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Plains To Plate signals arrival of food as sustainability issue

Monday, February 22, 2010

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Plains To Plate signals arrival of food as sustainability issue

Adelaide's Plains To Plate Food Convergence signals that food has arrived as a social, community and sustainability issue...

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Xmas comes in with a song at Randwick community garden

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

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Xmas comes in with a song at Randwick community garden

CHRISTMAS TIME is celebration time at Randwick Organic Community Garden. Thanks to the efforts of the Arts in the Gardens team’s Mary O’Connell, this year’s celebrations featured Ecopella, an accapella group that took the audience through songs amusing, political and frivolous. The performance was followed by celebratory food that the gardeners had made themselves, fruit juices or [...]

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One year later… and a community garden blooms

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

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One year later… and a community garden blooms

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...

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On the urban food trail to the far east

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

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On the urban food trail to the far east

IT WAS LIKE TOURING AN INNER URBAN and Eastern Suburbs food trail… a tour of food initiatives starting at Waterloo and ending in the far reaches of Randwick. The tour was one of three organised as part of October 2009’s Sydney Food Fairness Alliance’s (SFFA) Food Summit, Hungry For Change. While other tours headed off to [...]

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Lawson residents ready to garden as community

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

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Lawson residents ready to garden as community

Not all that far from the sprawling city on the plain, the Blue Mountains is a world apart. It is also a world in which people have a sense of community, and Lawson folk are about to demonstrate that with a new community garden...

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City farm, training focus of Cafe Conversation

Friday, September 4, 2009

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City farm, training focus of Cafe Conversation

His history in setting up Northey Street City Farm with a group of enthusiasts, and the introduction of accredited permaculture training to Sydney were the focus of September 2009's TransitionSydney Cafe Conversation with Dick Copeman...

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Getting in early: the 2010 permaculture calendar and diary

Monday, July 27, 2009

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Getting in early: the 2010 permaculture calendar and diary

David Arnold and Michele Margolis have been busy preparing next year's Permaculture Calendar and Diary for you...

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On the road (apologies to Jack Kerouac)

Saturday, July 11, 2009

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On the road (apologies to Jack Kerouac)

The City of Sydney's community garden tours help locals get started in community gardening...

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Garden education in Sydney’s sandy east

Sunday, September 14, 2008

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Garden education in Sydney’s sandy east

The Eastern Suburbs sandy soils are starting to sprout lettuce and leeks, cabbage and capsicum thanks to a local government course in sustainable gardening...

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Great speakers, great company, great food, great conviviality

Thursday, July 26, 2007

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Great speakers, great company, great food, great conviviality

The 2007 Australian City Farms & Community Gardens Network's annual conference filled Collingwood Town Hall with people and great ideas...

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