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Meeting helps Leichhardt develop community garden policy

A hot, sultry and sticky night didn’t deter 45 people coming together to help Leichhardt Council develop their policy on community gardening…

A food policy for our common future

Growcom wants one. So does the Public Health Association of Australia and sustainable agriculture expert at the University of Sydney, Bill Billotti. A national food policy, it seems, is something of a catchy idea. But what kind of policy are we talking about?

Great conference, good people… but this is Tasmania after all

Great conference, good people…  but this is Tasmania after all

A speaking engagement at a conference leads to an edible tour of the island state, the gem of the Southern Ocean…

Plains To Plate signals arrival of food as sustainability issue

Plains To Plate signals arrival of food as sustainability issue

Adelaide’s Plains To Plate Food Convergence signals that food has arrived as a social, community and sustainability issue…

Xmas comes in with a song at Randwick community garden

Xmas comes in with a song at Randwick community garden

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  Read more »

Lawson residents ready to garden as community

Lawson residents ready to garden as community

Not all that far from the sprawling city on the plain, the Blue Mountains is a world apart. It is also a world in which people have a sense of community, and Lawson folk are about to demonstrate that with a new community garden…

Collaboration, participation build something new on something old

Collaboration, participation build something new on something old

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…