Local charity farm feeding people in need.

Nick Steiner the 2023 Moreton Bay Region Council Citizen of the Year has created a unique charity to grow food for people in need all year round and is now supported by Freedom Church and Annie Lane.

The Mini Farm Project is a registered charity working to create a network of charity farms to grow food for people in need all year round.

From their current site in Samford, they have been providing farm fresh produce to John and Sue at Freedom Church food pantry over the past few weeks as well as Breakfast Club in Redcliffe.

Founder Nick Steiner started the charity in 2014 with his first farm in his back yard. Food was given to Caboolture Community Action. During that time new smaller farms were developed in Brisbane to show that they could grow food anywhere and developed a grow bag farm and raised garden bed farms. Unfortunately, Covid put a halt to their smaller volunteer run farms in the city but provided an opportunity to develop a half-acre site in Samford with Millen Farm and partner with Meals on Wheels. They are now working to develop charity farms from the Tweed all the way up to Cairns. The Mini Farm Project solves two main issues, one there is not enough food reaching people in need, so they grow it and two, they provide food to charities for free to save charities buying food to distribute.

Their goal is to the largest provider of free fruit, vegetables, herbs, fish, chicken eggs and bush foods each week to charities to create meals.

They are now working to fund a new charity farm at LuvaBerry in Wamuran which is supported by Rotary Caboolture for charities in Moreton Bay. With 21% of Australian households now experiencing severe food insecurity projects like The Mini Farm Project are more important than ever.

This year Nick wanted to do something different and unique for people that donate. He created a Community Program to attract 100,000 people to join for less than the price of a cup of coffee a month.

The Community then gets to see where the money is spent, decide on the next farm to be developed and sit in on operations meetings through live streams online.

This is certainly an amazing project to build trust with the community and charities.

You may also have seen Candice from Annie Lane support The Mini Farm Project by hosting a High Tea in December to help fund a bed at their Wamuran Farm. Make sure you follow Annie Lane to find out about the next High Tea this year.

You can find out more about The Mini Farm Project and the amazing projects they are working on by visiting their site - www.mfp.org.au

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