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…
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!…
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 New Food Business In THE Outback! The Hungry Spirit – Centre for Semi-Arid Sustainability Are you a young, adventurous, fabulous, hard- working, values driven entrepreneurial permaculture couple that would do anything for the chance to realize your dreams of implementing your food business dreams – but…
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…
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…
I am in love with my veggie patch at the moment and the funny thing is that it is the messiest, most unruly and least organised it has EVER been, in a decade or more…no I am serious, it is!!! But that is what I love about it. We have so many self sown broccoli that…