Archive | November, 2009
Open for business – Food Connect Sydney starts-up
FOOD CONNECT SYDNEY is a new community food enterprise bringing fresh, tasty foods to city eaters. Its opening comes as an organisation is created to facilitate the spread of the Food Connect model Australia-wide...
Continue reading...Depot roof becomes power station in Randwick
27. November 2009
The new photovoltaic array on the roof of Randwick City Council's depot is just one of Council's sustainability initiatives...
Continue reading...Participatory planning the theme of local group meeting
25. November 2009
IN SYDNEY'S EASTERN SUBURBS, where plans are underway to develop a sustainability education hub at a community centre, a local permaculture group joined in a participatory process to develop ideas for a permaculture interpretive garden...
Continue reading...Simple solutions encourage locals to leave their car at home
25. November 2009
Simple solutions are often all that is needed to encourage people to leave the car in the garage...
Continue reading...One year later… and a community garden blooms
24. November 2009
IT'S GOOD TO SEE A PROJECT you have worked on come to fruition. That was the feeling as Kogarah City Council's Mayor, General Manager and other staff and gardeners officially opened the Carrs Park Community Garden. Faith Thomas and I started work on the project a little over a year ago...
Continue reading...Saturdays at Salamanca
24. November 2009
SATURDAYS AT SALAMANCA Place are crowded and busy... locals rub shoulders with visitors as they crowd the alleys of Salamanca Market to find local food, local arts and crafts, photography, seeds, fresh fruit and vegetables, soft and sweet Bruny Island fudge, Gillespie's fizzy ginger beer...
Continue reading...Local a selling point at Evandale
24. November 2009
FOOD GROWN LOCALLYseems to be something of a specialty at Evandale Market. A recent visit disclosed sign after sign on a number of stalls advertising the localism of fresh vegetables, herbs and fruit...
Continue reading...Food Summit hands declaration on food futures to NSW Parliament
20. November 2009
AROUND A DOZEN PEOPLE are walking the long, straight footway through Hyde Park where the lines of overaching native figs form a vegetative tunnel. They enter Macquarie Street and make their way to an old sandstone building with a long verandah. Here, they are to hand over the state’s first Declaration on Food...
Continue reading...Water harvesting – an idea catching on
15. November 2009
Take a walk to Manly Art Gallery, then take a walk to some of Bunnings hardware stores. Now, ask yourself — what did you see that is the same?...
Continue reading...Reserved parking aims to encourage car share, hybrids
15. November 2009
When you park in Randwick, just watch out where you park...
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- The Trainer papers... 4
- The Trainer papers... 1
- Why is Food Connect taking off?
- An edible garden for Eastern Suburbs apartment dwellers
- Food Summit hands declaration on food futures to NSW Parliament
- Policy related documents
- Mark Diesendorf — from academia to climate action campaigner
- Something new, something edible this way comes
- Open for business - Food Connect Sydney starts-up
- Rosemary's retrofit a good home forever
- Yvonne Gluyas: Yes, it WAS 'Barricades"!!! Now I remember that so...
- alfredo zotti: Dr Bob Rich has given some valuable feedback on my...
- alfredo zotti: I would like to add a correction here. My wife mis...
- Merilyn Thomas: Today I was waiting for my son to have an MRI in T...
- Jane Logan: Hi Russ I am doing an assignment for uni (I am st...
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From Plains to Plate…
You can participate in the Future of Food website
The Plains To Plate website was set up as the communications hub for the Plains To Plate Future of Food conference in Adelaide earlier this year and continues as a service linking food system aficionados around Australia.
Why not visit your food friends and join the conversation…
27. November 2009
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