October 2020
Connecting Over Fair Food
Online community building event & film screening Let's celebrate Food Fairness Illawarra’s 15th birthday, World Food Day and Global Climate Change Week! Join us for an inspiring, encouraging and nourishing evening among other fair food champions. Together we will explore how we can make our food systems more sustainable, stronger and resilient to shocks, supporting biodiversity and combating climate change. The evening will feature a panel discussion between Kylie Flament from Green Connect, Aunty Trish Levett and Serenity Hill from Open Food Network,…
Find out more »Online Forum and Catch Up
Healthy Cities Illawarra, supporting the Alliance for Healthy Cities Australian Chapter, presents “Supporting a Healthy City; Sustainably, Socially and Safely”. Join the forum via Zoom to hear speakers from across the country discuss ways in which we can support a healthy city.
Find out more »November 2020
Bush Foods For The Backyard
In celebration of NAIDOC Week (8th - 15th November), the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria’s Aboriginal Learning Facilitators will host a virtual tour through the Cranbourne Botanic Gardens. Explore and learn about common bushfood plants that you can grow in your own backyard!
Find out more »Permaculture Demonstrator Skill Set (AHCSS000048) (14 sessions)
Permaculture Demonstrator Skill Set (AHCSS000048) is a 4 unit skill set. It is designed to equip learners with the basic knowledge and practice of permaculture principles, how to select and maintain permaculture plant and animal systems, and ultimately how to research, communicate and demonstrate permaculture practices to learners. It is perfect for teachers in schools, community educators, people with passion for permaculture or who want to build their confidence and practice in sharing knowledge with others.
Find out more »Medicinal Gardening Online Workshop
'Medicinal Gardening' is a course like no other based on a physical connection with the plants. This two hour online workshop will show you what healing plants actually looks like, in order to develop an intuitive approach to health and wellbeing combined with the theoretic and scientific. Become more self-reliant and resilient by taking back our ancient wisdom and bringing healing into your own hands.
Find out more »Mabu Mabu, Discover Indigenous Ingredients
This year, NAIDOC Week will be held between the 8th and 15th November. In celebration of this week, Meriam chef, Nornie Bero of Mabu Mabu is sharing her love of Australian Indigenous foods and flavours in a live-streamed workshop.
Find out more »Mabu Mabu, Damper Demonstration
This year, NAIDOC Week will be held between the 8th and 15th November. In this online experience, Meriam chef, Nornie Bero of Mabu Mabu will make a variety of dampers in Torres Strait Islander style and talk about how she learnt to make damper growing up on the Islands. She'll also share tips on how to get the perfect damper softness, and where to source ingredients.
Find out more »The Thrifty Gardener
There is no waste in nature. The earth's resources are limited and so much energy has already been invested making all the things that are at the end of their first life, but it doesn’t need to end there. Be inspired to reuse materials in your garden to help the environment and make your garden unique, beautiful, functional and productive on a budget. This the 8th in a series of 10 Sustainable Gardening webinars presented by Sustainable Gardening Australia. This…
Find out more »Introduction to Self-Watering Garden Beds
This online lunchtime workshop will show you know to build and manage self-watering garden beds, also known as wicking beds, to save you time, water and effort and obtain thriving plants. Garden beds of all sizes can be built, or retrofitted, as self-watering gardens, and will use 60 to 80% less water used than conventional garden beds. This digital workshop, presented by the team from Kimbriki Resource Recovery Centre will show you how. This workshop will be run digitally via…
Find out more »December 2020
Vermont Farm to Plate: Planning for Sustainable and Secure Food and Farming Systems
COVID-19 has highlighted the vulnerabilities of global and national food systems. Even as Australia was repeatedly reassured of the security of its food supply, in 2020 we’ve seen panic buying that emptied supermarket shelves, rising rates of unemployment and food insecurity, and a disproportionately affected migrant seasonal workforce. With the critical challenges of climate change at our doorstep, and rapidly rising costs of dietary-related ill-health, the integrity of our food and farming systems demands our attention. This December, we will,…
Find out more »Planning for Sustainable Farming and Healthy Food Access
Increasing protection for farmland is a crucial step in bringing about food system resilience and fair food access. This is a particularly pressing issue for the areas surrounding Australia's fast developing cities, but assuring the long-term security of farming areas is a pertinent lesson for the country as a whole. In this webinar, Farm to Plate Program Director Jake Claro and Network Manager Sarah Danly will discuss how their work in Vermont attends to the intersection of food access with land use planning and farmland protection. They will be joined by practitioners and policy…
Find out more »How the Public Purse Can Drive Food Systems Change: The Role of Institutional Procurement
The ways in which large institutions, such as schools and hospitals, purchase food have a sizeable impact on the larger food ecosystem. Leveraging institutional food procurement can be a powerful means of supporting local producers and ensuring consumers access to nutritious food--potentially creating a food system that is more equitable, sustainable, and resilient. In this webinar, Farm to Plate Program Director Jake Claro and Network Manager Sarah Danly will discuss their experiences with institutional procurement, highlighting both its benefits and its many logistical complications. They will be joined by practitioners…
Find out more »February 2021
Food Fairness Illawarra, Community Catch Up
Food Fairness Illawarra (FFI) is a regional community coalition committed to make healthy and sustainable food available and affordable for all people in the Illawarra. This meeting is open to all and provides the opportunity to: – Share information, resources and research ideas to continually strengthen our local fair food potential; – Bring issues of common concern to the attention of the FFI community (and decision makers); – Connect with others in the fair food community. It doesn’t matter how…
Find out more »March 2021
Environmental Education (8 session course) – March 2021
This course has been designed for people interested in creating change for sustainability through education and communication. Run by CERES Community Environment Park, this workshop will take you through experiential approaches to environmental education and effective ways to change behaviours and take action for sustainability over 8-weeks.
