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On the road (apologies to Jack Kerouac)
The City of Sydney's community garden tours help locals get started in community gardening...
Continue reading...Local economics initiatives stimulated by visit of US advocate
10. July 2009
FOR MICHAEL SHUMAN, his visit to Australia was a whirlwind of appearances and presentations that started in Brisbane, took him into Northern NSW, down to Melbourne, then up to Coffs Harbour and Bellingen, down south to Hobart then north to Sydney. Michael works with the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies in the USA.
Continue reading...BANNED: Disposable water bottles
10. July 2009
NOW THAT citizens of the southern NSW town of Bundanoon have voted to ban sales of bottled water by the end of this year, perhaps the idea will spread.
Continue reading...Time for a new localism, says Norberg-Hodge
13. July 2007
"See education as activism”, says Helena Norberg-Hodge. "Set up social and learning circles. Have groups of 10 to 15 people who like each other’s company discuss issues and do things together...
Continue reading...Comfortable mudbrick on the Southern Highlands
13. July 2003
First published 2003 by Russ Grayson. IT IS WINTER on the Southern Highlands of NSW, a time when the warmth of the sun is weak and the cold south-westerly blows in from the snowfields. Yet, no matter how cold it is outside, to step into the yellow-orange mudbrick glow of this house is to enter an [...]
Continue reading...A new ecological restoration to feed people
26. August 1997
This 1997 article describes a model of edible ecological restoration for the far north coastal region of NSW, as proposed by local bushfood and sustainable landscape designer, Peter Hardwick...
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- The Trainer papers... 4
- The Trainer papers... 1
- Why is Food Connect taking off?
- An edible garden for Eastern Suburbs apartment dwellers
- Food Summit hands declaration on food futures to NSW Parliament
- Policy related documents
- Mark Diesendorf — from academia to climate action campaigner
- Something new, something edible this way comes
- Open for business - Food Connect Sydney starts-up
- Rosemary's retrofit a good home forever
- 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…
11. July 2009
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