Day 2: Ripping time as gardeners create edible footpath garden
Day 2 of the rehabilitation of the Barrett House footpath garden planter in Randwick saw the creation of a new, food-producing garden…
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A celebration of growing and sharing food in Adelaide
So what is an Urban Orchard? It’s a food swap. You grow too many lemons, so why not swap them for other edibles at your Urban Orchard market. It’s about the power of bartering… apples for asparagus, carrots for capsicum…
A local currency that was
Local currencies are coming back into popularity to judge by a couple issued by Transition initiatives in the UK. Australian social innovators, however, experimented with a local currency well before the British…
Composting claims the footpath in Chippendale
There’s compost bins along Myrtle Street, and they’re not in people’s gardens. Instead, they’re on the footpath in an assessment of community composting…
City farm, training focus of Cafe Conversation
His history in setting up Northey Street City Farm with a group of enthusiasts, and the introduction of accredited permaculture training to Sydney were the focus of September 2009′s TransitionSydney Cafe Conversation with Dick Copeman…
On the road (apologies to Jack Kerouac)
The City of Sydney’s community garden tours help locals get started in community gardening…
