Just a minor aero accident…
THE NEW CLASSROOM at Randwick Community Centre yesterday experienced its first, and hopefully only, aircraft accident. It went like this… I was with Fiona and we were walking across to open the new...
View ArticleLearning to create our new nature in the city…
AS THE COURSE PARTICIPANTS ARRIVE for the class they open jars containing soil samples from their gardens. These they tip onto small, white plastic panels. Opening a bottle of dark purple reagent, they...
View ArticleLike bees around a hive
Bees are important insects for our urban ecology and there's no shortage of people wanting to learn about them… Read More
View ArticleWhen the bees came to town
THERE IS A FASCINATION with bees and it is to do with more than eating the honey they produce. The decimation of overseas beehives by a new disease, the origin of which is still being worked out,...
View ArticleLocal government reform necessary to urgan 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
View ArticleConversation, conviviality and a food forest in the city — a fine place for a...
AN URBAN FOOD FOREST was a fine venue for the 2015 national gathering of the Australian City Farms & Commuhity Gardens Network. There, in a comfortable, solar powered, cement-rendered strawbale...
View ArticleA new classroom for Randwick
IT MUST BE A GOOD JOB to have, building new assets for council that create new opportunities for the local community. That’s Fiona Campbell’s lot in Randwick where, on the edge of the grassy patch...
View ArticleCommunity food growers converge on Rose Bay
IT WAS A FINE, late Autumn Sunday when Sydney community gardeners converged on Rose Bay Commuity Garden in harbourside Sydney. There, the good folk at the newish Rose Bay Community Garden were hosting...
View ArticleJune 2015 news summary: A new platform for open food, a dairy farm restart,...
SOMETIMES THERE’S A DELUGE of news and its hard to keep up with it. That’s what it’s been like this past week or so. In contrast to the serial reporting of bad and alarming news in the old and tired...
View ArticleAction needed now to stop farm labour exploitation
IN HER ARTICLE on the website of the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance, following the ABC TV 4 Corners revelations of 417 visa holders being exploited by unscrupulous labour hire companies and...
View ArticleVote preserves freedom for photographers
IN AUSTRALIA, photographers professional, editorial and amateur enjoy a freedom that was almost taken away from our European counterparts — our freedom to photograph any building, structure, person —...
View ArticlePhoto essays on Adobe Slate — 2015
Check out my latest iPad photo essays on Adobe Slate for 2015Read More
View ArticleLloyd Kahn — pioneer, builder, author, inspiration
Something of a latecomer to skateboarding, Lloyd Khan came early to owner-building, resilient living, writing and publishing…Read More
View ArticleThe fair food movement: morally superior and elitist?
Is the fair food movement being inadvertently elitist and morally superior? Does it position its participants above people who do not share its food values? Yes, says Rachel Ankeny, a history professor...
View ArticleNot a bad brew
The arrival of a package of coffee from northern NSW reminded me of encountering the beverage where it is grown in the PNG highlands…Read More
View ArticleOn the food frontline: seminar highlights growing challenge of food insecurity
Not knowing where next week's meals are coming from is something fortunately unknown to most if us. But, for a growing number of people its is a real question…Read More
View ArticleMade By Cow — authentically raw?
Made By Cow is a new milk product arriving on the market at a time when milk and the future of the dairy industry is in the news. The milk uses a new processing technology and claims to be raw. Raw...
View ArticleOur permaculture journey in images
Just like the fruit we eat has its season, so does the Permacultire Calendar. So, here again at this time of year we have a new edition of this perennial of the permaculture world...Read More
View ArticleThe new economy reborn in Sydney
August 2016 saw the rebirth of an alternative economics in Sydney with the Building the New Economy conference…Read More
View ArticleThe Next Big Step for permaculture
At the 2016 Australasian Permaculture Convergence in Perth, Western Australia, a first step towards the Next big Step…Read More
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