IndieBakehouse

06/09/2024

So many staff meetings.. so little time!

05/09/2024

05/09/2024

31/08/2024

Bulk buyers clubs - groups of family, friends or neighbours pooling their buying power to access wholesale prices - are a small but mighty movement with the potential to take on or heal many of the big challenges we face as a community: cost of living, food security, social isolation, environment, the list goes on.

Our sister non-profit, Food Connect Foundation, has drawn on collective decades of knowledge and experience from our community to create a handbook with everything you need to know to start your own, and it’s available to download for free!

Check it out here: https://fcf.org.au/resource

30/08/2024

🌿🍎 Calling All Brisbane Foodies! 🍎🌿

Experience the unique flavours of Australia right here in Brisbane with a Bushfood Cooking Masterclass led by the renowned Aunty Dale Chapman from My Dilly Bag!

🗓️ Date: Monday, September 23
⏰ Time: 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM
📍 Location: TAFE Queensland South Bank Campus
60 Tribune St, South Brisbane, 4101, Australia

Join us for a hands-on cooking experience where you’ll learn to create delicious dishes using native Australian ingredients. Aunty Dale will share her deep cultural knowledge and passion for bushfoods, making this a must-attend event for anyone interested in local flavours and Indigenous cuisine.

What you’ll get:
✨ Expert guidance on cooking with native ingredients
✨ Insight into the cultural heritage of bushfoods
✨ Tasty recipes to recreate at home

This is a unique opportunity to connect with Brisbane’s culinary roots. Spots are limited, so make sure to book your place today!

🎟️ Tickets:
https://www.eventbookings.com/b/event/bushfood-cooking-masterclass-with-aunty-dale-chapman-my-dilly-bag

Let’s celebrate Brisbane’s local flavours together!

22/08/2024

18/08/2024

🌿 Unlock the Secrets of Bushfoods in Your Own Backyard!🌿

Join us for an exclusive workshop where you'll learn to identify, grow, and cook with native Australian bushfoods right at home. Discover the rich flavors and nutritional benefits of plants that have been sustaining our land for thousands of years.

Whether you're a gardening enthusiast or a foodie looking to explore indigenous ingredients, this workshop is perfect for you!

📅 Date:7th September & 16th November
📍 Location:My Dilly Bag
🎟️ Limited spots available! Secure yours now: https://mydillybag.com.au/collections/instore-workshops/products/bushfoods-in-your-backyard

Bring the taste of the outback to your kitchen!

Image: Strawberry Gum 😍

12/08/2024

SEQ Food Summit - Day 1: People’s Day - Sunday 28th July 2024

We started the with an event that started with community. We strongly believe that local communities hold the knowledge required to effect systems change, and all that’s required is a way to facilitate agency to empower local leadership. Eaters have been telling us for over 18 years that they really want to connect with the people that grow their food, and are looking for alternative ways to source their provisions that are local, ethical and sustainable.

Led by the indefatigable Georgiadis, the scene was set with a beautiful Welcome to Country by Derek Sandy from Dancers. People’s Day featured an indoor market including Connect Shed kitchen tenants, regional and urban growers, co-ops and food makers from all over the region.

People also wanted to find ways to get more hands on and participate in shaping their food system. Scattered throughout the market, we had Listening Posts run by Northey Street City Farm, Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance, , and Slow Food Brisbane where the public could engage around questions like:

🍎 “How can I participate ethically in the food system?”,
🥑 “Who holds the power behind the food that I eat?”,
🍓 “Where does my food come from? How does it get here? And why does it matter?”.

The kids zone kept littlies busy with hands on gardening and an art wall provided by Green Thumbs and curious minds were informed by a range of workshops and talks (which were all packed to the rafters), including:

🛒 How to break up with your supermarket, with
👩‍🌾 Gardening in Small Spaces with Soil Permaculture
🌾 How to start a bush tucker verge garden with Georgiadis, DavePratt from , and Chris Jordan from Little Birds Catering and Events
🍸 How to make native food mocktails with Jordan
🌾 Live demonstrations of our community-scale flour mill, Mill
🥒 How to ferment your excess veggies with Lizz Hills from the Collective
🧀 How to make ricotta cheese with Wendy Downes from Cheese Board

It was a joyous morning at Food Connect Shed, and the perfect way to kick off the .

