Launching the BCSGFSA Healthy Soil, Healthy People, citizen science project “Soil your undies”. The Bass Coast South Gippsland Food System Alliance (BCSGFSA) team launched a citizen science project called “Soil your undies” at the Foster show on the 28th March 2026. The experiment will help to test how active and healthy your soil is, and work on how to improve it, if your results show that it is inactive and needs some work to help feed those wriggly worms and organisms.

Hiding below the Marigold at the top with the yellow highly scented flowers, the plant at the bottom of this image is a Portulaca variety called Common Purselane. Some might automatically dart their gloved hand or trowel towards it to pull it out like an unwanted weed, but stop before it's too late, you'll want to keep this one. Purselane is a highly nutritious, annual weed, it's drought- tolerant, has thick green leaves with reddish stems and small yellow flowers. High in Om

Growing your own heirloom tomatoes is one of the most pleasurable things about growing your own food. The taste is better than anything you could buy from a big supermarket, not to mention the lack of food miles from your backyard to your kitchen. But lurking along side the threat of not enough or too much rain each summer is the threat of the creatures small and medium who love your toms as much as you do. Organic gardening means we don't reach for the synthetic sprays and d

During the BCSGFSA lunch event at the Korumburra Community Hub on the 18th Feb 2026, Serenity Hill suggested a book titled "The Carbon Farming Solution" by Author Eric Toensmeier, a Yale University lecturer, a Senior Fellow with Project Drawdown and an international trainer. With extensive knowledge about useful perennial plants and their roles in agroforestry systems he cultivates around 300 species in his urban garden. The Carbon Farming Solution: A Global Toolkit of Perenn

Lunch with Serenity Hill. Healthy Landscapes, Healthy Communities- BCSG Food System Alliance event on 18th February 2026. Held at the Korumburra Community Hub, the BCSGFSA team met with Serenity Hill and welcomed attendees to share a healthy fresh lunch and conversation about local food systems. James Duffield, the Project Coordinator for the Food Alliance asked Serenity a number of questions on the subject. Serenity gave thoughtful answers with her years of knowledge and exp

Grower tour at Julie's property in Dumbalk. Sun, 29 Mar, 1pm - 3pm AEDT TICKETS: $15 each (+GST + booking fee) Julie moved to her property in late 2020 and has transformed the garden from being overgrown and let go, with basically nothing left but agapanthus, into a thriving productive food garden. Julie is one of the fantastic local producers who supply the Grow Lightly weekly online store and the monthly farmers market with fresh local produce, seeds and seedlings. This

BCSGFSA can GUARANTEE they will buy your local produce* even if you only have one or two cauliflowers or a bunch of silverbeet, lemons or herbs. Regular, seasonal or casual producers are welcome too. * A "GROWERS CHARTER" is required to be signed by all producers to show the commitment to producing food of high nutritional value without recourse to synthetic fertilisers, herbicides or pesticides. Our MOBILE GROCER has some capacity for produce collection from growers, so if t

Bass Coast- South Gippsland Food System Alliance (BCSGFSA) Forward motion for our region’s food system, Mohya Davies has been appointed Chair of the BCSGFSA and James Duffield has joined the team as the Project Coordinator. BCSGFSA projects are underway, funded by the grant awarded from VicHealth’s Local Partnerships for Food First. With a focus on creating a food system that is healthy, equitable and sustainable, and which prioritises community wellbeing as a collaborative m

Grant secured from VicHealth for the BCSGFSA Bass Coast- South Gippsland Food System Alliance Grow Lightly are one of the partners involved with the ‘ Bass Coast- South Gippsland Food System Alliance’, which have secured a Government grant from VicHealth's Local Partnerships for Food First program. BCSGFSA is a collaborative movement, uniting growers, producers, volunteers and consumers to build a transformative local food economy from the ground up. The Food Alliance belie