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News from Plains To Plate and the foodfolk in Adelaide
The recent months have continued to see growing interest in the necessity of building a just and sustainable food system... read more news from South Australia...
Continue reading...Time to stop Big Coal gobbling up the Liverpool Plains foodlands
20. July 2010
Please help us to save the Liverpool Plains... the Liverpool Plains is an extremely important foodbowl of Australia but at the moment it is being explored for coal and coal seam gas...
Continue reading...Farmers of the urban footpath & the need for design guidelines for street verge gardens
16. July 2010
It's happened suddenly — the upsurge of interest in gardening the street verge with edible plants. But before we rush out to replace nature strip lawn with vegetables, there's a few design considerations we would do well to take into account...
Continue reading...A food policy for our common future
15. July 2010
Growcom wants one. So does the Public Health Association of Australia and sustainable agriculture expert at the University of Sydney, Bill Billotti. A national food policy, it seems, is something of a catchy idea. But what kind of policy are we talking about?
Continue reading...How to feed 3 adults for 20 dollars and help local farms
5. July 2010
REBECCA MORGAN is the “hands and heart” behind Courmand du Morgan, a company that prepares gourmet locally-sourced meals and delivers them to your door step...
Continue reading...Great conference, good people… but this is Tasmania after all
19. May 2010
A speaking engagement at a conference leads to an edible tour of the island state, the gem of the Southern Ocean...
Continue reading...MEDIA RELEASE: New opportunity in fresh food-Food Connect comes to Randwick
15. April 2010
Food Connect Sydney's City Cousin in the Eastern Suburbs has received support from Randwick Council. Here is a media release I edited and distributed to Eastern Suburbs media on behalf of Food Connect Sydney...
Continue reading...Food Connect throws its growing weight behind commemoration
15. April 2010
Australia's Food Connect Foundation is joining La Via Campesina worldwide to commemorate the International Day of Peasant Struggle on April 17 and to show their support for small farmers the world over, Australia included...
Continue reading...Declaration on food: Sydney Food Fairness Alliance
14. April 2010
Two declarations on the future of our food systems have been released in the past six months. This is the Declaration of the Sydney Food Fairness Alliance's Hungry for Change Food Summit of October 2009...
Continue reading...Declaration on Food: Plains To Plate
14. April 2010
Two declarations on the future of our food systems have been released in the past six months. This is the Declaration of the Plains To Plate food convergence that took place in Adealide, South Australia, in February 2010...
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- The Trainer papers... 4
- The Trainer papers... 1
- Why is Food Connect taking off?
- Food Summit hands declaration on food futures to NSW Parliament
- An edible garden for Eastern Suburbs apartment dwellers
- Policy related documents
- Mark Diesendorf — from academia to climate action campaigner
- Something new, something edible this way comes
- Rosemary's retrofit a good home forever
- Lawson residents ready to garden as community
- 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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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…
2. August 2010
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