Meet the people who live in the Food Depot community; listen to their stories and learn about life in 2032.
Each image below has an audio track that accompanies it. Press the play button to hear these short stories from the future.
With our home-grown vegetables (managed by Jim's Urban Farming) and leftover food from Meals-On-Wheels, I have enough to feed my family.
Sienna Jacobs, Meals-On-Wheels co-ordinator for Sunshine imagebrokenchopstick
Although urban farming involves more negotiation with consumers and regulators, it's good to be part of the city community but still eating locally grown fresh food.
Aima, Urban Farmer, Princes Park. imageDelgoff
When I eat at my local cafe, they can tell me which vegetables were grown by my neighbours - and I can avoid the ones grown by my former husband!
Working in the after-school production kitchen has earned me enough money to go to Paris, but it will be two more years before I have enough carbon credits.
Food Exchange lets workers and volunteers swap and share food (including surplus), time, money and cultural knowledge through recipes and growing techniques.
Edward Hund, Founder, Food Exchange imagepaulbence_photography
Land-swapping lets us farm in the city along the rivers and in the parks, and opens up areas for development around the metropolitan fringe.
Bill Smith, owner and manager, Yarra Valley Farm Systems. imageVanessa_Pike-Russell
These days, we decide on the menus together, and even if the customers aren't all helping to grow food or cook it with me, they feel like they're part of something.
Axel, employee, Meals on Wheels. imagerochelle_et_al
With my rickshaw-powered Produce Delivery business, I'm getting paid to keep fit, I get to uni lectures on time, and I can manage all the bidding and payments on-line.
Billy, part-time student. imagerochelle_et_al
Using a trailer that clips on to the trams lets me travel a fair distance quite easily to collect produce for my inner-city customers - mostly apartment residents and restaurant kitchens.
John, Food Transport Driver. imageCarbonNYC
We have used our partnerships with local cooking schools, Aboriginal Education centres and the Department of Land and Food to rediscover native foods that were once indigenous to this region.
What happens when only one half of a couple wants to downshift?
Joeleon works for The Agency, and Jai wants to work in the Food Co-Op. imagebrokenchopstick
The council and Meals On Wheels are supporting us to grow and cook our own vegetables - now Carlo can enjoy being a chef again!
Mabel (and her husband Carlo) imageVanessa_Pike-Russell
Mandyflowers and sunflowers do double-duty on co-operative farming plots - through bioremediation and visual appeal, they excite and educate the community.
Susie, Land Reclamation & Rejuvenation Consultant imageOrin_Optiglot
Constant communication with other wholesalers and growers around the city lets us plan food supply around surplus and shortages.
Jasmine, Urban Food Wholesaling Service Co-ordinator imageVanessa_Pike-Russell
The Cafe sits at the heart of our community. We grow, cook, preserve and learn about seasonal food through our evolving relationships - any challenges bring dynamism.
Sarah, Chef, Urban Food Cafe imagebrokenchopstick
Managing supply, demand and delivery of local food is part of my job, but I also talk to growers and cafes about quality and consistency, balancing their needs with ours.
Jo Fragapani, Food Distribution Hub Co-ordinator imagerex
I'm friends with the people whose gardens I grow food in. I definitely prefer this to working on a vertical farm.
The Dockies Blue Algae Smoothie is our top-seller. It's available from the Smoothy Tram Trolley all around Melbourne, and is super-rejuvenating - I swear by it!
Lately the IT side of the Hub has been running smoothly, which leaves me free to monitor the butterfly hatching unit - we've been having problems there.
Until recently, the Food Aid Carbon Credits offset our Food Miles, but the regulations are getting tighter and we'll need to enter the local market soon.
Ronaldinho, Organic Produce exporter, Brazil image(Tres)
I can see the food gardens from my home office, and it's good to share in the work and the reward.
Ivan A’ppetite, compost contributor and part-time gardener. imagemanatari
Growing, managing, finding new sites, bioremediation...These are all issues that affect our rural and urban farming groups. We help them exchange information.
I never would have guessed that Turkish food and Indigenous Australian flavours would go together so well, but Meals-on-Wheels and the local school are already using my recipes!
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