After community in Buderim on Queensland's Sunshine Coast have literally turned their nature strips into an organic food bowl.Eleven streets of neighbours are growing food without chemicals and better yet, their plants are actually taking chemicals from the air around their homes and making their streets healthier.
This Buderim Urban Food Street is now a place to meet, work together and share food, community and growth. The food footprint includes an incredible abundance of food: figs, olives, licensed bananas and custard apples, mangoes, mulberries, tropical peaches, tropical apples, pomegranates, persimmons, tomatoes, tree tomatoes, avocados, paw paws, dragon fruit, lettuce, cabbages, melons, ginger, turmeric and a range of every day culinary kitchen herbs. Each year the streets literally produce hundreds of kilos of fruit and vegetables.
If you are interested in knowing more about Buderim's Urban Food Street and don't live within our neighbourhood, they host an urban walk four times a year. The numbers are limited to 15 each walk. Dates for 2016 will be released shortly on Urban Food Street.Photos: Urban Food Street