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Saturdays at Salamanca
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...Solitary, long ago
28. September 2009
Story & photos: Russ Grayson IT’S PERVERSE, REALLY. To walk these mountains you start by descending rather than climbing. The reason is that the Blue Mountains do not rise from a plain to culminate in high ridges and peaks. They are a plateau formed when the earth here uplifted millions of years ago. The Blue Mountains are [...]
Continue reading...Less a town than a landscape
22. September 2009
It's not the town, its the landscape it is set in that gives the Byron region its spectacular character. This I was taught by a sea eagle and by quietness as I gazed over coast and ocean to a northern horizon bounded by mountains...
Continue reading...City in memory
29. December 2008
We inhabit our own geographies... geographies formed by patterns of movement from home to work, from home to our recreational haunts or to the homes of friends. But geographies remembered and real do not always accord...
Continue reading...Small town off the highway
28. December 2008
Wauchope, a minor country town off the highway.
Continue reading...Vignettes of Launceston
9. March 2008
Vignettes of Launceston, a small city on a wide muddy river where the past collides with the future and distant views trigger memories...
Continue reading...Hidden path to a cove’s history
27. August 2007
The old shacks at Crater Cove are a reminder of the days when life was somehow simpler and our needs fewer. They housed an eclectic group of people...
Continue reading...Byron Bay — discovered and rediscovered
13. September 2006
The first time I saw it, the North Coast lay inspiring and revealed from my vantage point part way down a steep, winding road that took me to the coastal plain below...
Continue reading...The Byron Bay blues
3. August 2006
Too many too often — that's what some say about tourists in the idyllic — or maybe not-so-idyllic — Byron Bay...
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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.
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24. November 2009
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