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Dilemma: Two community food systems — which to choose?
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...
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...Serendipitous encounters on a drizzly summer morning
Monday, January 4, 2010
It's sort of strange how a relaxing walk in the morning drizzle can lead to encounters of the vergetative kind...
Continue reading...An edible garden for Eastern Suburbs apartment dwellers
Sunday, December 27, 2009
The days when most people had a house and garden are gone. If cities are to feed themselves, then attention will have to move towards food production on apartment common land. In Sydney's Eastern Suburbs, a small apartment block in Randwick has taken its first step towards sustainability by starting a food garden...
Continue reading...Organic buyers group offers a good crop
Thursday, December 24, 2009
IT’S MONDAY EVENING and we’re at a School in Randwick to collect our first box of vegetables from Sydney Organic Buyers Group, Randwick. We walk into a busy scene. People are taking fruit and vegetables from boxes and counting them into large shopping baskets arrayed across the floor. These contain the foods that make up the [...]
Continue reading...Open for business – Food Connect Sydney starts-up
Friday, November 27, 2009
FOOD CONNECT SYDNEY is a new community food enterprise bringing fresh, tasty foods to city eaters. Its opening comes as an organisation is created to facilitate the spread of the Food Connect model Australia-wide...
Continue reading...One year later… and a community garden blooms
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
IT'S GOOD TO SEE A PROJECT you have worked on come to fruition. That was the feeling as Kogarah City Council's Mayor, General Manager and other staff and gardeners officially opened the Carrs Park Community Garden. Faith Thomas and I started work on the project a little over a year ago...
Continue reading...Saturdays at Salamanca
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
SATURDAYS AT SALAMANCA Place are crowded and busy... locals rub shoulders with visitors as they crowd the alleys of Salamanca Market to find local food, local arts and crafts, photography, seeds, fresh fruit and vegetables, soft and sweet Bruny Island fudge, Gillespie's fizzy ginger beer...
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- The Trainer papers... 1
- The Trainer papers... 4
- Why is Food Connect taking off?
- Policy related documents
- Mark Diesendorf — from academia to climate action campaigner
- Something new, something edible this way comes
- Lawson residents ready to garden as community
- ORID - strategic questioning that gets you to a decision
- Open for business - Food Connect Sydney starts-up
- An edible garden for Eastern Suburbs apartment dwellers
- admin: Response to Terry Leahy... Thanks for your comm...
- Antonia Vorner: Thank you Russ Grayson for this discussion paper,...
- tali k: Hi Russ and Fiona, Great article, this looks like...
- admin: Thanks for the good news about Food Connect Melbou...
- doron francis: Great article! Yes Food Connect is spreading. CERE...
- Why is Food Connect taking off?
- In Adelaide and Sydney, a tasty future beckons
- Plains To Plate signals arrival of food as sustainability issue
- Participatory planning the theme of local group meeting
- One year later… and a community garden blooms
- Food Summit hands declaration on food futures to NSW Parliament
Upcoming events
From Plains to Plate…
the Future of Food in South Australia South Australian Food Convergence
February 2010
More details on the Food Convergence, including details on how you or your organisation can get involved will be available soon. Check back regularly, or email us for more details.
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010
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