Projects
We love to Share Create Innovate. We find organisations, communities and businesses that we love, work and partner with to find personalised solutions. These are some of the many initiatives we have engaged with.
​JANA NGALEE LALC - Food Security and Community Gardens
Working towards food security with the Malabugilmah Community by building community gardens.
Caring for Catchment Successfully Funded Projects
Project Type: Combined On-ground & Education
Funding: $44,496.72
This project aims to empower landholders to adopt regenerative practices and restore riparian areas in the Chaffin Creek catchment. Through workshops, education, and community engagement, the project will enhance catchment health, flood resilience, and biodiversity. By sharing knowledge and skills, the project will enable landholders to implement these practices on their own properties, leading to long-term environmental benefits.
Chaffin Creek Farm Workshop: Grow a Food Forest. Empowering Regenerative Practices.
Participants gained practical skills in regenerative farming, including soil health, water conservation, and sustainable crop production. The workshop fostered a strong community of like-minded individuals passionate about food security and sustainability. Led by Syntropic Solutions experts, it offered in-depth knowledge and hands-on experience in creating and maintaining a Food Forest, with impactful discussions on challenges and solutions for community resilience.
BOWABIRDS
Project Manager and Grant Writer. BOWABIRDS is a multidisciplinary design agency, delivery partner and community of practice, committed to supporting our clients to achieve their dreams through partnerships built on reciprocity and collective action.
Dedicated to life-long learning and implementing co-designed, best practice in enterprise, business, corporations and communities and work with those who are committed to solving the big issues and leading in leading edge and syntropic ways.
Bin Trim Networks Program
EPA / Bin Trim Rounds 1 - 3 Delivery in Northern Rivers. Share Create Innovate engaged Over 600 businesses in CV in waste audits and reduction
Jan 2016 - Jan 2020
Contracted by NORTH EAST WASTE, THE DIVERTER, COOL PLANET.
Circular Economy Research, Content Creation, Education, Training and Assessments, Education, Partnerships.
https://www.epa.nsw.gov.au/
https://www.newaste.org.au/
https://www.coolplanet.com.au/
https://www.thediverter.com.au/about-us
Share Create Innovate Makes PLASTIC BAG FREE YAMBA
Share Create Innovate's campaign to remove plastic bags from Yamba, Northern NSW and Coffs Central, Coffs Harbour. The Little Green Bag (paper bag alternative) and Boomerang Bags, have allowed businesses to transition from plastic.
Clarence Correctional Center produce bags from material destined for landfill
https://boomerangbags.org/
https://www.serco.com/aspac/sites/clarence-correctional-centre
Chaffin Creek Farm - Regenerative Farming. Food Security, Community Connection and Education
2019 Current. We Regenerate land, grow food and provide education for biodynamics and syntropic agroforestry.
Regenerative farming is an approach that focuses on restoring and enhancing the health of the soil, ecosystems, and farming practices. It goes beyond sustainable farming by actively working to regenerate and improve the land, rather than simply minimising harm or maintaining the status quo.
The key principles: Soil health, biodiversity, water management and carbon sequestration.
Food Boxes - Food Security
2021 - Access to local chemical free food. Every week providing food boxes to our community. Food grown at Chaffin Creek Farm and from other local farmers. Supporting local farmers and connecting community to where food comes from, builds food security for our region.
Fire to Flourish -Monash University
Fire to Flourish - Community Co Designer
A new model of community-led funding in Clarence Valley
Fire to Flourish is a unique research program that uses a community-led, strengths-based
approach to build resilience to disaster. A Monash University project, that will help make Clarence Valley stronger, more connected and better resourced for the future.
‘Surfing the Coldstream’ Festival. The Institute for Sustainable Futures. The University of Technology Sydney
The Love Food Hate Waste: Food Festivals and Farmers’ Markets project aims to reduce the amount of avoidable food waste currently being discarded at festivals and markets in NSW. The project set out to achieve this by first engaging organisers and stallholders of farmers markets to understand the opportunities and challenges to reducing avoidable food waste and producing a suite of education resources.
Your Business is Food - A Love Food, Hate Waste Initiative
Food loss prevention
1. Prevention
Prevent edible food from going in any bin (strategies include prevention of plate waste, over ordering, spoilage, damage etc)
2. Repurpose
Donate surplus food to a food donation agency
3. Divert
Recycle food waste into animal feed or compost
As an auxiliary project, Share Create Innovate/ Chaffin Creek Farm created a composting / worm farming operation to pick up food scraps that CVC could not handle, this was funded by the EPA.
