About Us

Our Mission

Steeped in the values of the CWA, utilizing old wisdom and new knowledge to grow, share and feed our community.

Bringing sustainable local grown foods for the community whilst nurturing our environment and valuing those who attempt to find this balance within the constraints

of our society.

Our Hopes

A connection for small local seasonal producers/excess produce to be available for all.
A space where excess produce can be preserved and up cycled for the community to access.
Minimal packaging and bulk items accessed with least carbon footprint to provide basic larder items, with a minimal waste/bring your own container ethos.
A learning space for old and new skills to be shared in small groups i.e pasta making, sugo making, sewing lesson, knitting.
A learning space where growers/small business ideas can directly interact and
evolve with the community for a common goal of fresh, healthy local foods.
A place to connect and support our whole community.

Our Plan

The business is a self-sustaining social enterprise, where the CWA building will provide a commercial kitchen, a shop front, public liability, manager, and daily

running/maintenance costs to enable the whole community access to produce/products which support community health.

The structure will be much like a market, whereby vendors can buy space to sell items, but will not be required to be onsite to sell the items. To be independent and sustainable the social enterprise will receive income from rental of the commercial kitchen space, retail space, small groups and local memberships to cover the ongoing running costs and reimburse shop coordinator for

their valuable time.

Why we are starting Marmalade Witchy

We had the privilege of spending our childhoods in loving families and small

supportive communities, which were deeply connected to the cycle of life, intricately

noticing seasons, growth flora and fauna and the interconnect, and the extended

family of the community who helped raise and educate us. Instilling the knowledge

that we were part of these cycles and could heavily influence these cycles, and much

can be learnt from the wisdom of nature.

For Narelle’s the centre of the community was a Co-op where we all got our supplies

and shared produce, shared stories, supported those who needed it and developed

the wisdom that everyone benefits when giving and kindness is the central values.

Launching a career in health and thirty years later she has experienced birth, death,

raw joy, tragedy, sadness and observed the slow disconnect to community and our

environment. As she continues to work in this space and see mental ill-health,

sadness and loneliness overwhelm our system. It is realized and seen that

reconnecting our community, being active, feeding ourselves and our surrounding

with good food, love and joy whoever you are, is the only way to thrive.

So, drawing on our life experience and dreams, the luck that has landed us in

Witchcliffe, which has the strong feel of environmental connect and community, I feel

the time is right to share our dream and create a local produce hub which breathes

our ethos of a connected life.

How you can be involved?

Bring your excess produce to sell/swap to Marmalade.
Be a vendor where you have space to sell your own produce/product.
Hire the kitchen to value add to excess produce and sell.
Become a local member, where you can access larder items and local produce
at a cost-plus price, and a discount on other products as directed by individual
vendors.
Come and sit on the couch, have a chat and be.

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