The alt.food movement
Good ideas flow at Sydney urban farming event
March 3, 2018 | Russ GraysonIt was the conversation rather than the presentations that made the Sydney Environment Institutes Urban Farming — Feeding the Future a source of good information and ideas.Read More
Along the lane, an edible surprise
December 7, 2017 | Russ GraysonAn edible surprise awaits on a walk home…Read More
New food for hungry bushwalkers
October 2, 2017 | Russ GraysonPatagonia’ showing of Unbroken Ground and the launch of Patagonia Provisions in Australia attracted a crowd of mountain sports people, surfers and others who like the company’s clothing and equipment and how it is trying to reform its supply chains…Read More
Sydney symposium explores urban agriculture
September 21, 2017 | Russ GraysonTHE URBAN AGRICULTURE SPACE is diverse, spanning commercial farms, community gardens, food security and sovereignty organisations, academia, indigenous peoples’ organisations, permaculture educators and activists and heath institutes and interests. In 2017, they gathered at Packet City Farm for a forum on urban agriculture…Read More
Makers and doers of the alt.food system
September 7, 2017 | Russ GraysonThe presence of Robert Pekin and Emma-Kate Rose at the 2017 Building a new Economy conference was evidence that a different model to business-as-usual works…Read More
Building the alt.food food system
March 11, 2017 | Russ GraysonHere is the handout that accompanied our Australasian Permaculture Convergence 13 session in building the alternative food system…Read More
Made By Cow — authentically raw?
August 18, 2016 | Russ GraysonMade By Cow is a new milk product arriving on the market at a time when milk and the future of the dairy industry is in the news. The milk uses a new processing technology and claims to be raw. Raw milk advocates questions this, however…Read More
On the food frontline: seminar highlights growing challenge of food insecurity
August 7, 2016 | Russ GraysonNot knowing where next week’s meals are coming from is something fortunately unknown to most if us. But, for a growing number of people its is a real question…Read More
The fair food movement: morally superior and elitist?
August 3, 2016 | Russ GraysonIs the fair food movement being inadvertently elitist and morally superior? Does it position its participants above people who do not share its food values? Yes, says Rachel Ankeny, a history professor at the University of Adelaide…Read More
Organic milk: how shopping became a dilemma
June 10, 2016 | Russ GraysonGoing shopping is often a trying experience, especially when it presents you with a dilemma:Read More
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