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Category: The alt.food movement

The Community Food Movement: An alternative — the community food system

THE COMMUNITY FOOD MOVEMENT: Permaculture co-inventor, David Holmgren said that for most people the supermarket is their larder. Woolworths and Coles

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The Community Food Movement: What is the food system?

THE COMMUNITY FOOD MOVEMENT… A social movement around food is emerging in Australia, and what better place to start understanding it

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Local government reform necessary to urban agriculture’s future

It is time for reform of local government’s handling of community food initiatives on public land. It is time, too,

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The community gardens network: one of the fair food movement’s early organisations

Community gardeners — they're a community of practice long a part of the fair food movement in Australia…

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Needed: Simple, focused, tangible goals

The community food movement: a series about the emerging social movement around food… THE FAIR FOOD MOVEMENT is diverse and fractured.

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Farms — for agriculture or tourists?

SOMETIMES, you stumble on an interesting story by accident. A story that has some resonance with your own experience. A

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New software promises decentralised solution to buying food

Down Melbourne way they’re cooking up something interesting, innovative and digital when it comes to food... something that will create

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Defending civic agriculture

This article was written for the Australian City Farms & Community Gardens Network following criticism in February 2014 of community

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Council takes initiative in education for local growing

JENNIFER ALDEN, the Victorian food consultant, gave me the book just a few weeks ago — a little A5-size publication

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A journey, a conversation cafe, a garden

Some might call it preaching to the converted, my talk about the work of the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance with

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