The Transition Towns concept is one of the world’s most important movements — systemic, broad reaching relocalisation schemes which seek to address both peak oil and climate change whilst creating lively and livable towns and suburbs. Community activists in the Sunshine Coast led by permaculturists Sonya Wallace and Janet Millington have been working towards […]
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 […]
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 […]
We don’t have to scratch so deeply to find concerns about economic, energy and food insecurity these days.
[I’m publishing this ‘as is’ for comments/corrections. It’s a reference document in progress for how much energy/water/greenhouse gas/landfill might be saved by home food gardening. I’ve been regularly updating the article, the last was to include more embodied water information on 6 December 2007, and new greenhouse emission information added 11 December. -Adam]
How […]
John Anderson is the former leader of the National Party, Deputy Prime Minister and Federal Minister for Primary Industries and Energy. He’s retiring at the coming election to go back to the farm. As Deputy Prime Minister in 2004 he was one of the first significant politicians globally to acknowledge peak oil. He’s […]
This article via The Age:
Slice food bill, avoid drought: grow vegiesLucinda Ormonde, John Elder in The AgeSeptember 23, 2007
RIP out your camellias and plant carrots instead.
That’s the advice of the Australian Vegetable and Potato Growers Association, which says growing your own vegetables could help combat rising food prices and a potential shortage of fresh […]
It’s been a long time since this page was updated, but that doesn’t mean that a lot hasn’t been going on in Melbourne’s world of post-petroleum preparations, urban and suburban greening projects and relocalisation happenings:
4th Annual City Farms & Community Gardens Conference was held in Melbourne last month featuring the brilliance of […]
[ Australia is facing the worst drought in recorded history, and as part of the response the government is targeting home gardeners. Beth Spencer questions if this is really the best place to begin water restrictions. -Adam ]
Dealing with stage 3 water restrictions […]