Calling for the right to food in the Federal Election
In the lead up to the 2022 federal election, we are asking all candidates to pledge their support for realising the Right to Food for all people in Australia. Join us in the pledge to ensure healthy food access to all. Our friend’s at Australia’s Right to Food Coalition have put together some resources to […]
Recipe: Choko Curry
Fair Food Champion Penny Thompson shares her delicious choko, carrot and shiitake mushroom curry with us – perfect for the colder days! Choko’s, grown on a climbing plant, are available in the autumn months. Their mild and versatile flavour (smilar to a zucchini or cooked apple) makes them a great addition to stir fries, stuffed […]
December Newsletter: LOVE Local this Holiday Season
Dear Fair Food Community, Can you believe the festive season is nearly upon us? The golden yellow flowers of the Acacia binervia (coast myall wattle) indicate the beginning of the often warm and wet Parra’dowee season (see Dharawal calendar story). This festive season, we encourage everyone to Shop Local and to support our local producers and independent retailers so that, […]
October Newsletter: Ensuring Food Security For All during lockdown
Dear Fair Food Community, As the days are getting longer and the weather becoming warmer, as gentle rains fall and flowers bloom, we enter the Dharawal season of Murrai’yunggory. With vaccination rates soaring, this season continues to be a hopeful time. This newsletter focuses on our Ensuring food security for all, an especially important topic […]
August Newsletter: Eating Well
Dear Fair Food Community, As the colder, windier weather starts to end and the gentle spring rain begins, we enter the Dharawal season of Tugarh Gunya’marri. A season that needs to be of kindness and self-care, now we are all back in lock down. This newsletter focuses on our “eating well” field guide, an ever more important and […]
December Newsletter: Shopping Local
Can you believe the festive season is nearly upon us? The disruptions of 2020 have brought many questions about our food system to the fore: food security, scarcity, affordability, donations, distribution, community connection, growing your own, sourdough and fermentation are now hot topics! Localism has seen a welcome resurgence, offering solutions to many of these […]
Stanwell Park Eco Centre (SPEC), Community Garden Project
Stanwell Park Eco Centre (SPEC) was founded in June 2020 by Allison Tomazin in response to her witnessing the increasing fragility of our food supply chains. With community job insecurity and the pressures of social isolation thrown into the mix, Allison felt the need to start something that would inspire her local community to engage […]
Stefan Posthuma: Fair Food Champion
Food is what we consume most. It’s an ever-present aspect of life which is not only necessary for survival, but also an integral part of our culture, our identity, our relationships and the way we understand our environment. Food therefore should be respected and revered. Stefan Posthuma Stefan Posthuma lives and breathes food. His many […]