Food Summit hands declaration on food futures to NSW Parliament

November 20, 2009 The alt.food movement

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…

Celebrating Chippendale’s local food culture

October 27, 2009 The alt.food movement

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…

Future scenarios — both scary and hopeful

October 2, 2009 Permaculture

With Future Scenarios, David Holmgren refocuses the permaculture design system on the big global issues but suggests a community-based response to addressing them...

Food for thought in Sydney — two days with David Holmgren

October 2, 2009 Permaculture

The winds of late October failed to blow away those attending a series of events with permaculture co-originator, David Holmgren. David left people with food for thought about…

Solitary, long ago

September 28, 2009 Memoir

Story & photos: Russ Grayson IT’S PERVERSE, REALLY. To walk  these mountains you start by descending rather than climbing.

Less a town than a landscape

September 22, 2009 Nomadics

It's not the town, its the landscape it is set in that gives the Byron region its spectacular character. This I was taught by a sea eagle and…