Common Ground Project

08/11/2024

Parents and youth of the Surfcoast / Geelong region, it’s time to talk climate with our young people! (Ages 8-18)

The fantastic Annie Brien, a climate resilience practitioner, will be facilitating a wonderfully inspiring workshop engaging creative practices to support young people and families to process feelings around climate change. This workshop will motivate, uplift young people to feel empowered in their lives to develop actions they can practice to live sustainably.

Annie will lead young people and their parents through interactive activities, using their hands to get messy and creative to process feelings and support creative problem solving. Expect some clay play, water play and big brainstorming activities!

Participants will come away feeling positive about a challenging topic! This workshop will encourage families to think collectively about how to build resilience in their communities.

Register your attendance via the link in our bio!

04/11/2024

Back to it today after Harvest Festival doing the next ‘harvest’ required for the week ahead 😅

Beets and radishes are our November flavour!

Cafe & Food Hub Market open Wednesday-Sunday 8-3

02/11/2024

Half a day! Not many hours at all!

Join us to celebrate the local food system. It’s going to be a beautiful day.

See all the info at commongroundproject.com.au/harvestfestival

25/10/2024

HARVEST FESTIVAL GIVEAWAY!

We’re giving away 1 x $100 Gift voucher for one of you to spend at any of our Common Ground Project stalls at our Harvest Festival on November 3rd.

The voucher is redeemable at the following: Market Style Cafe offering, CGP Bar, our Produce stall, Staying Grounded hot food stall and Travis from 

 🥕Conditions of entry:
 • The voucher is only valid for use on the day of our Harvest Festival so please only enter if you will be attending.
 • Winner will be drawn on Thursday 31st October 2024 based on our favorite answer in the comments.

 🥕Four steps to enter:
1. Like this post 
2. Follow us and on instagram
3. Share this post on your story
4. Tell us in the comments what you’re most excited for at our Harvest Festival

This giveaway is not associated with Instagram.

25/10/2024

Food Hub Updates:

Some of our faves are back on the shelf/fridge this week including Tofu and Mushrooms! Read on so see what else we’ve got available and what’s been restocked!

🥕🥬🥦Produce from us this week:
Carrots, Beetroot, Cherry Belle Radish, Snow Peas, Rhubarb, Farm Salad Mix, Mizuna, Rocket, Parsley, Dill, Spring Onion

🍋🥔🍄‍🟫Produce from local producers:
*RESTOCKED* Oyster mushrooms from
*RESTOCKED* Tofu from
*RESTOCKED* Meyer Lemons from Ocean Grove
Potatoes & Leeks from Foothill Organics
Garlic paste
Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Heritage Flour
Raw Honey Two Creeks Apiary
Native infused Chocolate & Tea Honey from
*RESTOCKED* Honey from
Organic seed packets .seeds
Spray free flowers from

🛒At Markets:
No markets for us this weekend but our Food Hub fridge will be stocked with produce.

Veg Boxes:
Veg boxes available for pick up & delivery Wed - Fri or pick up only on Saturday for our local customers. PLEASE NOTE: Postcodes 3226, 3240 & 3216 have delivery option for Thursdays only.

City customers! Pre order veg boxes available for pick up at & .molli.abbotsford

24/10/2024

We're in Forte Mag today!

Food and farming are at the forefront of Harvest Festival, shining a light on the regions prosperous produce.

22/10/2024

FARM GREENS SPANIKOPITA!

Lina, Farah and Beth conjured up this delicious farmy take on Spanikopita filled with farm greens, pumpkin, zaatar and ricotta. We even got to have a sample yesterday as part of our Tuesday vollie lunch and can confirm it’s absolutely delicious!!

Available for purchase at our Cafe or online (add to your weekly veg box order?) until sold out 🌱.

21/10/2024

Excited to share our lineup of musicians performing at the Harvest Festival on Sunday 3rd of November. We have a full and exciting program of music, workshops and activities for the community to enjoy. It's going to be amazing day. If you haven't yet put it in your calendar. Make sure you do, to not miss out !

21/10/2024

HARVEST FESTIVAL - STALLHOLDER SPOTLIGHT!

The lovely Fiona from will be attending our upcoming Harvest Festival with her jars of handmade Australian garlic paste and a delicious hot food offering of garlic marinated BBQ chicken skewers!

