Journal
In Tasmania – Shakespeare’s excursion into the deep heart of this strange island
July 11, 2009 | Russ Grayson
IT WAS LATE on a cold Friday evening when I dropped into Desire bookshop. Cars’ headlights had been turned on and clusters of commuters, hands thrust deep into pockets and heads bowed, scurried homeward along the Corso from the ferry wharf. The day was drawing to a close and a chilling wind was blowing in from the sea. It was the kind of evening when you turn up your collar and hurry to wherever it is that you are going.
Daring and exploration on Tasmania’s wild rivers
July 11, 2009 | Russ GraysonI’VE JUST FINISHED reading Johnson Dean’s Shooting the Franklin — early canoeing on Tasmania’s wild rivers, and have come away with a feeling of great admiration for those early adventurers who made hazardous voyages into what was literally the unknown.
Permaculture – a movement in need of a history
December 27, 2007 | Russ Grayson | One CommentI’M HOUSE MINDING FOR A FRIEND. In architectural style the house is Federation, one half of a long, dark red brick duplex in Sydney’s Inner West and probably built early in the Twentieth Century. It’s not an overly-ornate house in the way that some of its more exuberant contemporaries are but, like many of them, it was built in defiance of the climate and as a result is quite cold to live in during the winter.
The long road in the far north – on the local food speakers trail in northern NSW
July 24, 2007 | Russ GraysonStory & photos: Russ Grayson.
MARCH DAYS ARE MILD DAYS in the sleepy northern NSW town of Lismore. And this year they were no different. What was different was that the subtropical city of 28,000 played host to a rather unusual conference, a conference about food… local food.
Being idle – a book for the free spirited
July 24, 2007 | Russ GraysonIdling for the free spirited… and those who would like to join them.
THIS IS A BOOK for the free of spirit by the man who edits the famous Idler annual. It’s an interesting, easy to real and irreverent book full of unorthodox ideas that are as challenging to conventional lifestyles as they are common sense.
Time for a new localism, says Norberg-Hodge
July 13, 2007 | Russ GraysonFirst published 2007 by Russ Grayson.
“See education as activism”, she says. “Set up social and learning circles. Have groups of 10 to 15 people who like each other’s company and discuss issues and do things together…
Read MoreUrban farming may be on way to extinction
July 13, 2003 | Russ Grayson | 3 CommentsFirst published: September 2003.
IF YOU EAT FRESH FOOD in Sydney, offer your thanks to the 1300 market gardeners who farm the Sydney Basin and supply the city with its fresh produce. And if you live elsewhere in NSW you might thank those farmers as well – a full 90 percent of the state’s perishable produce originates in the agriculturally-favoured Sydney Basin.
Community supported agriculture has potential study finds
September 1, 2002 | Russ Grayson | One CommentPublished by Russ Grayson 2002
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A RESEARCH PROJECT has found that community supported agriculture (CSA) could provide a viable market for city fringe farmers.
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