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A food policy for our common future
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?
Continue reading...Great conference, good people… but this is Tasmania after all
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
A speaking engagement at a conference leads to an edible tour of the island state, the gem of the Southern Ocean...
Continue reading...Declaration on Food: Plains To Plate
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
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...
Continue reading...City east becomes the epicentre for community food systems
Sunday, March 14, 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...
Continue reading...Plains To Plate signals arrival of food as sustainability issue
Monday, February 22, 2010
Adelaide's Plains To Plate Food Convergence signals that food has arrived as a social, community and sustainability issue...
Continue reading...Xmas comes in with a song at Randwick community garden
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...One year later… and a community garden blooms
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
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...
Continue reading...On the urban food trail to the far east
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Lawson residents ready to garden as community
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
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...
Continue reading...City farm, training focus of Cafe Conversation
Friday, September 4, 2009
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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The Plains To Plate website was set up as the communications hub for the Plains To Plate Future of Food conference in Adelaide earlier this year and continues as a service linking food system aficionados around Australia.
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Thursday, July 15, 2010
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