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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...
Continue reading...Organic buyers group offers a good crop
24. December 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Xmas comes in with a song at Randwick community garden
23. December 2009
CHRISTMAS TIME is celebration time at Randwick Organic Community Garden. Thanks to the efforts of the Arts in the Gardens team’s Mary O’Connell, this year’s celebrations featured Ecopella, an accapella group that took the audience through songs amusing, political and frivolous. The performance was followed by celebratory food that the gardeners had made themselves, fruit juices or [...]
Continue reading...Pedapods a new transport mode in Sydney city
23. December 2009
Traveling through Sydney city? Then why not Pedapod it?
Continue reading...Your coffee, sir… in a conventional or a bioplastic cup?
15. December 2009
Bioplastics appear to be a solution to some of our waste challenges, but do they offer new challenges in their place?...
Continue reading...Depot roof becomes power station in Randwick
27. November 2009
The new photovoltaic array on the roof of Randwick City Council's depot is just one of Council's sustainability initiatives...
Continue reading...Participatory planning the theme of local group meeting
25. November 2009
IN SYDNEY'S EASTERN SUBURBS, where plans are underway to develop a sustainability education hub at a community centre, a local permaculture group joined in a participatory process to develop ideas for a permaculture interpretive garden...
Continue reading...Simple solutions encourage locals to leave their car at home
25. November 2009
Simple solutions are often all that is needed to encourage people to leave the car in the garage...
Continue reading...One year later… and a community garden blooms
24. November 2009
IT'S GOOD TO SEE A PROJECT you have worked on come to fruition. That was the feeling as Kogarah City Council's Mayor, General Manager and other staff and gardeners officially opened the Carrs Park Community Garden. Faith Thomas and I started work on the project a little over a year ago...
Continue reading...Water harvesting – an idea catching on
15. November 2009
Take a walk to Manly Art Gallery, then take a walk to some of Bunnings hardware stores. Now, ask yourself — what did you see that is the same?...
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- Why is Food Connect taking off?
- Policy related documents
- Mark Diesendorf — from academia to climate action campaigner
- Something new, something edible this way comes
- Lawson residents ready to garden as community
- ORID - strategic questioning that gets you to a decision
- Open for business - Food Connect Sydney starts-up
- An edible garden for Eastern Suburbs apartment dwellers
- admin: Response to Terry Leahy... Thanks for your comm...
- Antonia Vorner: Thank you Russ Grayson for this discussion paper,...
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- admin: Thanks for the good news about Food Connect Melbou...
- doron francis: Great article! Yes Food Connect is spreading. CERE...
- Why is Food Connect taking off?
- In Adelaide and Sydney, a tasty future beckons
- Plains To Plate signals arrival of food as sustainability issue
- Participatory planning the theme of local group meeting
- One year later… and a community garden blooms
- Food Summit hands declaration on food futures to NSW Parliament
Upcoming events
From Plains to Plate…
the Future of Food in South Australia South Australian Food Convergence
February 2010
More details on the Food Convergence, including details on how you or your organisation can get involved will be available soon. Check back regularly, or email us for more details.
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27. December 2009
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