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WHILE on a trip to Canberra, Susanna McPherson dropped into a farmgate store.<\/p>\n

Loving the way it operated, supporting the area\u2019s food producers and getting healthy, fresh, local ingredients to family tables, she was inspired to launch a similar initiative once she returned home to Gordon.<\/p>\n

Encouraging residents to back the idea, a strong core committee of community members came together. Now known as not-for-profit Gordon Farmgate, they\u2019re champions of farmers and food brands within a 60-kilometre radius of the township, set to sell their products online and in-store.<\/p>\n

Amanda Watters is the initiative\u2019s management committee secretary, volunteer coordinator, and more recently the manager of the Gordon Farmgate shopfront, opening soon beside Gordon Bleu on the corner of Main and Russell streets.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the next two weeks, we\u2019re hoping to launch our online click-and-collect shop. The producer will get the order and deliver the products to the shop for collection,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the shop\u2019s open, the online store will still run, but people will be able to come in to browse and buy during our opening hours, which will be limited as we\u2019re volunteers, and want to fit in with Gordon Bleu traffic.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the moment, we\u2019re sticking with simplicity because we\u2019re small. We\u2019ll start with one producer per item; so one egg producer, one pork producer, one honey producer for example.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gordon Farmgate will stock Big Jim\u2019s Chilli Co, Egg-erton Free Range Eggs, Enbom Honeys, Goldfields Farmhouse Cheese, Hendersons Lane beef and lamb, Karon Farm Coffee, Kucina Estate Garlic, Loganberry Forest seeds and seedlings, Sunny Patch Produce vegetables, The Farming Mums seasonal produce, The Fermentary, and The Harvest and Co mushrooms.<\/p>\n

Ms Watters said the caf\u00e9-adjacent location of the shop means people can enjoy a coffee in the morning, or a wine in the evening, then drop by the Farmgate for essentials.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will hopefully bring more people to town, and get local and tourist traffic to visit all of Gordon\u2019s shops while they\u2019re here, like Whole Wattle Love, the Hat Shoppe, the trout farm, and our B&Bs.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s all about community spirit and supporting those who are here. People can walk down, get the meat or eggs they need, rather than going to Ballarat or Ballan,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cEnvironmentally speaking, it reduces the food\u2019s footprint which is really important. Grab a coffee, stop to chat, and come and see who we are.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last weekend, volunteers attended a working bee to develop a vegetable patch and herb garden out the front of the shop.<\/p>\n

In the next few weeks, Ms Watters expects the space to be all painted, cleaned and fitted out with fridges.<\/p>\n

She encourages people to get in touch if they have old wooden produce crates they would be willing to donate, or if they would like to become a volunteer shop-runner.<\/p>\n

Visit facebook.com\/gordonfarmgate<\/strong><\/a> or instagram.com\/gordon_farmgate<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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