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How to feed 3 adults for 20 dollars and help local farms

Monday, July 5, 2010

REBECCA MORGAN is the “hands and heart” behind Courmand du Morgan, a company that prepares gourmet locally-sourced meals and delivers them to your door step...

Good topic but presentation distracting

Sunday, April 11, 2010

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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...

Achacha a South American fruit marketed to Sydney eaters

Sunday, January 24, 2010

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

An edible garden for Eastern Suburbs apartment dwellers

Sunday, December 27, 2009

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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...

Organic buyers group offers a good crop

Thursday, December 24, 2009

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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 [...]

Xmas comes in with a song at Randwick community garden

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

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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 [...]