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Community Gardens Australia

Locality: Sydney, Australia

Address: Sydney region 2000 Sydney, NSW, Australia

Website: https://communitygarden.org.au

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25.01.2022 We can't do this without you! ~ please share Tag your local #communitygardens https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2019gardensurvey

24.01.2022 JOURNALISM, A PRACTICE OPEN TO ALL For those who would like to write for their community organisation or NGO, for those who would like to start their own blog, there's Citizen Journalism. Citizen Journalism is an ongoing collection that forms a how-to-get-started guide. We look at ideas in the online media world, the ethics and practices of journalism we bring over from the days of print and broadcast and mash together with digital media, getting started in journalistic writi...ng and bsic pohotography, equipment and mindset Take a look and see of you, too, would like to become a citizen journalist.

22.01.2022 Designed by permaculture educator and landscape architect, Steve Batley from Sydney Organic Gardens, rainwater at Randwick Sustainability Hub, a local government prototyping of permaculture ideas in local government, is direted to recharge the aquifer. Location: Eastern Suburbs, Sydney, Australia.

16.01.2022 They came from Darwin, Brisbane, the NSW North Coast, Sydney and as far south as Melbourne. What was it that would motivate food systems advocates to come all t...hat way? It was this: the opportunity to attend a workshop with the director of the long-running US food advocacy organisation FOOD FIRST, Eric Holt-Giminez. The workshop congealed around the establishment and work of food policy councils. Organised by Sydney University’s Sydney Environment Institute and supported by the university’s Sydney Policy Lab, the workshop in the rooftop room and edibly landscaped garden at 107 Redfern Street, Redfern, brought together a convivium of people that included: - Brisbane writer and researcher on social movements around food, Eva Perron - Catriona Macmillan, food advocate and organic industry veteran - Brisbane Food Alliance and food systems blogger, Kylie Newberry - Young Farmers Alliance and CSA Network Australia’s Joel Orchard - Robert McDougal, a PhD student researching community gardens - Tirrania Suhood from InCollaboration and the New Economy Network Australia Luke Craven, Right To Food Alliance and author of a forthcoming book on food systems - rural planning specialist and educator, Ian Sinclair - Alana Mann, chair, Media & Communications, Sydney Environment Institute - and more. There must have been around 16 there. It was a coming together of many of the core people, the influencers, the advocates, the researchers, the communicators of Australia’s fair food movement. Food First’s Eric Holt-Giminez and workshop participants discussed the value of and how to set up food policy councils. The councils are alliances of varied interests in the food supply chain and form a countercurrent to the neoliberal model of the mainstream food industry. For Catriona Macmillan and I, the workshop harked back to our work with the Sydney Food Fairness Alliance over a decade ago when a food policy council was on the agenda. MANY IDEAS There was analysis and discussion of the fair food movement, the social movement. A few of the ideas coming out of that include: - there is no lack of information about what’s wrong; it is hard to wade through it all - the public countermovement pushing back is not strong enough, but is growing; unlike the unified labour movement of the thirties the countermovement is incredibly diverse but fragmented (food movement fragmentation was raised by several people) - there are too many issues in the food movement; we need one issue with numerous participants - we are working in silos - there is a lack of resources in rural areas - we should leverage existing infrastrucuture in our work rather than reinvent it - the movement needs to build strategic alliances based on shared values - the context or our work is the public sphere. The workshop demonstrated three things: - how bringing in someone with experience from outside can stimulate creative thinking - how the social movement around a better food system has grown and broadened since the days of the Sydney Food Fairness Alliance and the time when four of us set up the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance - how developing a Food policy council and the work around doing that congeals the social movement around food and gives it political and social context. And, did I say how good the food was? #fairfood #foodpolicycouncils #socialmovements

15.01.2022 Looking for something to do on Saturday 10 November between 10am-2pm? Then come and have a sticky beak at Miranda Community Garden https://communitygarden.org.au//open-day-miranda-communit/

