The alt.food movement
The Community Food Movement: An alternative — the community food system
August 23, 2015 | Russ Grayson | One CommentTHE 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…Read More
The Community Food Movement: What is the food system?
August 23, 2015 | Russ GraysonTHE 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…Read More
Local government reform necessary to urban agriculture’s future
June 7, 2015 | Russ GraysonIt 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…Read More
The community gardens network: one of the fair food movement’s early organisations
November 19, 2014 | Russ GraysonCommunity gardeners — they’re a community of practice long a part of the fair food movement in Australia…Read More
Needed: Simple, focused, tangible goals
November 12, 2014 | Russ GraysonThe community food movement: a series about the emerging social movement around food…
THE FAIR FOOD MOVEMENT is diverse and fractured. It is made up of small organisations each pursuing their own goals that in some cases are too lofty for … Read More
Farms — for agriculture or tourists?
September 7, 2014 | Russ GraysonSOMETIMES, you stumble on an interesting story by accident. A story that has some resonance with your own experience. A story that makes you think. That happened this morning when I was looking at the timeline of a Facebook link … Read More
New software promises decentralised solution to buying food
July 24, 2014 | Russ GraysonDown Melbourne way they’re cooking up something interesting, innovative and digital when it comes to food… something that will create connections between food producers and the people who buy what they grow…Read More
Defending civic agriculture
July 4, 2014 | Russ GraysonThis article was written for the Australian City Farms & Community Gardens Network following criticism in February 2014 of community food gardening and farmers’ markets by a representative body of the vegetable industry.
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IN MID-FEBRUARY 2014, community gardeners around … Read More
Council takes initiative in education for local growing
June 6, 2014 | Russ GraysonJENNIFER ALDEN, the Victorian food consultant, gave me the book just a few weeks ago — a little A5-size publication with a photo of a bright red strawberry on the cover and the logo of the City of Greater Bendigo … Read More
A journey, a conversation cafe, a garden
June 6, 2014 | Russ GraysonSome might call it preaching to the converted, my talk about the work of the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance with Permaculture/Transition Blue Mountains there in the community centre in Lawson that night.Read More
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