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Highlights 2020-21

A look back over the last two years worth of works we’ve carried out on the Farm: the Barn and the picnic area, the First Nations Edible Garden, the Orchard and Cut Flower Garden, the Market Garden, cell grazing in the Stables Paddock, the Compost Slab and the swale behind it, and the Big Green …

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Spring 2021 Newsletter

Welcome back to the Farm! With lockdowns hopefully becoming a thing of the past, we are very excited to welcome everyone back to the Collingwood Children’s Farm. We reopened our doors on Thursday, October 28 and will be open from 9.30am to 3pm every day except for Christmas Day. If you’ve been following our social media, …

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An Update on Farm Projects

We can’t wait to welcome you all back so you can check out all the new things at the farm! Click here to watch a short video on some of the projects we’ve been working on while we’ve been closed.  

Summer Newsletter

Hello to all our wonderful Farm Friends and welcome to our Summer Newsletter.Things have been a little busy here at the Farm since reopening so there’s quite a bit to fill you in on!! Since our last newsletter in September, we’ve happily been able to reopen to the public!  Its been wonderful to have the …

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Farm Spring Newsletter

Hello to all of you wonderful friends of CCF!It’s been a while since our last newsletter. And what a strange, strange time this has been. We continue to send everyone well wishes, hoping that you and your families have remained safe and sane over the past few months and that our lamb and kid goat spam has …

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Moving Feast

The Farm is part now of Moving Feast. This amazing group of food social enterprises that have united together to grow, cook and deliver meals to the most vulnerable Victorians in response to the pandemic and beyond.

Farm Podcast

Made possible by the Public Records Office and produced by Pur Production, a wonderful podcast has been developed to collect and share the stories of the Farm today and those of our past. The celebration of the history of this space looks at the three main historical perspectives that exist here at the Farm. Listen …

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Our Community Farm Shop!

It’s been a while in the making, but our Farm Shop is slowly getting there! The shop is stocked with great CCF merchandise such as t-shirts, bumper stickers, Farm book, Farm CD and some amazing cards and post cards from Steve , Ciara and Patrick! We have also just started selling products from some of …

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Our very own Book Launch!

‘We went to the Collingwood Children’s Farm’ As part of the ‘Dynamic Communities Grow’ project supported by the Bank of Melbourne, the Farm partnered with Kids Own Publishing and local artist Ciara Denham to run ‘Chook Books’ Children who visited the Farm where able to create their very own published 8-page books using a range …

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Dynamic Communities Grow

Last year the Bank of Melbourne generously awarded the Farm funding so that we could develop and expand the range of activities, workshops and experiences that the Farm’s community could take part in! We have just come to the official end of the funding, but fear not! The support from the Bank of Melbourne meant …

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