MEAL - Well Fed & Ferments

Hello international students and welcome to Well Fed & Ferments at the Study Melbourne Hub!

Just Food Collective's Well Fed: A Student Food Project is joining up with Farm to Ferment and Study Melbourne in 2026 to provide you with free delicious meals, followed by a series of amazing fermenting workshops led by master fermenter Patrick Pickle.

Come for the food and stay for the.. well, food!

What are you even waiting for? Register now and enjoy a free nourishing meal, grocery bag, a chance to hang out, AND a fermentation workshop where you'll be able to take home a jar of ferments you've made! 🤯🤯

Lunch registration is via this page.

You must register separately for the fermentation workshops as numbers are limited, register here!

What food will be at Well Fed & Ferments?
We like to switch up our menus every week —we are passionate and food obsessed after all! And we like to focus on food that is nourishing, vegetable forward, diverse and inclusive to dietary restrictions where possible.

Each week we will have a culturally themed menu with corresponding ferment. Here we can learn something about ourselves, one another and celebrate our commonalities and what makes us unique! You can check out our recipe page to see some meals we've made before. 

As for the workshops?

You’ll be the talk of the town with your alchemical creations from the workshops. Fermentation is not only fun and magical, but also a fantastic way to preserve food, and a great way to get creative with flavour in the kitchen. Not to mention fermented foods are alive and probiotic. Therefore, they nourish your gut which is directly linked to your brain capacity, so think of it as study without cramming at your desk.

We employ student interns and have amazing volunteers working with us too to help prepare your food. Well Fed is like coming to a free cafe, hanging out with your friends and making new ones, and importantly eating great food! We will also have grocery items like fresh fruit and veg and pantry staples. 

When are the Well Fed & Ferments meals?
The dates in 2026 are: April 10, May 1, May 22, July 31, and September 4th.
Meals start at 1pm and end at 2:30pm, come anytime within that window.

Fermentation workshops will follow directly after, but spaces are limited. Please register separately here. We will only have a few tickets available to hand out on the day - so don't wait!

Sustainability

To limit food waste and so other students don't miss out, please cancel your ticket 24 hours prior if you are unable to come!
We also LOVE when students bring their own reusable shopping bags for Well Fed groceries, reusable tupperware for their meals, and jars for their ferments - looking after each other means the looking after the environment too! ❤️

So come eat with us! Give us a follow on our Instagram, or reach out to us at hello@justfood.org.au if you want to volunteer or need more information 🙂