For anyone interested in learning about indigenous community gardens and social enterprises in Australia I recently discovered this wonderful website and resource, http://www.remoteindigenousgardens.net/
It has lists of indigenous gardens across Australia and access to resources and information.
I recently visited the market village of Axminster on the South West English coast, where the River Cottage Canteen is situated. River Cottage Canteen is the British celebrity chef Hugh Fearnly Wittingstall’s (HFW) cafe and local store. Why am I writing about a celebrity chef? Well HFW is a c[...]
I recently reported that I was in Thailand for a couple for weeks a couple of weeks ago, and I noticed a sign for Bangkok (BKK) car free day, however the rest of the text was in Thai so I was unable to ascertain when it was. This sign intrigued me because BKK is one [...][...]
Well I have been out of Australia for just over 3 weeks and unfortunately I have been sick for most of it and have as yet been unable to see much sustainability in motion. However I have been able to learn and read about lots more initiatives and caught up on some writing about a couple of s[...]
Balaangala Community Group is a reconciliation group that formed as a result of responding to ‘GetUp!’ (an online independent, grass-roots community advocacy organisation), that was requesting people or groups to start a conversation about ‘reconciliation’. From this Balaang[...]
Northey Street City Farm is a three hectare permaculture city farm in my city ‘Brisbane’. NSCF was the first community garden in Brisbane and was started in 1992 by Dick Copeman and a group of his friends. The site where Northey Street City Farm is, was council land situated on[...]
Well the time is nigh… Departure date is looming and yet my blog is still not yet ready for launch. The reason for my absence of late is because of my final uni exam on the topic of Global and Regional Sustainability. Uni studies, wrapping up at my job in community mental health and packing [.[...]
