July Newsletter: We all have a Role to Play
Dear Fair Food Community, Welcome to our July newsletter! We have a lot to catch you up on, and many exciting things coming up. We would like to start by acknowledging the Dharawal Season we are about to enter, the Tugarah Gunya’marri – The Time of the Wiritjiribin. In a world of growing uncertainty and the rising […]
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 […]
November Newsletter: Growing your own Food
One of the positive outcomes of 2020 is the resurgence of interest in old skills – particularly growing and preparing food from scratch. This issue of the FFI newsletter is jam packed with resources to help you take the next steps to producing your own food, whether you want to grow herbs in a pot […]