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Solidarity Session #6 - Wed 12 August 6:00pm 
 Resilience in community-owned value chains with Food Connect

Solidarity Sessions are back next week with Food Connect - the home of Australia's first community-owned food hub.

We're talking to Robert Pekin and Emma-Kate Rose of Food Connect about building community-owned food systems: how producers and eaters together can reclaim ownership of value chains and infrastructure, why community ownership matters and how it strengthens the food system for all of us.

Register for this session

Food Connect Brisbane began in 2005 with a vision to reconnect eaters with ethical local farmers, to pay producers a fair price for the food and enable communities to invest in their growers and their local food system. They've since built a network of 120 farms and food-makers supplying a community of 1500 households.

Last year, the Food Connect community came together to crowdfund Australia's first community-owned local food hub, the Food Connect Shed, providing the infrastructure to create a stable market for  farmers, completely divorced from market forces, and to create a home to many ethical food entrepreneurs.

Sign up here and join Rob and Emma-Kate as we explore how they did it, what it means for their food community, and how we can grow more community-owned food systems.
 

If you're want to be part of transforming our food system and supporting solidarity economies, small-scale farmers, and food sovereignty, being an AFSA member is a great way to start. It is our members who provide the mandate and the support for the work we do to advocate for everyone's right to decide their own food system. If you're not a member yet, you can join us here.