The alt.food movement - PacificEdge

Green Square Growers get going at The Tote

A band of urban food adventurers has started turning Victoria Park edible with their first wicking garden bed. Working with the local community worker, my role was to ensure that the project made its way through council's approval convolutions. Now, what's new for Green Square Growers?

Publication defines food sensitive planning and urban design

VEIL's report, Food Sensitive Planning and Urban Design, is a source of ideas for planners and local government that would creatively integrate food production and distribution into our cities...

From village to city state to megalopolis, food shapes cities and lives

Architect and writer, Carolyn Steel, knows a thing or two about food, its history and politics. These she shared at a talk one rainy night at UNSW...

A celebration of growing and sharing food in Adelaide

So what is an Urban Orchard? It’s a food swap. You grow too many lemons, so why not swap them for other edibles at your Urban Orchard market. It’s about the power of bartering… apples for asparagus, carrots for capsicum...

Meeting helps Leichhardt develop community garden policy

A hot, sultry and sticky night didn't deter 45 people coming together to help Leichhardt Council develop their policy on community gardening...

Food fairness lobby calls for policy measures to safeguard the future of NSW food

The Sydney food Fairness Alliance calls for policy measures on food security...

A city farm, twenty years in the making

It's the fourth attempt to start a city farm in Sydney as the City of Sydney and its consultant holds a series of public consultations to harvest ideas for the proposed city farm...

A food policy, an election & the efficacy of networks

NORBERT WIENER would have approved. So would have Marshall McLuhan. It was an example of how digital communications has amplified the capacity of small groups to take action and of how new communications media has changed our culture, just as McLuhan predicted it would.

Great conference, good people… but this is Tasmania after all

A speaking engagement at a conference leads to an edible tour of the island state, the gem of the Southern Ocean...

Declaration on food: Sydney Food Fairness Alliance

Two declarations on the future of our food systems have been released in the past six months. This is the Declaration of the Sydney Food Fairness Alliance's Hungry for Change Food Summit of October 2009...

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