Architect and writer, Carolyn Steel, knows a thing or two about food, its history and politics. These she shared at a talk one rainy night at UNSW…

Costa the telegardener does a lot to popularise growing food in our cities. He was at it again when he led an afternoon workshop at Waterloo Library…

I made use of the Public Narrative approach in a recent structured conversation about food exchanges at the Transition Bondi Wednesday evening soiree…

Amid an over-abundance of food, conviviality and good ideas, Sydney Food Connect has celebrated its birthday. Sydney Food Connect is a social enterprise—a business that has social goals—and that gives it a value that run-of-the-mill food businesses don’t have. Obtaining your food through Food Connect is a substantially more rewarding experience than tramping back and forth along the long aisles of the supermarket…

A little systems thinking can never be too much. For the increasing number of local governments and communities contemplating or trying community composting, the Chippendale experience points to the need to take a systems thinking approach that fully considers the type, quantity and quality of inputs into the composting process, the processes of management and maintenance and the qualtity and quantity of outputs…

In an inner Sydney residential enclave, a trial of community composting by local people and assisted by the City of Sydney is producing some valuable lessons…

How do you combine an area of boring, low quality lawn, a gas barbecue and a few tables and bench seats and a couple council education courses into a cohesive area of public open space? The answer: create a new kind of public open space…