Mullumbimby Sustainability Education and Enterprise Development Incorporated (Mullum SEED) has received funding to work in partnership with regenerative farmers to create a transitional pathway for the local food sector.
Developed in partnership with Mullum SEED and Santos Organics, the $20,000 grant by the Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal (FRRR) builds on Santos’s successful ‘grow the growers’ project that has supported farmers to shift to organic and regenerative practices.
Mullum SEED’s director, Techa Beaumont, told The Echo, the project is ‘especially important as we face additional challenges of climate change and severe weather’.
Footprint reduced
She says, ‘The project aims to contribute to a reduced climate footprint through a more resilient and self-sustaining local food system. It will also set the foundation for establishment of a Northern Rivers Community-led Regenerative Food System Coalition to work together to take the identified actions’.
Mullum SEED was one of 27 national organisations awarded funding to ‘empower rural communities across Australia to adopt practices and solutions that reduce emissions and address the impacts of climate change’.
Not-for-profit organisation FRRR say they ‘connect common purposes and funding from government, business and philanthropy with the genuine local needs of rural people and places’.
FRRR claim to be the ‘only national foundation specifically focused on ensuring the social and economic strength of remote, rural and regional communities’.
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