So what is an Urban Orchard? It’s a food swap. You grow too many lemons, so why not swap them for other edibles at your Urban Orchard market. It’s about the power of bartering… apples for asparagus, carrots for capsicum…

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…

The Sydney food Fairness Alliance calls for policy measures on food security…

NORBERT WIENER would have approved. So would have Marshall McLuhan. It was an example of how digital communications has amplified the capacity of small groups to take action and of how new communications media has changed our culture, just as McLuhan predicted it would. The Australian Food Sovereignty Alliances‘ (AFSA) letter to politicians, delivered just  Read more »

IT’S BEEN MENTIONED to me that the organic food industry offers little by way of alternative to the mainstream food industry that supplies our supermarkets when it comes to product packaging. When in organic food stores I’ve made my own informal survey of the packaging and found that the two food systems — organic and  Read more »

The recent months have continued to see growing interest in the necessity
of building a just and sustainable food system… read more news from South Australia…

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…