Visitors tour sustainability hubs and community gardens
Visitors from the Philippines and Canada get acquainted with Sydney’s community gardens and sustainability centres…
Tag Archives: community gardens
Town Hall to go vegetable green
How do you make a small food garden on the terrace outside the meeting room at Town Hall House? You get an enthusiastic team, an experienced trainer and then you get things started…
Farmers of the urban footpath – design guidelines for street verge gardens
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…
Sydney meeting puts AFSA on food advocacy map
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…
Meeting helps Leichhardt develop community garden policy
A hot, sultry and sticky night didn’t deter 45 people coming together to help Leichhardt Council develop their policy on community gardening…
A city farm, twenty years in the making
It’s the fourth attempt to start a city farm in Sydney as the City of Sydney and its consultant holds a series of public consultations to harvest ideas for the proposed city farm…
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?
