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…

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…

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…

A hot, sultry and sticky night didn’t deter 45 people coming together to help Leichhardt Council develop their policy on community gardening…

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.

NORBERT WIENER would have approved. So would have Marshall McLuhan. It was an example of how digital communications has amplified the capacity of small groups to take action and of how new communications media has changed our culture, just as McLuhan predicted it would. The Australian Food Sovereignty Alliances‘ (AFSA) letter to politicians, delivered just  Read more »

IT’S BEEN MENTIONED to me that the organic food industry offers little by way of alternative to the mainstream food industry that supplies our supermarkets when it comes to product packaging. When in organic food stores I’ve made my own informal survey of the packaging and found that the two food systems — organic and  Read more »