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Farewell checkout chick — hello machine

3. March 2010

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Supermarkets may offer the chance to interact with a machine rather than with a human...

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Apartment lawn to food in Maroubra

27. February 2010

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Apartment lawn to food in Maroubra

In Maroubra, Kimberley has turned her apartment block's lawn into food...

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Dilemma: Two community food systems — which to choose?

23. February 2010

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Dilemma: Two community food systems — which to choose?

Here's the dilemma for Sydney City East good food eaters: which food system do you choose? Organic Buyers Group Randwick of Food Connect Sydney?

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Why is Food Connect taking off?

22. February 2010

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Why is Food Connect taking off?

What is it that lies behind the rapid replication of Food Connect? Is it just good food, shorter links between farmer and eater... or is it something a little bit stickier?

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In Adelaide and Sydney, a tasty future beckons

22. February 2010

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In Adelaide and Sydney, a tasty future beckons

Food Connect has made a start in Adelaide and Sydney...

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Plains To Plate signals arrival of food as sustainability issue

22. February 2010

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Plains To Plate signals arrival of food as sustainability issue

Adelaide's Plains To Plate Food Convergence signals that food has arrived as a social, community and sustainability issue...

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Achacha a South American fruit marketed to Sydney eaters

24. January 2010

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Achacha a South American fruit marketed to Sydney eaters

A new fruit now being marketed to Sydney eaters is Achacha (Garcinia humulis), a native of the Bolivian Amazon...

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Serendipitous encounters on a drizzly summer morning

4. January 2010

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Serendipitous encounters on a drizzly summer morning

It's sort of strange how a relaxing walk in the morning drizzle can lead to encounters of the vergetative kind...

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An edible garden for Eastern Suburbs apartment dwellers

27. December 2009

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An edible garden for Eastern Suburbs apartment dwellers

The days when most people had a house and garden are gone. If cities are to feed themselves, then attention will have to move towards food production on apartment common land. In Sydney's Eastern Suburbs, a small apartment block in Randwick has taken its first step towards sustainability by starting a food garden...

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Organic buyers group offers a good crop

24. December 2009

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Organic buyers group offers a good crop

IT’S MONDAY EVENING and we’re at a School in Randwick to collect our first box of vegetables from Sydney Organic Buyers Group, Randwick. We walk into a busy scene. People are taking fruit and vegetables from boxes and counting them into large shopping baskets arrayed across the floor. These contain the foods that make up the [...]

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