedsavers.humanpowered.com.au for more info.
Propagation The Propagation Team produces organic vegetable and herb seedlings for the sale at the Nursery and for produce growing at the honey Lane market Garden and the Merri Creek Market Garden. The enterprise was established to produce quality organic seedlings as CERES previously purchased seedlings off-site and provide organic seedlings for the general public, this in turn reduces CERES food miles. This area needs regular interested volunteers who can come for an extended period of time (eg the same time each week) and are interested in horticulture. Thursdays 10am - 5pm (or half day available, morning or afternoon) and Fridays 9.00 - 12.00pm. For more information email melissa@ceres.org.au
Honey Lane Market Garden ½ an acre of paradise with a beautiful mix of fruit trees and raised beds, a green house and a composting fortress. Honey Lane is a multiple use garden set up for farm education as well as food and seedling production, it is farmed in term time by children reconnecting with mother earth. Organic produce harvested from Honey Lane supply CERES Market, Café and Co-ops. People interested in connecting with a local organic food system, who are keen to learn more about sustainable agriculture and have ½ a day of more of time available are invited to volunteer.
Merri Creek Market Garden This 2½ acre Garden is located 2kms North of CERES along the bike path. Farmed continuously for around 150 years, this garden is providing amazing produce for CERES Market, Café and co-ops. People interested in connecting with a local organic food system, who are keen to learn more about sustainable agriculture and have ½ a day of more of time available are invited to volunteer. top ^
Animals CERES Farm has a stable area that is home to over 120 Isa Brown chickens, 2 sheep and 2 lambs (Helmut, Princess Mary, Sunday and Bobby). The chickens provide the “famous CERES eggs which are sold at the CERES Market. The animals provide are part of the Farm Training Program , students with disability are responsible for collecting eggs and feeding the animals. The animals are also are point of interest for visitors connecting children and adults with farm animals in an urban environment.
OM Mushroom Project Our latest social enterprise in partnership with AMES is a small business training project for recently arrived immigrants growing organic shiitake and swiss brown mushrooms. Participants will learn business, food handling and horticultural skills, the pay off being recognised qualifications and a job in a business they have helped create and later the confidence and experience to find outside employment or start their own businesses. visit the OM webpage for more info
The Food Project Another social enterprise in partnership with AMES is a community kitchen project for recently arrived immigrants who are cooking and preserving local foods for sale at market and the cafe. Participants learn business skills and food handling skills, gain recognised qualifications and the confidence and experience to find outside employment or start their own businesses. visit the Food Project web page.
Training Programs Each term thousands of school children flood into Honey Lane discovering where their food comes from as well as discussing issues like sustainable agriculture and ‘food miles’. See our page on training programs top ^

Food Co-ops

CERES Organic Market co-ordinates food co-ops which provide affordable organic produce, grown on site and sourced as locally as possible, to our staff and volunteers, and a growing number of inner city food co-operatives. For more information on joining or starting a food co-op please email
co-ops@ceres.org.au

Urban Orchard Project

Urban Orchard has a new web stories page created by Camilla MacTier have a look here
The CERES Urban Orchard Project is a collection of folk from over 170 households across the inner northern suburbs of Melbourne who are interested in swapping and sharing the products of their backyard gardens.
Initially with a focus on utilising unused fruit from the abundant plantings across Brunswick and Northcote, the project has spread to vegetables, herbs and beyond.

Why? * To provide an opportunity for people to utilise otherwise-wasted fruit, veg, herbs, etc. * To create friendships within the neighbourhood and build stronger local communities * To reduce green waste and pressure on landfill * To provide healthy in-season food for the community * To reduce the need to transport produce from outside the city / state / country! – less transport means less fuel burned, hence reduced pollution and greenhouse gas emissions

Those with produce to swap gather every Saturday at the CERES Organic Market. Participants meet to share fruit, vegetables, herbs, gardening tips and stories. Lemons are swapped for apricots, apples for tomatoes, basil for nectarines, recipes for gardening tips, on a completely informal and friendly basis.

If you live in the inner northern suburbs and would like the opportunity to swap your excess backyard produce with others from the area, please click here to download our flyer.

Please forward completed flyers to: urbanorchard@ceres.org.au

Or by mail to: Urban Orchard Project
c/o CERES, 8 Lee St, East Brunswick, 3068

For more information contact CERES on (03) 9387 2609
or e-mail urbanorchard@ceres.org.au