Circular Cafes
Circular Cafes is an industry based approach to building and supporting the circular economy in the Northern Rivers. Our aim is to work as a powerful collective to significantly influence how business is done in our region. Helping to redefine the current business model, to one that reaps the benefits of a regenerative circular economy. Share Create Innovate implemented the program in 50 of the total 100 businesses. https://circularcafes.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/CC-Impact-report.pdf
Feast in the Field
The Feast in the Field is an annual festival, celebrating the Clarence Valley's local, organic and native farmers and producers. The event connects local chefs, cafe and restaurant owners with farmers, and provides education for the public with the intention to develop and secure the local food economy. The theme of this year's feast is "What goes on inside the farm gate - seed to flower, nose to tail - creating the taste on the plate
Less Waste, More Food with Thermomix®
Multi-award winning cookbook in the Australian Gourmand Cookbook Awards 2022. An official Thermomix® cookbook, Less Waste is a guide to enriching and enjoying a new low impact approach to food.
You’ll find expert tips on how to deck out a low-waste kitchen, how to plan your pantry and shop and grow in season. We have even included sections on how to compost, no matter the space you have at hand, and setting up a ‘G-I-Y’ (Grow It Yourself garden, veggie patch or series of pots).
The Regenerative Agriculture Mentoring Program (RAMP)
The RAMP aims to facilitate and support farmers to make the transformational change from traditional to regenerative agricultural principles and practices. Overall, the program aims to reduce the human-induced impacts of climate change through utilising environmental education in the agricultural industry as a critical enabler in transformative principle and practice change to significantly shift our future paradigm.
Waste Warriors for Business - North East Waste
North East Waste's Business Waste Reduction Program and supports businesses on council's behalf to reduce waste disposed to landfill in the Northern Rivers region. Share Create Innovate implemented this program into the Clarence Valley
POWER 30: Clarence Valley's Most Influential 2018
Power 30: The Clarence Valley's most influential people - I was #27 OF 30. Daily Examiner.
Mororo Mandies - Value Adding to Food
As part of Chaffin Creek Farm operations, we manage an orchid in Mororo, Northern NSW. Share Create Innovate created marmalade and cordial to value add to the operation. This is sold in a ariety of stores throughout the Clarence Valley
​Living Smart, Course FacilitatorCourse Facilitator.
Living Smart is a multi award winning behaviour change program. The course provides participants with the skills and knowledge to take action in their own homes to improve their quality of life and reduce their environmental impact.
North East Waste
North East Waste works across the seven Councils in the Northern Rivers. They are funded primarily through the Environmental Protection Agency.
Share. Create. Innovate has worked with North East Waste on a number of projects such as circular economy research, content creation, assessments, bin trim, waste warriors, events, projects, training, education, business partnerships.
A successful implementer of bin trim, love food hate waste, your business is food and waste warriors for business. Share Create Innovate had significantly reduced resources to landfill over the 5 years working with North East Waste. From individual business owners to festivals, markets, we have brought business, universities, government and community together to reduce our footprint in Yamba.
Boomerang Bags
This project diverts textile waste from landfill, engages the community in the issue of plastic pollution, and gives people a call to action; sewing, bag use, or donating materials.
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Expansion of this project has seen tonnes of fabric headed to landfill diverted. We collect and work with curtain manufacturers' textile waste, at the Clarence Correction Centre, as part of our “ReGrowth” program for women in minimum security. Sewing skills are taught and Boomerang Bags are produced.
University of Technology Sydney
As a lecturer, I taught Corporate Responsibility and life design for purpose. I helped mainly business and law students see the unintended consequences and intensional blindness of capitalism in opposition to human and planetary rights, helping prepare them when they entered the workforce. We worked on creating a purposeful life that aimed to solve an environmental or social issue.
Serco
Woking with Clarence Correctional Centre we have created a variety of projects, based on people, planet and purpose, to empower program participants and reduce recidivism. Projects are based on creating environmental and social solutions. Participants learn valuable skills that provide personal transformation and assist with the transition back into society and create pathways to employment.
Serco had an objective to engage with local industry and we created pathways that help local .
Partnerships Include
Welcome To Yamba
A Collaboration with Cate Mquillian, Producer of ABC's Dirtgirlworld and Get Grubby TV. Me Me Me Productions and Share Create Innovate have teamed up to create an environmental communication model for your town.
Welcome to Yamba provides a framework to welcome and connect with visitors and share what they need to know when coming to your town.
Yaegl
Ongoing
Working with Yaegl elders has been some of the deepest learning we have had. It has broadened our scope into more of a humanitarian space, seeing how we can include and learn from the first people. Opening our eyes and hearts, making us reassess our business mindset and what it means to be so privileged. How our basic societal norms disadvantage so many and how we can help close the gap. They are our trusted advisors and dear friends. We are their hands and feet.
EcoBag Media
Share Create Innovate created the campaign, project, and delivery of a Plastic Bag Free Yamba. This collaborative project allows businesses to share advertising space on a paper bag as an alternative to plastic. This practical, purpose-driven medium, engages people in the problem, giving an innovative solution to plastic pollution. The strategy and implemented solutions have further developed into the Little Green Bag to maintain a plastic bag free town.