Find out more »May 2021
Food Fairness Illawarra – Community Catchup
Join us at our FFI Community meeting to continue our collaborative work towards a fairer food system. This meeting is open to all and provides the opportunity to: Share information, resources, and research ideas to continually strengthen our local fair food potential, Bring issues of common concern to the attention of the FFI community (and decision makers), Connect with others in the Fair Food Community. It doesn’t matter how active you have been in FFI in the past, this…
Find out more »Beginners Composting, Worm Farming and Bokashi Webinar
Discover what composting, worm farming and bokashi are all about with this hands-on information session and demonstration. Composting can be easy when done correctly and gives you a natural fertiliser to use in your garden.
Find out more »Advanced Composting Webinar
This webinar is ideal for those who are passionate composters and who want to take their composting to the next level. When we send food and garden waste to landfill not only are we wasting all the resources it took to grow and make the food we are also contributing to global warming. Join our expert Ellen Regos from Cultivating Communities for our advanced composting session.
Find out more »July 2021
Growing Native Food Plants
Learn how to grow and use native food plants with Karen Sutherland from Edible Eden Design. Native plants have been used as a source of food for thousands of years. Yet until recently native edibles have been largely overlooked and under-utilised in our backyards. This class will explore a range of native edible and useful plants that are suitable for a variety of gardens: from urban backyards to schools to public spaces. Karen will share a range of real-life native…
Find out more »August 2021
The Future of Food Webinar
Food is essential for life, but the global systems we rely on to feed us have become increasingly complex and industrialised. Sometimes it’s hard to know where our food comes from, what’s in it and how healthy or ethically produced it is. Join food and health expert Johannes le Coutre in conversation with journalist Joanna Savill as they explore the future of food. As we take our first tentative steps into the paradigm shifting world of lab-grown and no-kill meat,…
Find out more »Leveraging Responsible Investment for Sustainable Healthy Food Systems
Join Deakin University Institute for Health Transformation for a webinar about institutional investment practices that can support sustainable healthy food systems in Australia. This 1-hour webinar will present the results of a recent research study designed to explore the extent to which responsible investment practices in Australia currently support sustainable and healthy food systems. While FFI takes every reasonable effort to ensure that information is correct at the time of publication, we recommend that the individual takes care to confirm details,…
Find out more »October 2021
Food for Thought: Food Security
Australia is one of the most food secure nations in the world, with access to a wide variety of healthy and nutritious foods. But this does not guarantee equal distributions of foods to individuals who need them. With the impacts of a changing climate and population needs, and the potential for disasters and pandemics to disrupt supply chains, food security is an important topic for Australians to consider now, to prevent bigger problems in the future. Join Dr Daniel Walker, Chief Scientist and…
Find out more »Fair Food and the UN Sustainable Development Goals
The SDGs are promoted as a pathway to achieving Zero Hunger - but do they apply to fair food initiatives in Australia, and if so, how? Amidst strong debate around the ongoing exclusion of civil society from food system governance processes such as the UN Food Summit and the SDGs, it is more important than ever that grassroots 'fair food' voices are heard. Discussions will include talks and interactive activities by: 1. Civil society, food justice and the SDGs -…
Find out more »Use It All Webinar
With Alex Elliott-Howery and Jaimee Edwards This 1 hour webinar will cover buying seasonally and cheaply, food storage tips and Alex will demonstrate her favourite waste hacks to save fruits and vegetables from the compost bin. There will be discussion of the issues as well as hopeful solutions. Plus, an emailed recipe sheet and question time!
