Tag Archive | "community food systems"
Farmers of the urban footpath & the need for design guidelines for street verge gardens
It's happened suddenly — the upsurge of interest in gardening the street verge with edible plants. But before we rush out to replace nature strip lawn with vegetables, there's a few design considerations we would do well to take into account...
Continue reading...A food policy for our common future
Thursday, July 15, 2010
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...How to feed 3 adults for 20 dollars and help local farms
Monday, July 5, 2010
REBECCA MORGAN is the “hands and heart” behind Courmand du Morgan, a company that prepares gourmet locally-sourced meals and delivers them to your door step...
Continue reading...MEDIA RELEASE: New opportunity in fresh food-Food Connect comes to Randwick
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Food Connect Sydney's City Cousin in the Eastern Suburbs has received support from Randwick Council. Here is a media release I edited and distributed to Eastern Suburbs media on behalf of Food Connect Sydney...
Continue reading...Declaration on food: Sydney Food Fairness Alliance
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Two declarations on the future of our food systems have been released in the past six months. This is the Declaration of the Sydney Food Fairness Alliance's Hungry for Change Food Summit of October 2009...
Continue reading...Declaration on Food: Plains To Plate
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Two declarations on the future of our food systems have been released in the past six months. This is the Declaration of the Plains To Plate food convergence that took place in Adealide, South Australia, in February 2010...
Continue reading...City east becomes the epicentre for community food systems
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Like some emerging lifeform, community food systems is an idea now growing in Australia's town and cities where it holds promise of a different food future. Some have claimed the inner city/Inner West to be the epicentre of community food system evolution, but now attention turns eastward to Sydney's coastal city east region where community food systems are diversifying. But will that diversity merely fragment or will it fit all the better to the niches and crannies occupied by the region's eaters...
Continue reading...Dilemma: Two community food systems — which to choose?
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Here's the dilemma for Sydney City East good food eaters: which food system do you choose? Organic Buyers Group Randwick of Food Connect Sydney?
Continue reading...Why is Food Connect taking off?
Monday, February 22, 2010
What is it that lies behind the rapid replication of Food Connect? Is it just good food, shorter links between farmer and eater... or is it something a little bit stickier?
Continue reading...In Adelaide and Sydney, a tasty future beckons
Monday, February 22, 2010
Food Connect has made a start in Adelaide and Sydney...
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- The Trainer papers... 4
- The Trainer papers... 1
- Why is Food Connect taking off?
- Food Summit hands declaration on food futures to NSW Parliament
- An edible garden for Eastern Suburbs apartment dwellers
- Policy related documents
- Mark Diesendorf — from academia to climate action campaigner
- Something new, something edible this way comes
- 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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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…
Friday, July 16, 2010
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