Life Cykle
Share Create Innovate has negotiated strategic partnerships and project modelling for LikeCykle. LifeCykel is an evolutionary, focused, mycelium, biotechnology company that engineers positive solutions to real world problems. They are visionary in their real world solutions to the changing economy, farming, and resource depletion.
Chamber of Commerce President
During this time as President, Gina created a strategic plan, working groups, increased membership, operationalised, built relationships with government, business, community, tourism, and industry.
Centre for Sustainability Leadership
The Fellowship Program curriculum is underpinned by key competencies that have been identified as fundamental skills for successfully addressing the challenges faced by leaders who are tasked with facilitating the emergence of a sustainable future.
Writing
Content creation for media houses. Mainstream readership. Groundbreaking topics. Mass distribution.
Clarence Valley Council
Relationships are everything. Clarence Valley Council has been a constant support and asset to local projects. We have worked together on a variety of business, environmental, and community initiatives. Gina sits on the industry roundtable working group for the Clarence Valley.
School for Social Entrepreneurs
As a lecturer, Gina taught Corporate Responsibility and life design for purpose. She helped mainly business and law students see the unintended consequences and intensional blindness of capitalism in opposition to human and planetary rights, helping prepare them when they entered the workforce. We worked on creating a purposeful like that aimed to solve an environmental or social issue.
Who Gives a Crap
Providing over 250,000 weeks of toilets for people in need, 50% of profits going to water aid.
Yamba Farmers Markets
Market Manager. Building food security by localising food systems. Regional food networking. Business education and connection to farmers. Localising menus. Long table local food events. Communications and social.
B Alternative
As a Co Founder and now a distribution partner for reusables and compostable packaging, we have done everything from strategy to events and waste management together. B Alternative provides practical eco-friendly solutions to everyday living. Our core pillars: Education, Waste Reduction and Earth Friendly Products
Waste Consultancy
We work in psychology and behaviour change and see waste as a cultural issue. We help your organisation change, resulting in lower costs for the business pocket and the planet.
We have consulted with thousands of businesses and worked with a variety of EPA-funded organisations to implement this. We have reduced waste to landfill by almost 20% across Yamba and to a lesser extent the Clarence Valley.
We have implemented the Local Council’s Organic Waste collection service (FOGO) in Yamba and Maclean.
Franki & Bee
Handmade skin food from both local and chemical-free products. Sold locally. Featured in Peppermint Magazine
Yamba, A Plastic Bag Free Town
Developing alternatives and behavioural change around bringing your own bag. We did this with the development of the Eco Bag and now the Little Green Bag, and Boomerang Bags a reusable textile bag using fabrics that were destined to landfill.
Local Food
Working with businesses to increase their local and ethically sourced food. Reegenetibly farming cattle and eggs at Chaffin Creek Farm, selling to local businesses and consumers.
Waste Management
Commercial worm farms for businesses. Reducing food headed to landfill reduces methane. Building the soil health and sequestering carbon is integrated into the organic waste and egenerative farming system we facilitate.
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Dirtgirlworld
One of our favourite partners; dirtgirlworld and get grubby TV, feature dirtgirl and ABC’s Gardening Australia’s host, Costa’s Georgiadis. Creators Cate Mcqillian and Hewey Eustace of MeMeMe Productions are pillars of the Clarence Valley Community. We have worked over the last 5 years on a variety of projects, events, strategies, and initiatives that reduce waste, create community cohesion, and help businesses and or community move toward reducing their impact. We love playing in this space together, our current favourite project is Welcome to Yamba, a model for business and community to engage with visitors and help them live like a local. This is a framework that can be implemented in your town!
Ulmarra Food Co
Tackling food security, the lack of local regeneratively grown food, and working with businesses to increase their local and ethically sourced food.
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This shopfront and online store allows the community access to local food, working with a variety of local and ethical growers.
The Little Green Bag
The Little Green Bag a durable, reusable, compostable, recyclable, bio-ink printed, worm farm friendly, alternative to plastic bags.
Yamba's local solution to the global problem of single use plastic, whilst supporting our local businesses and organisations. Wiping plastic bags out one at a time, reducing landfill, supporting recycling, closing the consumption loop, setting an example for other towns.
Living Sustainability Award Winner
2024 Clarence Valley Council. Business Category Award Winner for Environmental and Community Leadership. Making Yamba Plastic Bag Free and Community Activation
Rural Women's Award - Diversity Outreach
The Share, Create, Innovate Project conducted a Stakeholder Mapping initiative to identify diverse communities across Australia and connect with women leaders within these groups. The objective was to encourage and increase the participation of women from these communities in applying for the AgriFutures Rural Women's Award.