Find out more »The rise of ultra-processed food
Global food production is the single largest driver of environmental degradation and climate instability. In this Melbourne Conversations event, we will ask our experts to help us rethink unsustainable, modern agricultural systems. What does a food system look like that serves both people and planet? How do we achieve this, and in particular how do we address the dominance of ultra-processed foods produced by Big Food corporations that come at a growing cost to both human health, and our planet’s…
Find out more »Transforming Food Systems: Effective policies to build a sustainable future
To mark this year’s World Food Day, The George Institute for Global Health invites you to a #GeorgeTalks webinar on ‘Transforming Food Systems: Effective policies to build a sustainable future. #WorldFoodDay 2021 will be marked as countries around the world deal with the widespread impacts of the global Covid-19 pandemic, accelerating climate crisis and worsening inequalities. It's time to look into the future we need to build together. Join to hear from three leading experts at the forefront of food…
Find out more »Are human rights principles and mechanisms useful for addressing hunger in Australia?
There’s never been a more important time to ensure the human right to food for all. Join the Right to Food Coalition for an online webinar on human rights and food insecurity in Australia. Dr Rebecca Lindberg will present some of her recent research (1,2) on rights-based approaches to addressing household food insecurity in Australia, conducted in collaboration with Dr Stephanie Godrich and Liza Barbour and supported by the Coalition.
Find out more »Local government and food systems – why it’s a critical solution
Climate change, waste, land use, jobs –Did you know that food could be the answer to these big issues for local government? Join the hour webinar that looks at: A brief dive into the food system and why an informed community and local government is critical A taste of our Food Matters program and our impact in building community food leaders How local government can be involved. All registrants will be eligible to enter into a prize draw for a voucher from a local food producer.
Find out more »Costa Georgiadis presents Costa’s World
Gardening for the soul, the soil and the suburbs – from the beloved host of ABC TV’s Gardening Australia. A generous, joyous, fully illustrated gardening book, Costa’s World celebrates the life-changing joy of chooks; kids in the garden; big ideas for small spaces; Costa’s favourite plants; growing the right plants for your conditions; biodiversity in the soil and garden; the power of community; the brilliance of bees and pollinators; easy-peasy permaculture; and much, much more. Numbers are limited for this…
Find out more »November 2021
Living Sustainably: A How-To Guide
Join Kylie Flament for a free sustainable living Q&A. Kylie is the General Manager of Green Connect, an award-winning, not-for-profit social enterprise that is all about reducing waste and growing fair food. She is also a Director at Flame Tree Community Food Co-op and the founder of Sustainable Illawarra. Kyile has become the 'go-to' person for friends, family and local businesses who have questions about growing food, making food, reducing waste, reducing their carbon footprint, or living sustainably. This free…
Find out more »Cardinia Community Food Forum 2021
The Cardinia Community Food Forum will be held online as part of Cardinia Shire Council’s commitment to a healthy, delicious, sustainable and fair food system. The day will include a range of short talks and panel discussions with Young Food Leaders and Young Farmers Agri-Food Social Enterprises Siri Guru Nanak Darbar United African Farm Cockatoo Sustainable Food Project The Community Grocer, and many more, including Monash University, Department of Nutrition, Dietetics & Food While FFI takes every reasonable effort to…
Find out more »Growing Great Veggies the No-Dig Gardening Way
Join Council's Green Team to learn easy ways to grow great veggies without digging! They'll take you through how to create a no-dig garden with layers of items from around your home, like grass clippings, cardboard and weeds. This is a live interactive session, where you'll be able to create your own mini veggie garden in a box. Anyone's welcome to join, but the session is designed for adults from beginners to advanced gardeners. This free event is part of…
Find out more »Nature Talks Online: Soil with Matthew Evans
In this reflective Nature Talk, commentator and farmer Matthew Evans shows us that what we do in our backyards, on our farms, and what we put on our dinner tables really matters, and can be a source of hope. Matthew Evans is a former chef and food critic, now Tasmanian smallholder, restaurateur and food activist. He is the star of the long-running SBS TV show 'The Gourmet Farmer', and the author of thirteen books. His new title, 'Soil', is available…
Find out more »Homegrown with Paul West
Join River Cottage Australia host and Grow It Local cofounder Paul West in this exclusive LIVE launch of his new book release 'Homegrown'. Paul will show us how to become that little bit more self-sufficient and give you the info and tools you need to grow, cook and preserve your way through the year. Homegrown features guides that teach us how to utilise the space in your house for a garden, how to improve your crop and delicious seasonal recipes.…
