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…
An inspiring volunteer-run hub for food relief is helping people facing hardship across Naarm/Melbourne’s outer east put food on the table. The dedicated team of around 80 volunteers at Wantirna’s Outer East Foodshare (OEF) collect surplus food from local supermarkets, as well as receiving deliveries of ready-to-eat FareShare meals and Read more…
From the moment people seeking food relief come through the colourfully painted door at Thornbury Church of Christ they are treated with kindness and respect. When the SecondBite team visited the food relief program on a Wednesday, the comforting smell of baked goods wafted to the door as the friendly faces of volunteers greeted us. The church chapel was set up as a Community Hub with round tables and chairs, a tea and coffee station and a snack table for Read more…
The Melbourne production of A Christmas Carol has joined forces with FareShare to help provide meals with heart for people going without this Christmas.
One year on from the landmark merger between SecondBite and FareShare, we are celebrating a 30% surge in meal production and a 8% increase in rescued food. Since joining forces on July 1, 2024, we’ve been able to supercharge our national food relief efforts – transforming surplus food into millions Read more…
Servings: 4 Ingredients 340g pasta (any variety you have on hand) 45ml olive oil (approx. 3 tablespoons) 3-4 cloves garlic, minced (or dried garlic powder if you don’t have fresh) 400g can of diced tomatoes (or use leftover fresh tomatoes that are about to turn) 30g tomato paste (approx. 2 Read more…
FareShare expands its reach to complement SecondBite produce at NSW homelessness support charity Dignity Capitalising on SecondBite’s extensive infrastructure and networks, which includes dozens of trucks and more than 1,000 charity partners, FareShare meals have begun to travel farther and wider than ever before, to reach communities that really need
FareShare cooks Christmas meals for 300 people doing it tough at the Fr. Bob Foundation Christmas lunch FareShare is proud to have once again catered the Father Bob Maguire Foundation Christmas lunch in December 2024, providing a delicious meal for around 300 of Melbourne’s most disadvantaged people. In a wonderful