Tag Archive | "food"

Time to stop Big Coal gobbling up the Liverpool Plains foodlands

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

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Please help us to save the Liverpool Plains... the Liverpool Plains is an extremely important foodbowl of Australia but at the moment it is being explored for coal and coal seam gas...

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Declaration on Food: Plains To Plate

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

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Declaration on Food: Plains To Plate

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...

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Good topic but presentation distracting

Sunday, April 11, 2010

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Good topic but presentation distracting

It was a seminar on the security and sustainability of Sydney's food supply, but bad Powerpoints and lacklustre presentation failed to engage an informed audience and distracted some of those there...

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Bullet-hole bunny terrine — a place in our national cuisine?

Thursday, April 8, 2010

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Bullet-hole bunny terrine — a place in our national cuisine?

Bullet-hole bunny terrine with figs and walnut, served with tomato relish and a nasturtium and watercress salad might not be the food future to vegetarians and animal lovers, but it might be one way of dealing with this country's feral animal population. The idea was reported by a woman who lives on Australia's far southern coastline where wind whips the sea into foam and the forest conceals a surprising variety of ferals...

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Farewell checkout chick — hello machine

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

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Supermarkets may offer the chance to interact with a machine rather than with a human...

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Apartment lawn to food in Maroubra

Saturday, February 27, 2010

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Apartment lawn to food in Maroubra

In Maroubra, Kimberley has turned her apartment block's lawn into food...

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Achacha a South American fruit marketed to Sydney eaters

Sunday, January 24, 2010

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Achacha a South American fruit marketed to Sydney eaters

A new fruit now being marketed to Sydney eaters is Achacha (Garcinia humulis), a native of the Bolivian Amazon...

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Serendipitous encounters on a drizzly summer morning

Monday, January 4, 2010

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Serendipitous encounters on a drizzly summer morning

It's sort of strange how a relaxing walk in the morning drizzle can lead to encounters of the vergetative kind...

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An edible garden for Eastern Suburbs apartment dwellers

Sunday, December 27, 2009

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An edible garden for Eastern Suburbs apartment dwellers

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...

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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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