Local Food at it’s best! Each week we buy amazing, local, organically grown produce from the community garden. The proceeds of their sale goes towards improving the infrastructure at the garden which is available for anyone in the community to get involved with! All members get a key and can secure their own plot for…
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We had a lot of fun filming with Tony Eastley and the Landline crew for this piece. I am always so grateful for the media in their support in sharing good news stories AND to those who I bring along and challenge to step outside their comfort zone to share THEIR good news stories. Ashley…
We grow lots of food in the outback of Australia – we eat mostly from our own garden, supplemented by meat from local farmers or from suppliers we have found and mindfully purchased consumables – organic if we can, but not always. We don’t spend thousands of dollars. We consume consciously even though we live in…
Allan Savoury is a really smart guy – clearly, he is doing a TED talk! I remember seeing a variation of this presentation at the Sustainable Living Festival in Armidale a few years ago and I recall being seriously blown away by the simplicity of the point of view. It was the first time I…
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…
Ashley and Ronnie Steed are a couple of pioneers when it comes to food production in a semi-arid environment. They have spent the best part of the last decade or more perfecting their veggie patch, orchard and most recently; their aquaponics set up. Not only are they supplying their own healthy and delicious food from…
This morning I sat with an ABC journalist – Sally Bryant, in my backyard and we talked about The Hungry Spirit Centre for Semi-Arid Sustainability. It was, as it always is with Sal, a great yarn with lots of ebbs and flows! When it came time for the inevitable ‘photo shoot’ in the garden, I…
I have spent the better part of the past 2 weeks on the phone speaking with INCREDIBLE people in the Northern Territory, preparing for our Medibank funded Healthy Places Traditional Wisdom Mentor Training in Alice Springs and Darwin later in the year. What it has reminded me is that community development is a TOUGH gig!…
