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Defending civic agriculture

This article was written for the Australian City Farms & Community Gardens Network following criticism in February 2014 of community

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A literature of past possibilites

THE BOOKS YOU SEE in the composite illustration accompanying this story link past and present. They link what was a

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Memories tumble like sweets from a jar

THINGS ARE NEVER quite the same when you return. They are similar, but not quite as you remember. There’s always

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Council takes initiative in education for local growing

JENNIFER ALDEN, the Victorian food consultant, gave me the book just a few weeks ago — a little A5-size publication

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A journey, a conversation cafe, a garden

Some might call it preaching to the converted, my talk about the work of the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance with

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A distant voice calls from permaculture’s dawn time

SOMETIMES, the best discoveries are made by accident. I was rummaging through the library of an international development organisation I

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Peter Matthiessen, writer – farewell & thanks

I’VE READ ONLY one book by Peter Matthiessen, and that was some time in the 1980s. It was his tale

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Rebuilding the Foodshed — the book

THERE's a lot in Philip Ackerman-Leist's book, Rebuilding the Foodshed, but don't expect to come away from reading it with

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Science commentators clash on communication

IF WHAT an article in The Conversation claims is true, then I’m surprised. Surprised that someone of Tim Flannery’s standing

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The Organ Pipes Track — sunshine and ice

A Tasmanian journey… “WHAT’S THIS?”. Fiona holds out her hand as if to catch whatever it is that has started

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