Movie of a troubled life

July 20, 2014 Memoir

IT WAS WHEN I was living in Byron Bay, and when in earlier times I would stay at the community atop the rainforest escarpment above Broken Head where…

Defending civic agriculture

July 4, 2014 The alt.food movement

This article was written for the Australian City Farms & Community Gardens Network following criticism in February 2014 of community food gardening and farmers’ markets by a representative…

A literature of past possibilites

July 4, 2014 Permaculture

THE BOOKS YOU SEE in the composite illustration accompanying this story link past and present. They link what was a pioneering social experiment with its refined, socially safer…

Memories tumble like sweets from a jar

June 8, 2014 Memoir

THINGS ARE NEVER quite the same when you return. They are similar, but not quite as you remember. There’s always something different… something you can’t quite put your…

Council takes initiative in education for local growing

June 6, 2014 Permaculture

JENNIFER ALDEN, the Victorian food consultant, gave me the book just a few weeks ago — a little A5-size publication with a photo of a bright red strawberry…

A journey, a conversation cafe, a garden

June 6, 2014 The alt.food movement

Some might call it preaching to the converted, my talk about the work of the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance with Permaculture/Transition Blue Mountains there in the community centre…