Commercial Kitchen and Community Cafe

- Community family friendly cafe, serving simple, traditional 'street food', using produce that is grown from the ECOSS biodynamic farm.

- Inviting marginalised cultural groups in the Yarra Valley area to prepare traditional food for Events at ECOSS.

- Joining chefs to mentor and create workshops with members of the local indigenous community, and the wider community to use bush foods in different culinary ways, which are locally harvested and grown at ECOSS.

- To provide jobs for the local community, and generate income that can go back into the running costs of the projects coming out of the cafe/kitchen.

The Yarra Valley is in desperate need of a warm sheltered community area to go, especially in the colder months, that is welcoming for all.

There has been a need expressed by Yarra Valley Bee Group, situated at ECOSS for a Commercial Kitchen, and an opportunity would be there for other members of the community to use the facility for workshops and events.

A cafe has been part of the plan to bring more visitors to the Ecological community centre, to provide simple healthy an open and comfortable destination for locals in one of the lowest income areas of Victoria.