Your suburb has food challenges.
You have the solution.
Submit ideas. Community votes. The best get selected, funded and built.
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Your Suburb.
Your Food System.
Marrickville residents ideate food solutions. Upvote your favourite. Top idea gets the chance to launch.
3 Ideas Competing Now
Vote for your favourite. The top idea gets the opportunity to launch in Marrickville.
Inner West Mushroom Co.
Gourmet mushroom farm using coffee grounds from Feedback Organic's cafe network
Refugee Kitchen Collective
Kitchen incubator supporting refugee and migrant women to launch food businesses
First Nations Bush Tucker Hub
Connecting Indigenous bush food growers to Sydney restaurants, supporting food sovereignty
How it works
Five steps. No committees. The timeline is the contract.
Ideate
Anyone in the suburb writes a one-page pitch. What is the problem, who does it serve, how much will it take to test? Pitches go live within 48 hours.
Vote
Community votes with one signal each, weighted by postcode proximity. Read, comment, question the proposer. The vote builds the shortlist.
Select
The top-voted ideas go under review. Feedback Organic selects the ones with legs and allocates [$X,XXX] in development funding to each. Criteria published up front.
Build
Selected ideas enter a ten-week build sprint with our community design team. Weekly standups posted publicly. Receipts up for everything billed.
Award & Scale
Builds wrap with a final pitch. One overall winner takes a [$X,XXX] cash prize. What works is documented as a kit and shared free with the next suburb.
From Your Neighbours
What happens when your suburb gets behind an idea
Stories from local participants
"I voted for the Marrickville Community Garden pitch. Six months later, I walk past it with my kids every day."
"Best thing I've done for my neighbourhood. I joined the build team and watched the cafe come together. Now it employs local kids every morning."
"I pitched the food hub idea. What I love is the transparency - I can see exactly how it's growing each month, how many families it serves."
The campaign, start to finish
A suburb-wide push. Local restaurants, pubs, and community partners all rally behind one question: which food security ideas deserve to get built?
Why Hyperlocal Matters
Every partner in Marrickville has a stake in solving food security. When the local pub, the corner cafe, major retailers, and community organizations all promote the same campaign, the entire suburb pays attention. This isn't top-down - it's bottom-up momentum at scale.