CGA & Sustain Meet-Up

• Event date:
  27/08/2024 at 6:00 pm
• Event end:
  27/08/2024 at 7:30 pm
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• Free to members or $5.63-$10.75
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Supporters meet-up with guest Jacqui from Pocket City Farms

This month, in our Sustain and CGA members & supporters webinar meet-up, we have a very special guest speaker, Jacqui Besgrove, from Pocket City Farms who will enlighten us on a project she and her team have been tinkering away at in the background for some time now called Farm In A Box.

This webinar will feature an introduction to what Farm In A Box is all about, and the audience tuning in will have a remarkable opportunity to add your thoughts to the project in its research phase. Not only will you be assisting in shaping the future of PCF’s new urban farm site, but also many future green spaces all around the country, with this unique urban regeneration toolkit the team are creating.

Pocket City Farms is a not-for-profit registered charity that operates as a social enterprise. PCF started their first urban farm converting two disused bowling greens in Sydney back in 2016, and have just celebrated their 8th birthday!

Jacqui says they “have learnt so much on our journey and are now looking to open a new urban farm site. In doing so we want to build out our Farm In A Box concept, documenting all the learning from the past 8 years from how to secure land, our farmer incubator training program, all our farming tips and tricks, sales and marketing, our education and community programs and all the important but often overlooked stuff, governance models, policies and procedures, work health and safety and human resource management.

We aim to get this into a user-friendly toolkit so other groups across Australia can fast-track their journey to start urban regeneration. We’d love input from others to find out what would be useful to have in the toolkit.”

This event is free for members of Sustain and CGA!

If you are not a member you can join:

• Sustain here and
• CGA here.

Supporters can join the webinar for $10/$5.

This is the third of a series of joint members & supporters meet-ups we’ll be organising this year – so help us grow this movement and become a member!