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Apartment lawn to food in Maroubra
In Maroubra, Kimberley has turned her apartment block's lawn into food...
Continue reading...Dilemma: Two community food systems — which to choose?
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Here's the dilemma for Sydney City East good food eaters: which food system do you choose? Organic Buyers Group Randwick of Food Connect Sydney?
Continue reading...Why is Food Connect taking off?
Monday, February 22, 2010
What is it that lies behind the rapid replication of Food Connect? Is it just good food, shorter links between farmer and eater... or is it something a little bit stickier?
Continue reading...In Adelaide and Sydney, a tasty future beckons
Monday, February 22, 2010
Food Connect has made a start in Adelaide and Sydney...
Continue reading...Organic buyers group offers a good crop
Thursday, December 24, 2009
IT’S MONDAY EVENING and we’re at a School in Randwick to collect our first box of vegetables from Sydney Organic Buyers Group, Randwick. We walk into a busy scene. People are taking fruit and vegetables from boxes and counting them into large shopping baskets arrayed across the floor. These contain the foods that make up the [...]
Continue reading...Pedapods a new transport mode in Sydney city
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Traveling through Sydney city? Then why not Pedapod it?
Continue reading...Depot roof becomes power station in Randwick
Friday, November 27, 2009
The new photovoltaic array on the roof of Randwick City Council's depot is just one of Council's sustainability initiatives...
Continue reading...Simple solutions encourage locals to leave their car at home
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Simple solutions are often all that is needed to encourage people to leave the car in the garage...
Continue reading...One year later… and a community garden blooms
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
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...
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...
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- The Trainer papers... 1
- The Trainer papers... 4
- 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…
Saturday, February 27, 2010
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