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 MoreONE 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.
Read MoreIn this 1999 article, Fiona Campbell describes the process of designing, constructing and planting her home garden not far from the shores of Botany Bay...
Read MoreAt 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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TerraCircle Inc's Australian project — a community sustainability action guide for local government...
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FOR MICHAEL SHUMAN, his visit to Australia was a whirlwind of appearances and presentations that started in Brisbane, took him into Northern NSW, down to Melbourne, then up to Coffs Harbour and Bellingen, down south to Hobart then north to Sydney. Michael works with the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies in the USA.
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The Eastern Suburbs sandy soils are starting to sprout lettuce and leeks, cabbage and capsicum thanks to a local government course in sustainable gardening...
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David Holmgren says cities can feed themselves...
Read MoreMARCH DAYS ARE MILD DAYS in the sleepy northern NSW town of Lismore. And this year they were no different...
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PTD — Participatory Technology Development — is an approach that encourages farmers to try out new techniques, to monitor results and to make decisions about adopting new farming techniques.
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