Sustainable Gardening Australia - possibilities when communities grow their own food - urban agriculture

Sustainable Gardening Australia 

invites you to join an informal gathering where participants will engage in discussion regarding:

What are the possibilities when modern communities

grow more of their own food?

 The evening will conclude with questions 

addressed by a panel including: 

Natasha Kuperman (Founder of My Home Harvest)

Cam Walker (Friends of the Earth)

Peter Huff (Urban Agriculture Facilitator, City of Yarra)

When:

Monday June 17^th 2013 from 7:00-9:00 pm

Where:

Function Room, The Courthouse Hotel, 615 Sydney Rd, Brunswick

Transport:  

Tram, Train (Anstey Station), 

Car (Sydney Rd meter free after 6pm)

You can purchase meals and drinks at The Courthouse 

and there are lots of great eateries on Sydney Road.

  

To Register for this event go to:http://www.trybooking.com/Booking/BookingEventSummary.aspx?eid=50481

Places for this free event are limited so book early, 

and please let us know if you are then unable to attend 

so we can give someone else your place. 

 Last Sunday afternoon, a gracious friend of mine took me
to a High Tea at

 St Stephen's Bayswater.

 The afternoon was organised by an NGO called

Australia Aids South Africa.

As the name implies, the organisation works to assist

AIDS victims in South Africa.

 The hall at Stephen's was packed.

There was wonderful music from talented local people.

As well as my friend and her lovely family,

I also enjoyed the presence at our table of

St Stephen's vicar, Father David.

Each table had its own host.

The host (or hostess if you prefer) provided
all the beautiful napery and tableware.

I thought this was a great idea -

since it split so much of the organisation, responsibility and work.

Beverages, it should be noted, were not limited to coffee and tea!

I did enjoy the champers in beautiful fluted glasses -

and the flowers and chocolates, too.

I think the afternoon was a marvellous social success.

I am sure the hard work was rewarded, as well, with financial success.

Thank you, Australia Aids South Africa.

Picture from here

You're invited to attend a Live Export Forum 

organised by the City of Fremantle.

At the event you'll hear from a panel of speakers discussing the progress being made to end live export, why they're personally against the trade, and the effects it has on animal welfare, our overall economy, employment and Australia's reputation.

You'll also have the opportunity to participate 

in a unique public action to help end the trade!

Where: 

Fremantle Town Hall, 8 William Street, Fremantle

When: 

Tuesday 12th October 2010, 6pm, for a 6.30pm start

RSVP: 

Email humanechain@wspa.org.au by 11th October and let us know if you and any of your friends would like to attend.

Panel speakers will include:

• Brad Pettitt, Mayor of Fremantle
• The Hon. Melissa Parke, Federal Labor MP for Fremantle
• Representatives from the meat processing industry and meatworkers union
• The Hon. Lynn MacLaren, Greens MLC
• Jessica Borg, Campaign Manager, WSPA
• Jodie Jankevics, Campaign Manager, Stop Live Exports

We hope to see you there! If you are unable to attend please check back here on the Humane Chain blog for event updates, or follow our tweets from the forum. Please help us promote the event by re-posting this story on Facebook.

Ethics of Eating Meet Up - Melbourne Writers Festival : Friday 29 August 2010

Good Morning, Tucker Lovers,

I am inviting you to a Meet Up.  The Melbourne Writers Festival starts next month and I thought if any one is interested we could have a Meet Up at one of the programmed events and do coffee somewhere nice afterwards.  What do you thinK?  Interested?  The event I am suggesting is food relevant and, I am sure, will be of great interest.

THE ETHICS OF EATING

 60 MINS

What does it mean to eat ethically?

Should we eat locally grown, in season,

GM/chemically free produce,

sold at the local farmer's market?

What is the place of the industrial food complex?

Join gourmet farmer, Matthew Evans

food sociologist, Gyorgy Scrinis

CEO of Fareshare, Marcus Godinho

and journalist Margaret Simons to find out.

WHEN

Friday August 27

1pm

WHERE

ACMI Cinema 2

AFTERWARDS

This is to be advised

Please forward suggestions

There is a cost for this event plus you will need some money for refreshments at a restaurant afterwards.  To purchase tickets for the event - and you should do this soon since some MWF events are already sold out - please follow this link.  Cost for early birds  is $18 full and $16.50 concession.  If you are a lucky one with a pass, you will have to book but you will enter your pass number.  When you have done all that, could you please advise me that you are coming by emailing me at misseaglesnetwork(at)gmail(dot)com.  If you have a food blog, please let me know just in case I haven't discovered you yet. 

Related reading:

 

The Real Food Companion 

 Engineering the foodchain: Gyorgy Scrinis asks us to look the gift horse of GM wholefoods squarely in the mouth.: An article from: Arena Magazine

When small isn't beautiful: Gyorgy Scrinis cuts through the hype surrounding nanotechnology.: An article from: Arena Magazine

Colonising the seed: global corporations are engineering the way our food is produced.: An article from: Arena Magazine

Food, Morals and Meaning: The Pleasure and Anxiety of Eating, Second Edition

Ethical Eating: How to Make Food Choices That Won't Cost the Earth 

 

Eating 

The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter

Australian Institute of Food Science and Technology Convention, Melbourne : 25-27 July 2010.

Now perhaps this might look a bit specialised to you, Tucker-lovers, but I am posting it anyway because I thought it might be of interest.  I am the sort who thinks that an ounce of information is worth a pound of something or other. The story is that the Victorian Branch of the Australian Institute of Food Science and Technology is having their annual convention in Melbourne this month. You can find all the information you need over here including the downloading of the program.

Now I know that this is at the other end of the scale from those of us who want to sustain ourselves in our own patch and locality but I like to turn attention to what is happening in the mainstream to make good food and nutrition available to our kids and families at an affordable price irrespective on where in the wide brown land they live.  We cannot keep the good stuff accessible only as specialised offerings or things that we have to labour over when that process is not open to all in our society.  

So it is interesting to consider at what point the cross-over is made in the major distribution chains?  At what point is there a turning away from the processed stuff into a more whole and true food concept of what we consume and ingest?  I don't think I'll be going to the AIFST convention this year even if it is in Melbourne.  But if there are any intrepid Oz Tucker readers out there who are going, perhaps you could write a post-sized report for Oz Tucker, please and thank you.