"Nurturing land, nourishing people"
Food Next Door matches under-utilised farmland with landless farmers to support small-scale regenerative farming, growing diverse crops & engaging people from diverse backgrounds to supply food to local households.
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Food Next Door is an initiative with the goal of relieving the suffering or distress suffered by newly arrived migrants and refugee groups, particularly those without access to land and living in rural and regional areas.
We're working hard to solve this issue by supporting these groups to re-engage in farming and grow food, including their traditional foods.
This will be achieved by, amongst other things:
- Sourcing and negotiating access to land for the groups to use for farming
- Providing ongoing assistance and support to the groups to farm the land.
- Creating new distribution channels for the groups to sell their produce.
Our secondary objects are to:
- Build our soils and encourage regenerative farming practices.
- Strengthen local food economies through diversification of produce.
- Increase the number of small-scale farms to provide high quality produce to local markets.
- Strengthen overall community cohesion in the long term.
Pilot Projects
Food Next Door’s vision is for under-utilised and vacant farmland to be transformed into productive foodscapes using regenerative farming practices.
We are establishing a community demonstration farm based in Mildura, north-west Victoria, to progress this vision.
Victoria
Sunraysia Burundian Garden
New South Wales
Community Connections Garden
What's a Co-Op?
Co-operatives are organisations owned by members for the benefit of members.
They are different from other organisations because their priority is to have social and economic impact. Food Next Door also aims to have an environmental impact.
Co-ops around the world are guided by the Co-Operative Principles, which include democracy, open and inclusive voluntary membership, concern for community, and education.
Interested in becoming a member of Food Next Door?

In The News
Annual General meeting
Food Next Door multi-stakeholder co-op explained
A co-op education resource made by Sidsel Grimstad for University of Newcastle.
Earth Canvas - In Conversation
The panel discussion highlights the creative experiences of the regenerative farmers and the artists, and delves into their respective engagement with the land and their vision for a healthier world.
From Soil to Everything
Watch the story about Food Next Door Co-Op's purpose, and how we work closely with Mildura Community Water Bank & Out of the Box to achieve our goals.
The Wintersun - Episode 5
Local short doco series The Wintersun featured us for their fifth Youtube episode. We talk Local Food Economy, Out of the Box, and Sunraysia's Food Future.
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More land urgently needed!
Farmer members of Food Next Door Co-op inducted on Thursday were excited to start growing.
Landholders donating land to FND love seeing how the soil is improved through regenerative farming practices.
New farmers will be placed on a waiting list, as we search for more land.
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We can give you a shout out in our newsletter. Assuming the land needs to be somewhere in Sunraysia?
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Food Next Door Autumn news 2022 🍂 - mailchi.mp/806425067ed7/food-next-door-co-op-autumn2022-news-15324874 ... See MoreSee Less
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@foodnextdoorcoop is doing amazing work to support the growth of local food systems in the Sunraysia region. 🌱🌏
We’re excited to be funding their work to develop an accessible and culturally relevant training program for community members and small-scale farmers, originally from East Africa.
Check it out!
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ID: Photo of Food Next Door Co-op members. Text: Food Next Door Co-op is incubating small-scale farmers.
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Food Next Door Co-op matches abandoned farmland to skilled farmers and former refugees seeking land, growing the local food system in the Sunraysia region. They are using the funding to develop a culturally relevant training program for new migrant farmers that covers important areas like sales, marketing, supply chain logistics and regenerative practices.
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We were honoured to host a social enterprise bus tour at the farm today. Everyone learnt that peanuts grow underground and were excited to taste fresh peanuts!
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What saucery is this...!! I hope all were satéd 🤔
Mildura community water bank

Mildura Community Water Bank helps small-scale farmers access an affordable price on water to help them grow organic, sustainable produce without the pressures of commodified water pricing.
“This project is very important for the local community, helping the small-scale farmers to get access to affordable irrigation water for their farms to produce local fresh crops, to produce vegetables at a reasonable price that is affordable by everyone.”
– Jules Kangeta, Project Manager
Our Values
Nurturing
Food Next Door works to care for the land through growing, distributing and sharing food.
Community
We work to build community through growing, distributing and sharing food.
inclusion
We include people from diverse ethnic backgrounds, religious beliefs, gender and sexual identity, and age, who contribute as farmer and producer, consumer,
volunteer and landholder-members.
We welcome contributions from all Co-op members.
respect
We respect and acknowledge the knowledge and skills of all members. We respect and acknowledge the Traditional Owners on whose land we work.
We recognise their knowledge and skills in actively managing our land and waters for millennia.
Co-operation
We seek ways to work together.
Our Team
Click on our respective photographs to learn more about the team behind Food Next Door.

Darryl Lang
Director

Jennifer Douglas
Director & Landholder

Joselyne Majambere
Director

Kubota Songa
Director

Rob Brown
Director

Ben Dunn
CO‑FOUNDER

Deborah Bogenhuber
Co‑Founder

Joel Sindayigaya
Co‑Founder

Peter Webb
Former Grower's Mentor

Reece Cameron
Co‑Founder

Sevilla Furness-Holland
Co‑Founder
Our Advisory Board

Dr Fabiola Barba Ponce
Advisory Board Member

Dr Natascha Klocker
Advisory Board Member

Dr Sidsel Grimstad
Advisory Board Member

Olivia Dun
Advisory Board Member

Sam Byrne
Advisory Board Member
get in touch
We’d love to hear from you!