Unearthed Produce is a small family run business that grows garlic on their farm in Paraparap. Her garlic is planted, weeded and harvested all by hand. Fiona hand peels the garlic and makes it into a delicious creamy garlic paste (known as toum). It’s free of preservatives / additives and made in small batches, with love!

Available for purchase from her stall at our Harvest Festival held here at Common Ground Project on November 3rd 🧄

19/10/2024

We sold all of our tommie seedlings at a successful afternoon Market at on Thursday! Thanks to the North Geelong community for coming out in support, we had hot food available and a range of produce and we’re excited to do it all again on November 21st. (Stay tuned for time of the market we’re assessing if a later is better now with daylight savings!).

🥬 🍳 Produce from us this week:
Salad bag special - two for $9 of any; baby kale, salad mix, mizuna, baby chard, rocket. A limited range of seedlings! 
MEALS BY STAYING GROUNDED: QORMA E LUBIA & GREEN LEAVES (3 left!)

🧄 🍋 Produce from local growers:
Garlic paste 
Potatoes from Foothill Organics
NO LEMONS SORRY! Do you know anyone with lemons! Send them our way
Extra virgin olive oil 
Heritage flour 
Raw honey Two Creeks Apiary
Honey from
Native infused chocolate & tea 
Seeds from .seeds

🛒 Markets:
We’ll be at .harvest.trail Market on Sunday, a one-off event at Colac Showgrounds. Come and say hi, Amy will be speaking on a panel at 1:30pm.

Veg Boxes:
Veg boxes available for pickup & delivery Wednesday- Friday, or pickup Saturday only for our local customers.
PLEASE NOTE: Postcodes 3226, 3240 & 3216 have delivery option for Thursdays only.

City customers! Pre order veg boxes available for pickup at .molli.abbotsford and 

19/10/2024

Chicken business, and always having youth programs painting their little home.

Captured by who came to a volunteer Tuesday and not only harvested veggies all day but took some lovely photos too 📸💚

18/10/2024

Round two! Releasing our second free workshop on during the Harvest Festival!

Join Tom and Cameron from will show you how to grow oyster mushrooms and you’ll take home your own bucket 🍄‍🟫

Tickets at the link in our bio! Only 10 left already.

Kids program to be released soon, however no prior registrations will be required.

18/10/2024

We’ve always wanted to host something that brings together all of the small scale producers of this region!

We’re so excited to be hosting a Harvest Festival on Sunday November 3rd. Have you got it in your plans?

Come and show your support, there’s two workshops to register for in the link in our bio or at commongroundproject.com.au/harvestfestival that are free!

There’s also a kids program running most of the day (no pre booking required), live music from local artists and a food systems panel, as well as delicious hot food.

17/10/2024

At this year’s Harvest Festival on November 3rd, the exuberant Patrick Meaney, from Farm to Ferment will be hosting a one hour FREE workshop. He’ll be running us through the ‘basics of fermenting’, facilitating attendees emergence into the wonders of fermentation.

Patrick will showcase the fundamentals of fermentation, an ancient practice that allows for the development of complex flavours, increased bioavailability, and enhanced nutrition. This workshop will equip participants with the initial skillset to allow for experimentation of plant alchemy at home. An opportunity to add a touch of effervescence into your life awaits, a chance to utilise fermentation to vitalise holistic connection and culture.

Spots are limited so be sure to register prior to the day. See event details in the link in our bio.

16/10/2024

Noor Jan and Karima have made you a delicious vegetarian meal for this week’s Staying Grounded program.

Any purchase of the meals directly pays for the training and employment of refugee and migrant women, celebrating their culture and cuisine, and providing work to women struggling to find employment in Australia.

Available in limited numbers this week!

14/10/2024

Join us on Thursday night for the Common Ground Project's Staying Grounded Afghan feast to celebrate and raise awareness of the Feed Geelong Appeal.

Purchase your tickets https://events.humanitix.com/feed-geelong-appeal-x-staying-grounded-feast

14/10/2024

Just a friendly reminder that this Thursday 17th is the third Thursday of the month, which means Common Ground Farm will be back at the Hope Community Garden with their fantastic selection of affordable fresh organic vegetables.

There will also be some hot food cooked by the women from Common Ground’s Staying Grounded program, coffee made by Cultura’s Barista students, and spring seedlings for sale.

This is a great opportunity to support the incredible work of Common Ground Farm, a partner committed to sustainable farming and community well-being.

The market will be open from 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm, so please come along, grab some fresh produce, and connect with colleagues and the community.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Common Ground Project