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Good ideas flow at Sydney urban farming event
March 3, 2018 | Russ GraysonIt was the conversation rather than the presentations that made the Sydney Environment Institutes Urban Farming — Feeding the Future a source of good information and ideas.Read More
In Adelaide, a small urban farm links entrepreneurship with good food
November 14, 2015 | Russ GraysonWith around nine city farms already on the ground or in planning around Australia, it appears city farming’s time is now.
In Adelaide, one of their number, Wagtail Urban Farm, is showing that small can certainly be bountiful…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
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
Social planning comes first in community garden design
August 1, 2012 | Russ GraysonIT’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.
Green Square Growers get going at The Tote
March 24, 2012 | Russ GraysonTHESE URBAN FOOD ENTHUSIASTS call themselves Green Square Growers, and they’re a new group living adjacent to the brownfields that will soon house an additional 20,000 people in what s going to be a major urban renewal. Some live in Victoria Park, a large cluster of medium density apartments that offers a foretaste of what will appear in Green Square.
Collaboration, participation build something new on something old
August 18, 2009 | Russ GraysonAt 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…Read More
David Holmgren: design approach to food security
July 26, 2007 | Russ Grayson | One CommentBy Russ Grayson. First published 2007.
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