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Growing Healthy Local Food: Sustainability Potential and Household Participation in Home Gardens

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Connecting Over Fair Food 2023

On the 18th of October, more than 110 dedicated food educators, advocates, producers, gardeners, and passionate food enthusiasts converged for the annual Connecting Over Fair Food event at the Shellharbour Civic Centre. Together, they explored how to build a food system that is more sustainable, fairer and resilient here in the Illawarra, especially in the context of climate change and the rising cost of living.  

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Connecting Over Fair Food 2023

Food Fairness Illawarra warmly invites you to join us for our annual Connecting Over Fair Food event to hear from those who are actively working within our food system and explore ideas around building food resilience in our community!

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Fair Food Champion: Anna Jane Linke

It all started with flower growing a few years ago. I live in an off-grid tiny home and fortunately have the space to experiment with different varieties. Since then my beds are a mix of veggies and flowers. I work at a market garden in Otford where we teach a 10 week seasonal growing course for beginners and I am studying horticulture at Tafe.

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Fair Food Champion: Penny Thompson

I have always been fascinated by nature and plants ever since I was a young child, growing up on acreage on the banks of the Murrumbidgee River in the Wiradjuri country of central NSW. I don’t really remember anyone really teaching me about gardening but I was lucky enough to have the space and freedom to experiment with growing a variety of plants including fruits and vegetables. Later as an adult I travelled a lot and spent many years living overseas, so growing my own food was not an option for me for a long time. However, I finally bought a house of my own near Wollongong about 11 years ago that had a few hundred square metres of bare yard, just waiting to be filled with greenery and a food forest!

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October Newsletter: Ensuring Food Security For All during lockdown

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 at the moment given how the pandemic had exacerbated existing food insecurity. Food security is a basic human right and it supports the fundamental requirements we need to live a healthy life. With Covid cases surging in the Illawarra at the moment, especially through low-income and emergency housing, vulnerable people are at an increased risk of food insecurity. Donating, volunteering, sharing resources and working collaboratively goes a long way.Our newsletter also highlights the fantastic Amy Carrad who is our Fair Food Champion this season, and her research into healthy, equitable food systems. We also unveil our participatory campaign for World Food Week (13-17th Oct) and World Food Day (17th Oct)! Finally, we have listed some exciting virtual activities, entertainment, and recipes that are worth checking out.Stay safe, active & be gentle

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Fair Food Champions: Nicole & Saxon

Tell us a bit about your background; what is your personal motivation for working in food donations, and how did you become involved with OzHarvest?

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Advocate, Educate & Support – Food Security

There are many opportunities for us to help ensure food security for all. Advocacy, education and support can happen at schools, between friends, at work, within organisations and at any level of government. Start a conversation in your local community, talk to your friends, colleagues and peers, share information or write to your local councilors and Members of Parliament. You can:

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Advocate, educate, & support – Growing Your own

There are many opportunities for us to support food growing in the Illawarra. Advocacy, education and support can happen at schools, between friends, at work, within organisations and at any level of government. Start a conversation in your local community, talk to your friends, colleagues and peers, share information or write to your local councillors and Members of Parliament. You can:

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November Newsletter: Urban Agriculture Month

We’ve got a lot in store for the coming months, as well as a lot to catch up on! 

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