About
The VEIL food map is an online, urban food production map of Melbourne. It is a project of the Victorian Eco-Innovation Lab (VEIL): www.ecoinnovationlab.com. VEIL is supported by the Victorian government through the Sustainability Fund.
The purpose of the VEIL food map is to:
- Record the quantity & variety of urban food production present within Melbourne
- Encourage Melbournians to contribute data to this site
- Act as a database for people to base the design of new products & services towards greater sustainability in Melbourne
- Provide evidence that urban food production currently exists within Melbourne in order to foster greater policy support of this industry
The type of produce to be recorded on this web site is food that is primary produce, ie. fresh & not value-added/ processed, which are predominately larger than household production. Examples of urban food production include: community gardens, commercial production and market gardens, shared private gardens, and food produced on public space.
Project coordinator and site moderator: Ferne Edwards
Site webmaster: Simon D'Alfonso
VEIL Director: Chris Ryan