The Community Food Movement: An alternative — the community food system

August 23, 2015 The alt.food movement

THE COMMUNITY FOOD MOVEMENT: Permaculture co-inventor, David Holmgren said that for most people the supermarket is their larder. Woolworths and Coles might be where most Australians buy their…

The Community Food Movement: What is the food system?

August 23, 2015 The alt.food movement

THE COMMUNITY FOOD MOVEMENT… A social movement around food is emerging in Australia, and what better place to start understanding it than a look at our food supply…

Local government reform necessary to urban agriculture’s future

June 7, 2015 Journal

It is time for reform of local government’s handling of community food initiatives on public land. It is time, too, to reform councils’ handling of complaints about those…

Learning to create our new nature in the city…

May 31, 2015 Permaculture

AS THE COURSE PARTICIPANTS ARRIVE for the class they open jars containing soil samples from their gardens. These they tip onto small, white plastic panels. Opening a bottle of…

Figure in a window

March 29, 2015 Memoir

” …WHITLAM’s  in power and the war’s ended… for us, anyway, the yanks are still there, still involved in that peace process that seems to go on and…

The citizen photojournalist: here’s the manual

March 22, 2015 Citizen journalism

WHO BETTER than a multimedia photojournalist and blogger whose work has also been picked up by old media's newspapers and TV to write a book on citizen journalism?…