Craig Reucassel: Warrior against Australia’s War on Waste
Craig Reucassel first etched his way into our memory through the various stunts he and the Chaser team performed over the years. Through his familiar use of humour and satire, he's once again captured the hearts and minds of Australian?s, this time challenging us to...
South East Queensland Urban Farm Gathering
A place where farmers, chefs and advocates came together to discuss local food systems. Earlier in the year, I had the pleasure of attending a gathering of urban farmers from across South East Queensland (SEQ), in my hometown of Brisbane. It was a fantastic...
Emma-Kate Rose: Transforming people?s attitudes through food
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.? - R. Buckminster Fuller Emma-Kate Rose is well versed in advocating for change as part of Australia?s fair food movement. She has...
Thor Svensen: Leader in creating a transparent and sustainable community food system
?Be the change you wish to see in the world? is the sage advice from Mahatma Gandhi. Many of us are familiar with this well known quote, yet how many of us choose to act on it? Thor Svensen, founder of Sovereign Foods, is one such change-maker, creating a transparent...
Joel Orchard: Small scale farmer and big future thinker
What started out as an aspiration to be self sufficient, has evolved into a vision to grow and support young farmers into a profession that has enormous reward, alongside huge risk, immense challenges and a great deal of fulfillment. What?s more Joel can see the...
Deep Winter 2017: Sowing the seeds for our farming future
The air was cool and crisp, as I set out for Deep Winter just after sunrise, eager to meet some farmers and foster a connection with those responsible for one of the most important duties on this planet, feeding people. As I drove south to Bangalow, the winter sun...
Book Review: ?Food?
There is a complexity and fragility of our global food system that is hard to comprehend for most of us in the Western world. When we walk into a supermarket we are spoilt for choice. We have pretty much anything and everything available to us in a convenient...
Serving up sustainability on a plate
Please bear with me for a moment. I'm going to throw two questions at you and I want you to take some time to think through them, if only for a few seconds. The first question is, do you think you eat healthy? It's a broad question I know. And the way you answer it...
Connecting the dots on a joined up food policy
There have been many calls to action in the past few months for integrated food policy. Harvard has just released a Blueprint for National Food Strategy, which provides a plan for action for creating a national food strategy in the US. The International Panel...
It?s a fizzer – government rejects tax on sugary drinks
Taste the feeling. You can visualise it can?t you? That iconic bottle of fizz. It provides so much more than just an ability to quench ones thirst. It provides happiness, joy, sexiness?. but wait? Does it really? The psychology applied to marketing soft drink is...