Design salon 2: skilling up the local group
IT'S A REAL-WORLD INTRODUCTION to permaculture for those participating in the design of the small garden and the tour trails at Barrett House in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs...
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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...
Read MoreDeclaration on Food: Plains To Plate
Two declarations on the future of our food systems have been released in the past six months. This is the Declaration of the Plains To Plate food convergence that took place in Adealide, South Australia, in February 2010...
Read MorePlains To Plate signals arrival of food as sustainability issue
Adelaide's Plains To Plate Food Convergence signals that food has arrived as a social, community and sustainability issue...
Read MoreAn edible garden for Eastern Suburbs apartment dwellers
The days when most people had a house and garden are gone. If cities are to feed themselves, then attention will have to move towards food production on apartment common land. In Sydney's Eastern Suburbs, a small apartment block in Randwick has taken its first step towards sustainability by starting a food garden...
Read MoreOne year later… and a community garden blooms
IT'S GOOD TO SEE A PROJECT you have worked on come to fruition. That was the feeling as Kogarah City Council's Mayor, General Manager and other staff and gardeners officially opened the Carrs Park Community Garden. Faith Thomas and I started work on the project a little over a year ago...
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Food Summit hands declaration on food futures to NSW Parliament
AROUND A DOZEN PEOPLE are walking the long, straight footway through Hyde Park where the lines of overaching native figs form a vegetative tunnel. They enter Macquarie Street and make their way to an old sandstone building with a long verandah. Here, they are to hand over the state’s first Declaration on Food...
Read MoreCelebrating Chippendale’s local food culture
ONE DAY IT WAS A DINGY LANE taking the curious from Broadway to Chippendale. Next day it was a food fair, offering the curious a glimpse of the emerging local food culture that is starting to bloom in Sydney.
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City farm, training focus of Cafe Conversation
His history in setting up Northey Street City Farm with a group of enthusiasts, and the introduction of accredited permaculture training to Sydney were the focus of September 2009's TransitionSydney Cafe Conversation with Dick Copeman...
Read MoreCollaboration, participation build something new on something old
At Carrs Park, participatory planning and construction, cooperation between citizens and council and collaboration are creating a new community garden and outdoor classroom on a deserted bowling green...
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