Tag Archive | "food"
Farewell checkout chick — hello machine
Supermarkets may offer the chance to interact with a machine rather than with a human...
Continue reading...Apartment lawn to food in Maroubra
Saturday, February 27, 2010
In Maroubra, Kimberley has turned her apartment block's lawn into food...
Continue reading...Achacha a South American fruit marketed to Sydney eaters
Sunday, January 24, 2010
A new fruit now being marketed to Sydney eaters is Achacha (Garcinia humulis), a native of the Bolivian Amazon...
Continue reading...Serendipitous encounters on a drizzly summer morning
Monday, January 4, 2010
It's sort of strange how a relaxing walk in the morning drizzle can lead to encounters of the vergetative kind...
Continue reading...An edible garden for Eastern Suburbs apartment dwellers
Sunday, December 27, 2009
The days when most people had a house and garden are gone. If cities are to feed themselves, then attention will have to move towards food production on apartment common land. In Sydney's Eastern Suburbs, a small apartment block in Randwick has taken its first step towards sustainability by starting a food garden...
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...Saturdays at Salamanca
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
SATURDAYS AT SALAMANCA Place are crowded and busy... locals rub shoulders with visitors as they crowd the alleys of Salamanca Market to find local food, local arts and crafts, photography, seeds, fresh fruit and vegetables, soft and sweet Bruny Island fudge, Gillespie's fizzy ginger beer...
Continue reading...Local a selling point at Evandale
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
FOOD GROWN LOCALLYseems to be something of a specialty at Evandale Market. A recent visit disclosed sign after sign on a number of stalls advertising the localism of fresh vegetables, herbs and fruit...
Continue reading...Food Summit hands declaration on food futures to NSW Parliament
Friday, November 20, 2009
AROUND A DOZEN PEOPLE are walking the long, straight footway through Hyde Park where the lines of overaching native figs form a vegetative tunnel. They enter Macquarie Street and make their way to an old sandstone building with a long verandah. Here, they are to hand over the state’s first Declaration on Food...
Continue reading...The long road in the far north – on the local food speakers trail in northern NSW
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
MARCH DAYS ARE MILD DAYS in the sleepy northern NSW town of Lismore. And this year they were no different...
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- The Trainer papers... 1
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- Why is Food Connect taking off?
- Policy related documents
- Mark Diesendorf — from academia to climate action campaigner
- Something new, something edible this way comes
- Lawson residents ready to garden as community
- ORID - strategic questioning that gets you to a decision
- Open for business - Food Connect Sydney starts-up
- An edible garden for Eastern Suburbs apartment dwellers
- admin: Response to Terry Leahy... Thanks for your comm...
- Antonia Vorner: Thank you Russ Grayson for this discussion paper,...
- tali k: Hi Russ and Fiona, Great article, this looks like...
- admin: Thanks for the good news about Food Connect Melbou...
- doron francis: Great article! Yes Food Connect is spreading. CERE...
- Why is Food Connect taking off?
- In Adelaide and Sydney, a tasty future beckons
- Plains To Plate signals arrival of food as sustainability issue
- Participatory planning the theme of local group meeting
- One year later… and a community garden blooms
- Food Summit hands declaration on food futures to NSW Parliament
Upcoming events
From Plains to Plate…
the Future of Food in South Australia South Australian Food Convergence
February 2010
More details on the Food Convergence, including details on how you or your organisation can get involved will be available soon. Check back regularly, or email us for more details.
More info…
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
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