Tag Archives: local food

Pay the farmer, or pay the doctor. Your choice.

Punchy little video piece about re-localisation of food, with soundtrack by Willie Nelson covering Coldplay.

As one of the comments on the post says “When I buy naturally raised meats I don’t think, “This costs so much!”, rather I know, “This is money that won’t be going toward chemo.” You will either pay the farmer or the doctor. It’s your choice.”

Although It’s possible to make this call as a consumer who can afford to do so, that call is an extremely hard one to make for many non-middle class folks trapped inside an industrialized food web. And that is the real grit of this issue, in my opinion…

A Permaculture Kitchen Garden for LoveGrub

Lovely lettuce seedlings. Soon to be in LoveGrub sandwiches!

Around the corner from the community center where we run our Sydney courses is a funky and friendly little cafe called LoveGrub. Down the side of LoveGrub lies a little strip of dirt which the cafe have claimed as their garden. One day LoveGrub asked us “erm, don’t suppose you could turn our little garden into a happening thing, could you?”

So we said “Yes! Of course!” – and with the help of our fabulous Milkwood interns David, Andrew, Adam and Alexe, we did. We used the opportunity of a weekend Urban Permaculture course we were running to completely re-design and renovate LoveGrub’s little strip into a functional permaculture kitchen garden to supplement the cafe’s menu with uber-local, naturally grown, seasonal greens and herbs. Read More »

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