Amid an over-abundance of food, conviviality and good ideas, Sydney Food Connect has celebrated its birthday. Sydney Food Connect is a social enterprise—a business that has social goals—and that gives it a value that run-of-the-mill food businesses don’t have. Obtaining your food through Food Connect is a substantially more rewarding experience than tramping back and forth along the long aisles of the supermarket…

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?

A speaking engagement at a conference leads to an edible tour of the island state, the gem of the Southern Ocean…

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…

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…

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?

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?