Over at The Age newspaper, feature writer Katherine Kizilos has been writing an excellent series of articles relating to urban food production, with many friends of Eat the Suburbs featured — even myself today, in an article about urban weed foraging. This is a compilation of some of Katherine’s recent great efforts.

Michael Pollan reminds us that, “The inspiration for organic was to find a way to feed ourselves more in keeping with the logic of nature, to build a food system that looked more like an ecosystem that would draw its fertility and energy from the sun. To feed ourselves otherwise was “unsustainable,” a word that’s [...]

I recently stumbled upon an excellent Sydney based site, WeedyConnection.com. It has a ‘useful weeds’ database, and a very pumping blog written in the second person about all things weedy and good. I’m an enthusiastic weed lover myself, and had a great email exchange with Nobody, the site’s keeper, and he’s published an interview with [...]

We don’t have to scratch so deeply to find concerns about economic, energy and food insecurity these days.