Event recap: Sustainability Festival 2026- Bass Coast

Grow Lightly
Mar 18
1 min read

The Bass Coast South Gippsland Food System Alliance attended the Bass Coast Sustainability Festival hosted by Bass Coast Shire Council last weekend, to showcase the "Mobile Grocer" electric van and continue the launch of the #SoilYourUndies project for our Healthy Soils Healthy People initiative.

Thank you to everyone who attended and for those not able to attend on the day we hope you enjoy this recap as a way of promoting inclusivity in capturing the event.

check out the BCSGFSA website HERE.

BCSGFSA team members Sarah Kerwick of Gippsland Region Public Health Unit, James Duffield - BCSGFSA Coordinator and Becky Banks -Grow Lightly Chairperson.

Becky 'making do' as we await the new signage wrapping for the electric van.

A beautiful cornucopia of fresh produce on the BCSGFSA display at the festival

Items for sale, such as locally grown and saved seeds at affordable prices in sustainable upcycled packaging

Kits were available for those wanting to learn more and join the Food Alliance's project "Healthy Soil, Healthy People" citizen science project called "soil your undies", to test for soil health. Cotton "undies" sewn up by volunteers of Buckley Park Community Farm were given out with instructions on how to perform the experiment and a link for the online map to post your results to can be found on the information sheet.