Make A Difference Dingley Village is really living up to its name – making an impact by sharing FareShare meals and homegrown vegetables with people in need. The welcoming space in the outer southeastern suburbs of Melbourne has been providing support to people doing it tough for 40 years. Make Read more…
FareShare’s new flagship Dingley Farm aims to help meet the increasing need for food relief by tripling the volume of vegetables we can grow.
FareShare’s Abbotsford kitchen garden marked a major milestone in March 2026 – celebrating 10 years of growing food for people in need. Located between Victoria Park train station and the Victoria Park football oval in inner city Naarm/Melbourne, the site was once a neglected dumping ground. Today, it stands as a thriving urban garden, producing thousands of kilograms of vegetables and herbs every year. The diverse range of produce from the Read more…
FareShare Melbourne: cooking more meals, Meals for the Mob continues, Dingley farm gathers pace Cooking more meals for people who need them most Our Abbotsford chefs and volunteers are well and truly back into the swing of things in our revamped kitchen… July was an incredible month, with 110,345 meals
On any given day, the staff and volunteers at the Abbotsford garden get asked about the history of the site, what it’s currently being used for, and how it came to be a kitchen garden that grows vegetables to help people doing it tough. And while our staff and volunteers
Back in 1999 Les Baguley was working a 100-hour week for Australia’s biggest flower growers in Melbourne’s Southeast. Born into a business started by his parents, horticultural legends Frank and Isabel, Les could scarcely have imagined how his life would change when aged just 47 he suffered a catastrophic stroke.
Marnie Dixon decided to volunteer with FareShare because she witnessed first hand the benefits of our meals to struggling women and their families. The garden volunteer worked for more than 21 years as an outreach community nurse and midwife supporting homeless women and families in inner-city Melbourne. As a first
FareShare has enjoyed a record-breaking year in our Melbourne kitchen gardens producing 48 tonnes of vegetables this year – a 28 per cent increase on our entire crop for 2018. With a total of 1.5 acres under production at our Abbotsford, Moorabbin Airport and Clayton South sites, FareShare’s 152 garden
Marg on harvesting duty at our Abbotsford kitchen garden After a career spent working indoors as a librarian and editor, Marg Wanklyn decided it was time to head outdoors. She now volunteers at our Abbotsford kitchen garden where she co-supervises the Wednesday morning shift. While Marg grows vegetables alongside Victoria
Zucchini flourishing in Melbourne Interested in growing food in Melbourne? The FareShare garden manual could be just the tool you need. FareShare’s kitchen garden program has shared its experiences of urban food production at its three Melbourne garden locations – Abbotsford, Moorabbin Airport and Clayton South. The 74-page manual covers