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The Community Food Movement: The birth of AFSA

THE COMMUNITY FOOD MOVEMENT— In late 2010 in response to a federal government proposal for a national food plan, a new organisation came into being to redirect government bias towards big agribusiness…

The Community Food Movement: The coming of the advocates

THE COMMUNITY FOOD MOVEMENT — the arrival of food advocacy organisations signifies that food in Australia is now an economic and political issue.

The Community Food Movement: The social precursors

THE COMMUNITY FOOD MOVEMENT — It is to earlier social movements that we look for the origins of today’s community food movement.

Liberation Permaculture: a response to Nicole Vosper and Graham Burnett

This is a response to an article about what Nicole Vosper and Graham Burnett call 'Liberation Permaculture' in their article on the UK Permaculture magazine website…

John Percy — a final farewell

We said goodbye to John yesterday afternoon. Around 100 gathered in the restored Art Deco ambience of a room in Erskineville Town Hall to hear reflections on John Percy's life from his family and from those who had worked with him…

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

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 food, however an alternative, parallel food system is in gestation. It was here that the community food movement was born…

The Community Food Movement: What is the food system?

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 chain…

Local government reform necessary to urban agriculture’s future

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 enterprises…

Learning to create our new nature in the city…

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 dark purple reagent, they squeeze a little onto their samples and, using a plastic stick (wood contains acids that would bias the results), they mix it in. […]

Figure in a window

” …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 on just like the fighting… and here we are in Annandale…”. “Different living here, different to the Woolloomooloo sharehouse…” she replies to the figure wedged into the […]

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