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…
There’s nothing like a winter soup to warm your heart and your belly. This delicious winter warmer recipe is a favourite of Dean, the Executive Chef of FareShare’s Melbourne kitchen. It is easy-to-cook, nutritious, fun, filling and serves 6-8 people. Perfect for the cold winter months. Dean says, “I often 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…
As we look back on 2025, one thing is clear — it was a year of extraordinary impact. Thanks to rescued produce from generous farmers and supermarkets, alongside fresh food grown on FareShare farms, our dedicated chefs and volunteers cooked more than 3 million nutritious meals. Each one was prepared Read more…
The FareShare kitchens in Brisbane and Melbourne hit a big new milestone in 2025 – producing more than 3 million meals for the year. The hardworking chefs and volunteers in FareShare’s kitchens made an incredible 3.1 million meals in 2025 – a 34 percent increase on the 2.3 million meals 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…