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Council to trial small-scale wind turbine
A Sydney council is to trial wind as local energy source...
Continue reading...An edible garden for Eastern Suburbs apartment dwellers
27. December 2009
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...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...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...Planning and good design feed an urban family
26. August 2009
In this 1999 article, Fiona Campbell describes the process of designing, constructing and planting her home garden not far from the shores of Botany Bay...
Continue reading...Collaboration, participation build something new on something old
18. August 2009
At Carrs Park, participatory planning and construction, cooperation between citizens and council and collaboration are creating a new community garden and outdoor classroom on a deserted bowling green...
Continue reading...Food Connect pioneer at TransitionSydney’s Cafe Conversations
24. July 2009
TransitionSydney's Cafe Conversations bring us innovative people in an informal setting - Robert Pekin, from Food Connect.
Continue reading...Rosemary’s retrofit a good home forever
24. July 2009
Always doing something interesting and useful, Rosemary Morrow's new booklet on retrofitting her house for energy and water efficiency, and food production, has already inspired others...
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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…
1. June 2010
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