Local Food Connections

An impromptu episode after a last minute cancelation where Amy talks about her experience in the horticulture industry and global food injustices in Palestine, Kanaky and so called Australia. LinksLocal Food Connect WebsiteOur Soical MediaFor your union education: https://solidarity.net.au/Black Peoples UnionPiP Magazine - Indigenous KnowledgeSongs:Oom-Sha-La-La by Haley HeynderickxListen to Programming on Palestine:Palestine RememberedSalam Radio ShowSolidarity BreakfastAsia Pacific CurrentsListen to First Nations Issues on 3CR:Mondays11am The Black Block1pm Independant Black Media4pm Doin TimeTuesdays10am Billabong BeatsWednesdays11am Bunjil's Fire1pm Kultural KineticsThursdays2pm Balam WaaFridays11am Blak 'n' DeadlyA few clarifications from the episode:I mispoke, I did not mean to call into question Bruce Pascoe's first nations identity. I was refering to an on going to conversation on settler and First Nations authors using the specific intelectual property of other specfic First Nations in so-called Australia. Glyphosate aka Round Up, is a broadspectrum herbicide most commonly used in Australia. Over use of glyphosate damages soil health, exposes workers and people nearby to a carcengenic chemical.

Thrive Community Garden is located on previously under-used land in Diamond Creek, an outer-eastern suburb of Melbourne. Long time members, Peter and Sarah, talk about the garden's origins in agreement with the local Council, the joys of growing and harvesting food with others of all ages and the organic way in which people contributing their various skills keep the garden thriving.

Adam Grubb, co-author of The Weed Foragers Handbook joins us for a chat about the abundance of edible weeds all around us. Adam runs Very Edible Gardens (https://www.veryediblegardens.com.au/) helping people to set up permaculture gardens, building wicking beds, chook systems and edible landscapes.  Adam also offers guided walks around Merri Creek showing all the food that's growing for free and how to identify edible and non-edible plants.  https://www.veryediblegardens.com.au/events/edible-weeds-walk-91/Our socials and the Local Food Connect website:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/local_food_connections_3cr/(link is external)Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Local-Food-Connections-3CR(link is external)Local Food Connect: https://localfoodconnect.org.au/

At a beautiful farm and community hub in Wesburn, not-for-profit ECOSS supports food security, reconciliation, community connections, climate and environment issues, the arts and multiculturalism in the Yarra Valley.In this episode Executive Officer Chelsea McNab discusses the range of roles ECOSS plays and the financial realities of running a not-for-profit organisation.ECOSS is in urgent need of short-term financial assistance, as Chelsea outlines in the email below. If you would like to donate, go to https://ecoss.org.au/donations-page-frrr/'It comes with a heavy heart for us to let you know how dire the financial situation is with ECOSS at the moment.  I'm writing this in radical honesty, as most people do not understand what occurs in the Cogs of ECOSS.Many of you know that we have had to reduce staff hours in our essential and wonderful programs- Crops for Community and our Events and Market Coordination roles. This has been very difficult for the staff...We have strong vision and focus on our sustainability and are always striving to make ends meet, however we find ourselves in a hiatus requiring 6 months additional financial support. Can you please try hard help us bridge the gap in our finances for the next 6 months?We are hoping to reach our target of raising $15,000.Thankyou for your love and care for ECOSS, united we can do this!​For the love of our communityChelsea McNabExecutive Officer'Yarra Valley ECOSS

This week Amy Ciara goes on a tour of the Common Ground Project with Amy Tacey. The Common Ground Project is a regenerative farm and social enterprise that promotes food security by creating fair access to locally grown, healthy food. The farm and cafe are nestled in Freshwater Creek Victoria conveintly between the City of Greater Geelong and The Surf Coast on Wadawurrung land.Check out the Common Ground Project Here:Website: https://www.commongroundproject.com.au/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/common_ground_projectFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/commongroundprojectaustralia Check out our soicals and the Local Food Connect website here:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/local_food_connections_3cr/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Local-Food-Connections-3CRLocal Food Connect: https://localfoodconnect.org.au/

In this episode, we're chatting with Patrick Wain. Patrick is the Therapeutic Horticulture Co-ordinator at Kevin Heinze GROW which is a Garden Centre established in Doncaster 1979 by the late celebrity gardener Kevin Heinze. It's a place where people with disabilities can come together to experience the therapeutic value of gardening. There is now a second garden at Coburg as well as the original one at Doncaster.The 2024 Annual Spring Celebration is on soon!Where: 39 Wetherby Rd, Doncaster 3108When: Saturday 12 October from 9amWhy: a huge variety of heirloom tomato seedlings for sale at good prices, fun for all the family and a chance to find out more about the therapeutic horticulture programs offered.There will be a similar event at the Coburg site in November.https://www.facebook.com/kevinheinzegrow/Local Food Connections thanks Formidable Vegetable for their song You Are What You EatFollow us on Social Media and check out our affiliate Local Food Connect msha.ke/localfoodconnections3cr

Why can't we have commonly owned land to grow, house and feed ourselves? Isn't food a human right? Why do we pay for food? Are our food systems fair on farmers and workers? Amy sits down with activist and host of Anarchist World this Week, Radical Australia and Talkback with Attitude, Jo Toscano. Amy asks Jo about his understanding of the commons and enclosure and how it has played out locally, in Victoria. If you like listening to Jo you can catch him at the following:Anarchist World This Week - 3CRRadical Australia - 3CRTalkback with Attitude - 3CRPublic Interest Before Coporate Interest Joe on FacebookFollow us on Social Media and check out our affiliate Local Food Connect msha.ke/localfoodconnections3cr

In this episode Angelo Eliades chats about the many jobs you can do in your temperate region food garden in August to prepare it for Spring planting, and also about the veggies you can plant now, as winter winds down.For all of Angelo's planting guides, no matter what Australian climate zone you live in, and much more, go to https://deepgreenpermaculture.com/Our socials:msha.ke/localfoodconnections3crLocal Food Connections thanks Formidable Vegetable for their song You Are What You Eat

The production of ultra-processed food is driven by the profit motive at the heart of the centralised, industrialised food system which, this show argues, is unsustainable. Today sustainability educator Kirsty Bishop-Fox unpacks what we mean by ultra-processed food and how it differs from processed and whole food. Book mentioned in this episode: Chris van Tullekin Ultra-Processed People Kirstyhttps://www.sustainabilitypathways.com.au/ Our socialsmsha.ke/localfoodconnections3cr

Dr Chris Williams teaches Horticulture at Melbourne University's Burnley Campus. The Field Station at Burnley has been teaching horticulture, including the cultivation of food plants, since the early days of the colony. Continuing with this tradition, Chris teaches a post-graduate course,  Food Production for Urban Landscapes,  in which he puts urban agriculture in its historical context, teaches the fundamental skills for successful food growing and questions the potential for urban agriculture to meet the needs of city dwellers in the modern world.  Chris has been closely associated with urban agriculture through his expert contributions to Cultivating Community, The Collingwood Childrens Farm, Fare Share, The United African Farm and Farm Raiser, and understands well the challenges of small scale food production in an urban context.  Local Food Connections Socials and Local Food Connect:msha.ke/localfoodconnections3cr