Find out more »Kiama Council Grants Information Workshops
Kiama Council will be holding two Grants Information Workshops via zoom for our Cultural, Community Gardens and Health & Sustainability Grants. When: Tuesday 16 November Session 1: 2.30pm – 3.30pm Session 2: 6.30pm – 3.30pm To register visit our website Council Grants Information Workshops Kiama Council (nsw.gov.au)
Find out more »Healthy, sustainable, equitable food systems: The role of local government
Join the University of Sydney Law School for an online event that will share findings and resources produced by an Australian Research Council funded study on the role of Australian local governments in creating a healthy, sustainable, and equitable food system. This event will also be a forum for researchers, advocates, and local government representatives to share experiences, and to discuss challenges and opportunities for local government action on food system issues. While FFI takes every reasonable effort to ensure…
Find out more »Live your best-ever pickle life – session 1
Milkwood is hosting two free online workshop to help you use whatever veggies you've got and turn them into delicious, nutritious, lacto-fermented pickles! In this online Mini Workshop, we’ll cover: How lacto-fermentation works The basic ingredients, and all the equipment you'll need (not much) The importance (and magical wonder) of salt our basic brine ratios for gherkins, mixed veg and other things how to make your own sauerkraut - from cabbages, and more how to make best-ever dill pickled gherkins…
Find out more »Live your best-ever pickle life – session 2
Milkwood is hosting two free online workshop to help you use whatever veggies you've got and turn them into delicious, nutritious, lacto-fermented pickles! In this online Mini Workshop, we’ll cover: How lacto-fermentation works The basic ingredients, and all the equipment you'll need (not much) The importance (and magical wonder) of salt our basic brine ratios for gherkins, mixed veg and other things how to make your own sauerkraut - from cabbages, and more how to make best-ever dill pickled gherkins…
Find out more »Pulses: A Sustainable Food Option
What are pulses? Pulses are one of our 'superfoods' with many nutritional and environmental benefits. This free cooking demonstration will take you through the many benefits of pulses and showcase easy, delicious meals using these magic beans. “While FFI takes every reasonable effort to ensure that information is correct at the time of publication, we recommend that the individual confirm details with the event organiser, as events can be subject to last minute changes.”
Find out more »December 2021
VIRTUAL: Recipes Featuring Lentils, a Powerhouse Food
Join the Verdant Health Commission in the free online event 'Recipies featuring lentils'. Taelin Flores is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist who will discuss why we need lentils in a healthy diet and delicious ways to eat them. “While FFI takes every reasonable effort to ensure that information is correct at the time of publication, we recommend that the individual confirm details with the event organiser, as events can be subject to last minute changes.”
Find out more »Building Communities of Care for Food Systems Change
Join Kate Johnston and Alana Mann in exploring the potential of care to address our broken food systems and designing future food systems. Kate is a researcher in food systems change crosses academia, industry and the non-profit sector. She is the postdoctoral research fellow for the FoodLab Sydney and is the co-founder and editor of Counter magazine. The FoodLab Sydney is on a mission to empower food entrepreneurs with the skills, tools, networks and resources needed to become a food…
Find out more »Building Communities of Care for Food Systems Change
Join UNSW in the free online event to transform our food system! Informed and inspired by the local Sydney food community and FoodLab Sydney – a program and collaborative research project which aims to address food insecurity by fostering ‘good food networks’, and empowering individual and community participation in the food ecosystem – as well as previous research and thinking about food and care. “While FFI takes every reasonable effort to ensure that information is correct at the time of…
Find out more »February 2022
DIY Mushroom Garden Basics FREE Webinar – Milkwood
Learning how to grow delicious gourmet mushrooms in your garden is a GREAT way to increase your household's resilience, enhance your garden's soil, AND make your tummy very happy, all at once. And it's safe, easy and even potentially free, once you have the basic bits you need. The best bit about mushroom gardens? You don't need any fancy equipment or ingredients at all - you can get started with a few foraged mushrooms (ID-ed correctly, of course) and some…
Find out more »Indigenous Cooking – Axe Creek Landcare
Join indigenous healer and teacher Peta Hudson in an afternoon of scone-baking with Axe Creek Landcare Group. Cook along with Peta as she shares conversations and knowledge for growing and cooking indigenous plants. This session will be an intimate zoom workshop where participants will be encouraged to set up an iPad and cook-along as Peta demonstrates her cooking method and discusses the role plants play in restoring Country to its former glory. Prior to the workshop, participants will receive specialty…
Find out more »FIRST WE EAT – Putting food sovereignty to the test
