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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?
Continue reading...Great conference, good people… but this is Tasmania after all
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
A speaking engagement at a conference leads to an edible tour of the island state, the gem of the Southern Ocean...
Continue reading...Plains To Plate signals arrival of food as sustainability issue
Monday, February 22, 2010
Adelaide's Plains To Plate Food Convergence signals that food has arrived as a social, community and sustainability issue...
Continue reading...Xmas comes in with a song at Randwick community garden
Wednesday, December 23, 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...Lawson residents ready to garden as community
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
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...
Continue reading...Collaboration, participation build something new on something old
Tuesday, August 18, 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...Great speakers, great company, great food, great conviviality
Thursday, July 26, 2007
The 2007 Australian City Farms & Community Gardens Network's annual conference filled Collingwood Town Hall with people and great ideas...
Continue reading...David Holmgren: design approach to food security
Thursday, July 26, 2007
David Holmgren says cities can feed themselves...
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- Food Summit hands declaration on food futures to NSW Parliament
- An edible garden for Eastern Suburbs apartment dwellers
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- Rosemary's retrofit a good home forever
- Lawson residents ready to garden as community
- 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…
Thursday, July 15, 2010
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