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In Adelaide, a small urban farm links entrepreneurship with good food

With around nine city farms already on the ground or in planning around Australia, it appears city farming's time is now. In Adelaide, one of their number, Wagtail Urban Farm, is showing that small can certainly be bountiful…

Defending civic agriculture

This article was written for the Australian City Farms & Community Gardens Network following criticism in February 2014 of community food gardening and farmers’ markets by a representative body of the vegetable industry. ………………………………………………. IN MID-FEBRUARY 2014, community gardeners around Australia suddenly found themselves under attack from the horticulture industry. Ausveg, a national industry organisation, […]

Local government version 2.0: from managerialism to platform

What could happen if councils made the change from managerialism to platform? From doing things for people to doing things with them? It might be a move away from vending machine government...

My work in local government—a few thoughts

A reflection on my recent role working in local government and a validation for my approach to the work...

A next-to-last project: a new community garden for Woolloomooloo

It was a different process getting the Bourke Street Park Community Garden through the social design and into the design stage. When it's built it will supplement the existing community garden in Woolloomooloo to provide new opportunities in commuity-based urban agriculture and social development for local people...

Social planning comes first in community garden design

When it comes to starting a community garden, social design precedes site design, and we have developed a simple management plan process for doing this...

Day 2: Ripping time as gardeners create edible footpath garden

Day 2 of the rehabilitation of the Barrett House footpath garden planter in Randwick saw the creation of a new, food-producing garden...

Day 1: A ripping time as gardeners create edible footpath garden

In a do-it-yourself approach to tactical urbanism, a Randwick team has removed a monoculture of agapanthus in preparation for a footpath garden of herbs, vegetables and fruit...

A good experience that could be made better

A reflection on working in local government and on its hiring practices...

Something new and edible is coming to Woolloomooloo

Working with a mixed demographic, council and social agencies has been a rewarding experience that could see something new created in Woolloomooloo...

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