VEIL’s report, Food Sensitive Planning and Urban Design, is a source of ideas for planners and local government that would creatively integrate food production and distribution into our cities…

Architect and writer, Carolyn Steel, knows a thing or two about food, its history and politics. These she shared at a talk one rainy night at UNSW…

Sydney’s inner west/central city area gets its own food swap…

Amid an over-abundance of food, conviviality and good ideas, Sydney Food Connect has celebrated its birthday. Sydney Food Connect is a social enterprise—a business that has social goals—and that gives it a value that run-of-the-mill food businesses don’t have. Obtaining your food through Food Connect is a substantially more rewarding experience than tramping back and forth along the long aisles of the supermarket…

It’s happened suddenly — the upsurge of interest in gardening the street verge with edible plants. But before we rush out to replace our nature strip lawn with vegetables, there’s a few design considerations we would do well to take into account…

So what is an Urban Orchard? It’s a food swap. You grow too many lemons, so why not swap them for other edibles at your Urban Orchard market. It’s about the power of bartering… apples for asparagus, carrots for capsicum…

Citizens, community organisations, small farmers, food advocacy and eduction organisations, heath interests, small business and social enterprise working in food production, distribution and waste management have a new voice in Australia now that the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) has taken steps to set itself up as a formal agency…