15.01.2022 SYDNEY WORKSHOP STIMULATES FAIR FOOD MOVEMENT The idea of setting up a food policy council got a boost when the Sydney Environment Institute hosted a workshop w...ith US Food First president, Eric Holt-Gimenez, in late-October this year. The one-day event attracted fair food system activists and bloggers from several states as well as from North Coast NSW. The workshop preceded the New Economy Network Australia's national conference in Melbourne at which Holt-Giminez spoke about food issues. The conference was notable for the prominence of food and for the food projects presented there.(https://medium.com//ideas-economic-and-edible-flow-at-thir). Here is a brief report on the food policy council workshop in Sydney https://medium.com//our-food-future-workshop-explores-role Sydney Environment Institute Building a New Economy for Australia #foodfirst #EriccHoltGiminez #foodsecurity

08.01.2022 Maybe gardeners from Sydney would like to go to Canberra for the day on Sun 11 November for the Canberra City Farm open day? https://communitygarden.org.au//canberra-city-farm-open-d/

07.01.2022 Construction of the Permaculture Interpretive Garden started in 2010. The Garden was opened in May of that year. Works continued in the Garden over successive y...ears as it came into use as a venue for council resilient living courses, a popular picnic area and as part of a new regional park in Sydney's Eastern suburbs. See more

04.01.2022 PUBLIC PERMACULTURE AND THE LEGALS When we invite visitors on a guided tour or to workshops on our permaculture property or community garden, we assume a legal... duty of care for their wellbeing and that of their property. Here's a non-lawyer's undersatnding of how that duty of care affects how we manage our property to fulfill that duty. https://medium.com//the-legals-our-duty-of-care-to-visitor

03.01.2022 Not many people or pets on this yet, but let’s spread the word and get this happening! Great initiative linking fertiliser with gardeners! https://poopforplants.com.au/explore/#l=1

02.01.2022 MICHAEL BAUWENS COOPERATION, COLLABORATION, COMMUNITY AND HOW TO GET THERE There are still tickets available for this event on cooperation and collaboaration ...this Monday evening ALL OF US working in permaculture know if its ethics of Earth and peoplecare and the distribution of surplus resources to enable others to meet their needs. This Monday evening, those of us in Sydney have the chance to learn about how that is being done and of new ways we could use to achieve those ends. The event is: Common Passion Sydney: COOPERATION AND COLLABORATION FOR RESILIENT COMMUNITIES an evening with Michel Bauwens. WHO IS MICHAEL BAUWENS? Michael if the founder of P2P Foundation, a global network of researchers and practitioners working in face-to-face and on-line communities for the common good and for the care of the Earth. Michel is a global voice who has inspired and supported many initiatives in Australia and across the world working towards true sharing economies and resilient communities. DISCUSSION POINTS The event will consider the following questions: - how do we get from winner-takes-all to everyone-has-plenty? - how do we properly recognise each of us for the contribution we make to health and wealth in our communities? - how do we protect and strengthen our communities and care for the Earth with everything we do? - how do we draw from the strengths of different organisational forms including cooperatives, non- government organisations, social enterprise and government to collaborate effectively towards the common good? WHAT WE WILL LEARN Come to this event to: - learn about the commons and cooperative ways of living and working - hear about what is already happening in Sydney, Australia and globally - find out how we can promote wellbeing and ensure everyone has access to food, housing, energy and essential needs - consider how we can work together, design our organisations, our platforms, our communities and our society in ways so that we can truly care for each other - consider what stronger collaboration amongst cooperatives, NGOs, and social enterprises can do, with government playing an enabling role - experience a sense of community as we engage with each other in facilitated dialogue Participants will join Michel Bauwens to explore strengths, opportunites and challenges in communities and networks, and collaborative ways forward using a facilitated tranformational design process. DATE: Mon 24th September, 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm. VENUE: Sydney Startup Hub, Level 4, 11-31 York Street, Sydney CBD. FEE: $40. BOOKINGS: https://events.humanitix.com.au/common-passion-city/tickets PROFIT SHARE: Booking fee profit share goes to food rescue organisation, OzHarvest feeding hungry Australians while reducung food waste.