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Open for business – Food Connect Sydney starts-up

Friday, November 27, 2009

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Open for business – Food Connect Sydney starts-up

FOOD CONNECT SYDNEY is a new community food enterprise bringing fresh, tasty foods to city eaters. Its opening comes as an organisation is created to facilitate the spread of the Food Connect model Australia-wide...

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One year later… and a community garden blooms

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

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One year later… and a community garden blooms

IT'S GOOD TO SEE A PROJECT you have worked on come to fruition. That was the feeling as Kogarah City Council's Mayor, General Manager and other staff and gardeners officially opened the Carrs Park Community Garden. Faith Thomas and I started work on the project a little over a year ago...

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Saturdays at Salamanca

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

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Saturdays at Salamanca

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...

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Local a selling point at Evandale

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

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Local a selling point at Evandale

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...

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Food Summit hands declaration on food futures to NSW Parliament

Friday, November 20, 2009

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Food Summit hands declaration on food futures to NSW Parliament

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...

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Celebrating Chippendale’s local food culture

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

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Celebrating Chippendale’s local food culture

ONE DAY IT WAS A DINGY LANE taking the curious from Broadway to Chippendale. Next day it was a food fair, offering the curious a glimpse of the emerging local food culture that is starting to bloom in Sydney. Opinion was offered that the Chippendale Food for the Future Fair — this October’s was the second [...]

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As in Maui, so in Sydney

Sunday, September 13, 2009

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As in Maui, so in Sydney

We may be at opposite ends of the Pacific but, just as it's the same ocean that laps Hawaii's North Shore as washes the sands of Coogee, so too do we share some of the same food issues...

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The long road in the far north – on the local food speakers trail in northern NSW

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

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The long road in the far north – on the local food speakers trail in northern NSW

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 end approaches for the 3000 mile ceasar salad

Friday, July 13, 2007

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The end approaches for the 3000 mile ceasar salad

Written by Russ Grayson. First published in Online Opinion in 2007. GO LOCAL. That’s the suggestion of NSW North Coast community educator, Tim Winton, for coping with what he sees as the approaching peak oil crisis. ‘Peak oil’ describes the reaching of a peak in global oil production. After that, an inevitable decline kicks in, with increasing [...]

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Time for a new localism, says Norberg-Hodge

Friday, July 13, 2007

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Time for a new localism, says Norberg-Hodge

"See education as activism”, says Helena Norberg-Hodge. "Set up social and learning circles. Have groups of 10 to 15 people who like each other’s company discuss issues and do things together...

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