Locals take paint to boring community compost bins
COMPOST BIN too dull? Unexciting? Uninviting to fill with food and garden waste? Brighten them with a little imagination and paint….
Tag Archives: community food systems
Town Hall to go vegetable green
How do you make a small food garden on the terrace outside the meeting room at Town Hall House? You get an enthusiastic team, an experienced trainer and then you get things started…
Farmers of the urban footpath – 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 our nature strip lawn with vegetables, there’s a few design considerations we would do well to take into account…
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…
Sydney meeting puts AFSA on food advocacy map
Citizens, community organisations, small farmers, food advocacy and eduction organisations, heath interests, small business and social enterprise working in food production, distribution and waste management have a new voice in Australia now that the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) has taken steps to set itself up as a formal agency…
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…
One small step towards a city farm for Sydney
ONE OF THE GOOD THINGS about my role with the City of Sydney was witnessing the City’s Environment and Heritage committee vote unanimously last Monday to out the feasibility study for a Sydney city farm on public exhibition.