All of this was made possible by grants from the Government's Benefit Fund Queensland and Macdoch Foundation, and lots of volunteer time, effort and love!

12/08/2024

It’s Ekka public holiday this Wednesday which means:

WE
ARE
OPEN!!!!

Come visit us this Ekka Wednesday from 1-7pm at 8 Lucy St Moorooka.

If you are short on time, you can always preorder online before Wednesday 8am and we will have your order boxed and ready to go.

https://sovereignfoods.com.au

03/08/2024

Cowfunding: Cattle and Community v Capitalism

There’s something pretty special about our cow herd. We bought them with money lent to us by our community.

Most small farms are woefully short of cash to grow, and we’re no exception. With business loan rates running around 7%, it’s pretty difficult to borrow money to buy livestock.

Plus you pay thousand of dollars of interest to banks, who I’m sure do totally ethical things with it.

We didn’t want to be part of that, so we turned to our community.

We gave people the opportunity to buy a cow, to name it and love it as their own. Every time their cow weans a calf, we’ll buy it from them until their initial investment is repaid.

There’s no interest, though our cowfunders will get a discount on any produce they buy from us.

It’s also a risk-sharing arrangement. If their cow doesn’t wean a calf, there’s no repayment that year. In the unlikely event that their cow died before it’s paid off, we’ll split the loss 50/50.

What’s the value proposition? Financially, bu**er all. But the social, environmental and community value is off the charts.

This is how we change the world. 💪🏽❤️🌱

24/07/2024

This Sunday's People's Day is more than a market - it's an opportunity to learn and have your voice heard.

Our friends at Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance, Fair Food Futures, Slow Food Brisbane and Northey Street City Farm will be there with listening posts - a chance to hear about work being done in your local food system, find initiatives and activities you can get involved with, and maybe buy a book or two.

These stands are also spaces for you to share what you want to see in your community's food future - whether that's affordability, more alternatives to the major supermarkets, ways for kids to connect with farmers, we want to hear it all, and we'll be feeding your thoughts forward to industry and government on Days 2 and 3 of SEQ Food Summit.

People's Day - SEQ Food Summit - feat. Costa Georgiadis - 8am-1pm, Sunday 28 July at Food Connect Shed

24/07/2024

CUSP opening
Fri 26th July at 6pm 🥂🤩
See u all there!
Group exhibition featuring:
Emma Boys
Nicola Lidgett
Gwenneth Lippiatt
Ellah Marshall
Panlop Moung-Ngern
Karen Palmer
Michael Shaw
Georgia Temple
Kohei Tomita
Exhibition Continues:
Saturday, July 27, 10am-4pm
Sunday, July 28, 10am-2pm
See web for more info .

24/07/2024

24/07/2024

How do turtles know how to get back to the very same beach to lay their eggs years after they hatched.

How do birds know how to migrate to the very same tree or pond on the opposite side of the planet without getting lost.

Why do cows always seem to stand facing the same direction in a paddock when they graze

How do those weird folk with a pendulum or forked stick wandering around a paddock seem to be able to find water deep underground.

Why when I spend quite time resting in nature I just seem to feel centred and rested.

Could there be some sort of subtle energy within ecology and the landscape eagerly waiting to connect with us.

Join Marg Bridgeford at the field day. On the 31st of August at Echo Valley
For a Dowsing, muscle-testing and connection workshop.

Come along to learn dowsing and muscle-testing techniques to connect your quiet inner self with the land, animals and people around you! OR maybe some days you’ll use it to find your lost car keys or the leak in the underground water pipe! The opportunities are boundless :) Bring along your divining rods or dowsing pendulum if you have them. Marg Bridgeford will give a short explanation, then some practical demonstrations as well as time in the paddock to practice!

