Sharing Abundance

Sharing Abundance is the brainchild of Juliette Anich who is exploring alternative food systems as part of her PhD at RMIT in Melbourne.

Sharing abundance is a is a viable, local food system involving mutual exchange of fresh produce and labour in a fun, sociable way. Inspired by seeing so much perfectly beautiful fruit being allowed to drop from trees and rot on footpaths, alleyways and backyards, Sharing Abundance was developed to locate, harvest and maintain those trees and share the fruit equitably in the community.

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Juliette has a background in design, a Masters in ethical consumer behaviour and decision making. Her academic and project work has developed around mainstreaming and amplifying design solutions to cultural and social environmental problems. This is particularly demonstrated through the success and ongoing growth of The Clothing Exchange which Juliette was involved in from 2006 to 2011.

She teaches design stewardship, accountability, sustainability and marketing at RMIT. This year she will be launching a new course for design students arming them with the knowledge, communication tools and activism to challenge the current design culture of wastefulness to transform it into one of resourcefulness, innovation and resilience. Juliette has also taught at universities in Hobart and Newcastle.

In 2011 Juliette was celebrated as one of Melbourne’s top 100 creative, influential and interesting people by The Age. She is now focusing her time on growing Sharing Abundance across Australia.

Contact Juliette Anich at juliettte (at) sharingabundance.org

Services

Sharing Abundance offers 3 different ways to share fresh food.

1. Harvesting – When a landowner can’t keep up with the seasonal abundance of their fruit tree(s), they let us know and we mobilize our volunteers to pick the bounty and care for the tree. The harvest is split three ways: 1/3 is offered to the tree owner, 1/3 is shared among the volunteers, and 1/3 is delivered by bicycle to schools, aged care facilities and community kitchens in the local area.

2. Mapping – We map urban areas where fresh food can be collected on or over public land.

3. Signage – We design and distribute signage systems to manage the relationships between urban foragers and owners of trees so that a transparent, trusting partnership can be developed, fresh food can be shared and a mutual respect can be forged.

Click here to go to the facebook page and vote for Sharing abundance to win the local project grant funded by the bank of Melbourne