All Blog Posts Tagged 'community' (12)

Ooooby is a place to connect and trade with over 4000 food growers around New Zealand.



We deliver local food to your…

Continue

http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/foodprog#playepisode3

The Food Programme hears from the people coming up with new ideas and fresh thinking about how and where we produce food for the UK's future. From computer programmers creating networks for people trading food locally through to community supported market gardens, Sheila Dillon finds out how a new generation is coming up with radical…

Continue

Michael Pollan wrote in the New York Times about the community eating experiment he participated in recently: build a single wood fire and, over the course of 30-plus hours, use it to roast, braise, bake, simmer and grill as many different dishes as possible — for lunch, dinner, breakfast and lunch again.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/magazine/10dinner-t.html?_r=2&ref=dining

Continue

Continue

Sumner Bays Union Trust has two community gardens under its umbrella in Christchurch. They are Sumner Community Garden and Redcliffs Community Garden "The Onion Patch". Each garden is different and defined by its physical location. Redcliffs is located on a former children's play area behind the Union Church on Augusta, and the Sumner garden is located beneath a cliff face behind the Anglican Church on Wakefield Avenue. Both have a core group of locals who work on the…

Continue

I've had my entry accepted in the Happyzine Dream to Reality environmental goal competition. The competition called for entrants to submit a proposal based on an environmental goal they'd like to achieve in their community this year. The winner will get mentoring, support and publicity to achieve their goal. Continue

Good magazine needs collaborators to help compile a list and map of all the community gardens in New Zealand. We've just started it, so we need lots of help! If you know of a community garden that isn't listed, please leave a comment at the link below with its name, address (incl region) and website (if it has one).



www.good.net.nz/magazine/community-gardens



Please feel free to leave forward the… Continue

Below is a blog i posted already on journey4planetearth.ning.com, You are all familiar with the idea of a poluck, this blog is meant to stimulate thoughts about these type of events.





Hey people, to give you an idea what a community cook up might look like I have pasted an invite I used to send out to people for one friends and I organized. I have bolded it so as not to confuse it with the main text. This is not an invite to an event but merely a primer to get you… Continue

Landslide radical community farm is located in the Hill District of Pittsburgh PA and has been working hard on expanding it's amazing urban permaculture and community efforts this spring. See more at: punk rock permaculture… Continue

A campaign has just been launched to plant food forest across America.
To find excellent resources and more info see: punk rock permaculture e-zine.

- Paint up some funky Ooooby signs.

- Tell people that you are hosting a trade table at your stall where people can bring their homegrown fruit and veg and swap them with other homegrown produce. Koha if someone wants something but has nothing to swap for it.

- Put an ad or article in your local rag.

- Find local commercial food growers and ask if they will supply you with any of their surplus... on consignment perhaps?

- Get… Continue