Grab your tickets online via our bio or in the comments below.

15/07/2024

We are a social enterprise creating a fairer food system with Local, Seasonal, Ecological Food Direct

03/07/2024

This is why we get all out flours from Sovereign Foods- because the thing that makes sense to me as a baker and food maker is I want to look in the eyes of the people who supply me, and thank goodness Thor and the gang do that.

One of the questions we get asked fairly regularly is about why we source our produce and pantry goods only from Australian farms and suppliers.

Why is that?

🌱 The market for pantry staples in Australia is flooded with imports due to their lower costs of production, but long supply chains mean we are not getting the freshest food possible, and it is difficult to know how the food was grown and what the farmer was paid.

🌱 Because we know and talk with our growers, we are able to ask questions about their farming methods, what this means for the food they grow and the health of the land they farm. This means we can pass this information to you.

🌱 We can also ask our growers what prices they need for their food, to make sure they are paid enough to keep doing what they do best. Often in the long supply chain model, farmers are told what they will be paid, dictated by market forces. Too often growers are paid below what it cost them to grow the food.

🌱 Supporting Australian producers increases our food security. Only a few years ago we all experienced the challenges of disrupted global supply chains and were grateful to have robust, local alternatives for our pantry staples. We think this is an important long term consideration for everyone.

What do you think? Do you have any questions for us that you want or need answered?

We’re here to help.

The team at Sovereign Foods 🧄

01/07/2024

❤️💪🏽🌱We aren’t Woolies. 🌱💪🏽❤️

Seems obvious, right? We know that makes us a less convenient way to buy your food.

We only sell what we grow, which is limited by the ecological capacity of the country we manage, our financial constraints, our time and energy (it’s just Brydie and I), rainfall, seasons… a whole bunch of stuff.

While that means that we always sell out of eggs and we can’t sell you six eye fillets or a chicken breast and sometimes we need to prioritise our lives and can’t make a Sunday market…

… it also means we can provide you with delicious, ethical produce that you can be proud to feed your family.

It means we can be open and transparent about the how, what, why and when of food production.

It means we can keep doing it long-term. It means we can build something really special alongside you.

Thanks for supporting us. Ps - we won’t be at the Bardon Market tomorrow.

25/06/2024

How’s this for on the spot intro 😜. Such a great community to be part of.

25/06/2024

23/06/2024

Community over competition ❤️
It’s something we bang on about, but what does it actually mean?
If small local regenerative farmers banded together and collectivised ~ rather than competed ~ we would find ourselves in a scenario where more people were fed and had access to local, nutrient dense, environmentally responsible food! It’s not about a farmer from Sydney sending their produce to Cairns, it’s about that farmer connecting the enquiries with farmers in their own region that produce a similar regenerative product.
So folks, while our online shop is closed this week, we have a beautiful bunch of farmers and makers that you can connect with. There are some amazing Regenerative farms and farmers out there doing some incredible stuff - both inside and outside of our local area, your task is to TAG a farmer that you know, who grows great produce in collaboration with their community and their landscape. We’ll get you started (and by no means is this an exhaustive list - we know TOO many fabulous farmers to list them all, we would run out of word count!!)













….ok GO!! Find them, eat their food. Look at the comments and find a farmer in your region. ❤️

21/06/2024

Love Mymy! The best probiotic drink out there. And delicious- actually delicious 🤤

LAST CALL FOR BOTTLE RETURNS: Maya from MYMY Probiotic is getting ready to wrap up the bottled kefir arm of her business. Her impressive circular economy practices have seen over 121,000 bottles reused throughout her return program, so if you've got some MYMY bottles to get off your hands* and want to help her boost that number up in the home stretch, please bring them to the Shed by 30 June.

*MYMY bottles only please. Keep other types for your own containers for cash efforts!

21/06/2024