The Future of Local Food

The Future of Local Food episodes:

• 04.10.2016

  11: Tom’s Paddock: Synergistic Increases To Productivity On Small Farms’, Tom Abbottsmith Youl

  Over three generations, the Abbott Smith family on Graceburn Farm has aimed to create a balance between conservation, primary production and life-style on their 130 hectare property situated in the Yea Valley. Our ecologically sustainable farming practices produce food products,...

  
• 04.02.2016

  10: Creating a food story through partnership and pilots, Rachel Brown, Surf Coast Shire

  We would like to demonstrate how relationships and trust helped us deliver three exciting pilots in the Surf Coast Shire in 2015 and helped us to create a local food movement. The Good Fish Project, Local Food Loop (a local...

  
• 03.19.2016

  9: The Importance Of Growing Our Own - Tino Carnevale, Gardening Australia

  Born and bred in Tasmania, Tino’s lifelong interest in plants and gardening stems from growing up on his family’s small vineyard and olive grove. He studied landscape design at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and has an Associate Diploma...

  
• 03.12.2016

  8: Home Harvest Feast - Fleur Anderson And Kirsty Merritt

  Currently Nillumbik Shire Council and Banyule City Council partner to deliver the Home Harvest Feast. The Feast aims to celebrate local food, the home grower and create better connectivity through the conversation of food. Growers donate home grown produce, we...

  
• 03.05.2016

  7: Veronica Graham - Creating A Vibrant Healthy Eating Culture Using A Systems Approach To Prevention Across Victoria

  Obesity is a complex issue caused by multiple factors, many of which are beyond an individual’s control. To meet this challenge, Healthy Together Victoria (HTV) is taking a complex systems approach to prevention, delivering multiple policies and strategies at both...

  
• 02.27.2016

  6: Kat Lavers - The ‘My Smart Garden’ Project

  My Smart Garden is a collaboration between Hobsons Bay, Maribyrnong and Moonee Valley City Councils, and aims to mitigate climate change impacts and increase the health, wellbeing and resilience of our residents by helping them to produce fruit and veg,...

  
• 02.20.2016

  5: Tammi Jonas – Whole-carcass Butchering and Community Supported Agriculture

  Tammi is the President of the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance. As well as answering questions about Fair Food – The Documentary, Tammi will also discuss her recent 3 week fair food tour of the United States. A former vegetarian academic,...

  
• 02.09.2016

  Ep 4: Bec Murphy - The Lower Hume Street Harvest Project

  Poor access to affordable nutritious food often leads to an increased consumption of cheaper energy dense nutrient poor alternatives. The aim of the Street Harvest project in Murrindindi shire was to increase access to nutritious foods for those who could...

  
• 02.02.2016

  Chris Balasz - Exploring barriers to small scale meat production

  The Sage concept originated from farmer Chris Balazs from La Finca farm. He originally wanted to process his own premium Hereford cattle for family and friends and maybe sell at a farmers market or two. Four years on however and...

  
• 01.26.2016

  Adam Grubb - The Permaculture Design Process

  Adam shares some fundamentals of design thinking that are useful in any situation, and the experience of tuning into people and landscape to create permaculture inspired urban designs. This will include designing to microclimates, designing to flows of people and...

  
• 01.18.2016

  Nick Rose - Creating a fairer food system

  Nick is the National Coordinator of the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance and has been a driving force of AFSA since its inception in July 2010. In September 2013 he was also appointed as Project Coordinator, Food Systems, for the Food...