Building the alt.food food system

Here is the handout that accompanied our Australasian Permaculture Convergence 13 session in building the alternative food system…Read More

The Community food movement: communication and cooperation needed

Australia has a community food movement but it could be improrved if it is to thrive, finds a NSW government enquiry into future support for the movment…Read More

The Community Food Movement: Can Silicon Valley reinvent the fair food movement?

There is agreement that we need to build a cohesive commuity food movement in Australia, but how do we go about it? And can Silicon Valley lend us a few ideas to get started?Read More

The Community Food Movement: The coming of the advocates

THE COMMUNITY FOOD MOVEMENT — the arrival of food advocacy organisations signifies that food in Australia is now an economic and political issue.Read More

The Community Food Movement: The social precursors

THE COMMUNITY FOOD MOVEMENT — It is to earlier social movements that we look for the origins of today’s community food movement.Read More

The Community Food Movement: An alternative — the community food system

THE 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?

THE 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

It 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

My work in local government—a few thoughts

LOCAL GOVERNMENT—it’s the level of government closest to the people in Australia and it’s this situation that gives it its reputation. And that’s quite a variable reputation that spans the distance from appreciation to criticisms of excessive bureaucracy.

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Social planning comes first in community garden design

IT’S A COMMON BELIEF among people setting out to start a community garden that the first step is to find land, do a site analysis, do a design, build and start growing. Were it only so simple.

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