The household economy: time for reimagining?

February 11, 2015 Permaculture

I KNEW WHAT WAS HAPPENING when she got the big drum out from the back of the cupboard. “I”m going to bottle those cherries we got yesterday”, Fiona…

From mountain to museum

December 29, 2014 Memoir

I made these photos at Launceston's Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery at Inveresk last week. They show some of the artefacts used by a Tasmanian Bushwalker of…

The household solution — too small to push change?

November 25, 2014 Permaculture

I RECEIVED an email from Permaculture Australia recently promoting online videos of Nicole Foss and David Holmgren. So I took a look. The email made reference to their…

The community gardens network: one of the fair food movement’s early organisations

November 19, 2014 The alt.food movement

Community gardeners — they're a community of practice long a part of the fair food movement in Australia…

Needed: Simple, focused, tangible goals

November 12, 2014 The alt.food movement

The community food movement: a series about the emerging social movement around food… THE FAIR FOOD MOVEMENT is diverse and fractured. It is made up of small organisations each…

Farms — for agriculture or tourists?

September 7, 2014 The alt.food movement

SOMETIMES, you stumble on an interesting story by accident. A story that has some resonance with your own experience. A story that makes you think. That happened this…