“It made no sense that social enterprises would close ... you need those organisations more in a crisis,” Ms Scott said. “We mobilised at warp speed all of these chefs and cooks and gardeners to work on this integrated system.”
She co-ordinated a group of 80 organisations to form Moving Feast,
a coalition of social enterprises and charities focused on growing and cooking vegetarian and halal meals and preparing produce boxes for vegetarian and migrant communities.
Through Melbourne’s lockdowns,Moving Feast grew more than 60,000 food plants,packed more than 30,000 produce boxes and cooked more than 150,000 meals.
“We wanted to give a delicious group-hug to those doing it tough through the pandemic,” Ms Scott said. “Then we got to work dreaming about what to do next”.
The crisis created an opportunity for Moving Feast,and the collaboration is expected to continue.