I have spent the last 13 years working in community development in Outback Australia and there is one thing I have noticed…things aren’t getting better, despite best intentions and millions of dollars and some good ideas. The reason I believe is that the model for community development is flawed, fundamentally, because we have government and…
My husband and I are LOVING our little jaunt up the west coast of Australia sampling the fine produce on offer, but I have to say that the food available for easy consumption is pretty dismal and in most places, you have to really hunt out the local produce. We were pretty disappointed when we…
I came across this video on Greening The Desert in my research on permaculture and semi-arid environments and it got me even more fired up about sharing the knowledge, skills, principles of permaculture in semi arid western nsw. ‘All the world’s problems can be solved in a garden’ Geoff Lawton is a pretty powerful statement…
I was picking spinach from my garden the other day and it reminded me of my Pa, Roderick Black. Weird maybe, but it did and it did because he used to grow it for our family and we had it at just about every meal. We ate Pa’s love almost daily in our house. What…
Feed Your Hungry Spirit As The Owner Of A Food Business In THE Outback! The Hungry Spirit – Centre for Semi-Arid Syntropy Are you a young, adventurous, fabulous, hard- working, values driven entrepreneurial couple that would do anything for the chance to realize your dreams of implementing your food business dreams – but don’t have…
In 2011 I started an online business called I’m Not Fussy and Lee Holmes was one of our founding contributors, she’d been on an incredible healing journey through food and that year, launched her first book, Supercharged Food. Since then her career has really taken off; she’s a regular contributor to several global food publications, she’s written…
We are really excited to be bringing FRESH Organic Regional and Local Produce to Lightning Ridge and surrounding towns. And we are thrilled with the great response we are getting! Each week we get a new delivery of vegetables and fruits from south east Queensland and we also supply Local Free Range Eggs and Local Herbs and Leafy…
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So here is a pattern that I am seeing all too frequently and I don’t like it… There is this crazy and entirely unsustainable mantra in community development that you are a bad person if you make money and that all true givers are broke. It stems from the religion based penance poverty mentality I…