I’m back! After a long time away I have returned more inspired than ever to write about the wonderful examples of sustainable cities that I witnessed on my 8 month trip in the Americas. One of the reasons that I was absent from the Brisbane to Bogota blog was that I was finishing my research [[...]
Archive for the ‘Edible Cities’ Category
March 27th, 2011 - 11:06 pm § in Blogroll, Edible Cities, Sustainable Cities, Sustainable Design, Sustainable Village, Transition Towns
Urban Agriculture and City Farms and their role in Community Engagement
August 12th, 2010 - 12:31 am § in Blogroll, Edible Cities
The fruits of Brisbane!
It has come to my attention that there are two interesting maps that can be accessed through google maps, for those who are interested in finding some free food to munch on, that is growing in and along our beloved Brisbane streets. The Edible Brisbane: Public Fruit Map & The Brisbane Feral Fru[...]
Hugh’s Edible Britain – Landshare and Guerrilla Gardening in Britain
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 ce[...]
December 28th, 2009 - 9:43 am § in Blogroll, Edible Cities
Balaangala Community Group
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[...]
December 21st, 2009 - 11:39 pm § in Blogroll, Edible Cities
Northey Street City Farm
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 En[...]
Wild Food in the City
I was wandering around Kelvin Grove Urban Village (KGUV) this morning, which is a 16 hectare master-planned community that demonstrates best practice in sustainable, mixed-use urban development in Brisbane. While I was there I saw few dismal looking ornamental potted plants beside a street cafe and [...]