Putting food sovereignty to the test in the far North of Canada – award-winning filmmaker Suzanne Crocker (All The Time In The World), removes absolutely all grocery store food from her house. For one year, she feeds her family of five, only food that can be hunted, fished, gathered, grown or raised around Dawson City, Yukon on the traditional territory of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in – just 300 km from the Arctic Circle. Add three skeptical teenagers, one reluctant husband, no…
Find out more »Saving Our Food Online Event – UNSW
How wasted food has become a lead weight in the global fight against climate change. About this event We all love food, but the ways we grow, make, sell and consume it causes a scandalous amount of waste. The land footprint used to grow this wasted food every year occupies an area the size of Canada and India combined. Food waste also uses vast quantities of water and is linked to 8-11% of global greenhouse gas emissions. In response, the…
Find out more »Solidarity Session #19 -An eater’s guide to Community Supported Agriculture
The Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance's Solidarity Sessions are back for 2022 - as we continue to connect online and build solidarity across the corners of this vast country. The constant stream of climate change induced natural disasters, and the ongoing impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the industrialised food supply chains, has demonstrated the urgent need for localised food economies, short supply chains, and paying a fair price for food. Luckily for us, one of the food sovereignty solutions is…
Find out more »March 2022
Permaculture Living Online Course – Milkwood
Ready to kickstart your permaculture life? Get the skills you need to start living like it matters - and it's fully supported by the Milkwood crew! "Milkwood's" Permaculture Living course is a 12-week experience that will take you from ‘hmm, that sounds like a good idea’ to a version of yourself who is FULL of new projects, habits and knowledge – and motivated to start making life better. Better for you, for your ecosystem, and for our planet, too. Join…
Find out more »May 2022
Home Mushroom Cultivation online course
Organised by Milkwood (https://www.milkwood.net/contact/) You – yes, you! – can grow mountains of delicious and medicinal mushrooms at your place, regardless of where in the world you live or how much space you have. Our online Home Mushroom Cultivation course will get you growing. This self-paced course will show you how to grow mushrooms in buckets, gardens and on logs, using sustainable, low-waste, low-cost methods. Which means you'll be able to fill your belly, feed your family and share mushies…
Find out more »FOOD FAIRNESS ILLAWARRA, COMMUNITY CATCH UP
Join us for our next Community meeting to continue our collaborative work towards a fairer food system! This meeting is open to all and provides the opportunity to: Share information, resources and research ideas to continually strengthen our local fair food potential; Bring issues of common concern to the attention of the FFI community (and decision makers); Connect with others in the fair food community. It doesn’t matter how active you have been in FFI in the past, this is…
Find out more »Sustainability in Action – Learning from Horticulture
Join Gilad Sadan, Managing Director of N.A.V.I. Co (Network, Advice, Value, Innovation) based in Melbourne Australia. N.A.V.I Co. Global specialises in the Fresh Produce sector. Working with Growers and Marketers to create products from concept to fruition. Through his network of connections, Gilad works to source the most suitable packaging, machinery, equipment and service providers to help products land on supermarket shelves. Using emerging 3D digital visualisation tools companies can see what your product will look like on the supermarket…
Find out more »Global Consumer Trends in Food & Drink presented by Mintel
The pandemic, economic fluctuations, and local and global events in 2020-21 have caused consumers to form new behaviours, attitudes and values. Mintel's 2022 Global Consumer Trends recognise these shifts and share predictions on how brands can prepare for changes in consumer behaviour. The 2022 Global Consumer Trends provide a strong foundation for Mintel Food & Drink's predictions for what consumers will want from food, drink and foodservice, and why. “While FFI takes every reasonable effort to ensure that information is…
Find out more »The Battle for a Future: Farming and Extraction
How Australia can ensure its agricultural future through regenerative farming and transitioning away from harmful coal seam gas extraction. About this event The IPCC has made it clear that it is now or never to decarbonise. Yet there remains significant investment and prospecting for coal seam gas projects such as Shell and Arrow Energy’s Surat Gas Project in the Darling Downs of Queensland. This panel discussion, hosted in partnership with the University of Sydney's Institute of Agriculture, explores how extraction of coal seam…
Find out more »Solidarity Session: A people’s food plan for farmers and eaters
Solidarity Session #22 - A People’s Food Plan for farmers and eaters is an open callout for anyone who’d like to be involved in shaping AFSA’s revised People’s Food Plan. Since the launch of AFSA’s first People’s Food Plan in 2013, a lot has changed. Australia’s food sovereignty movement has rapidly grown to include a diverse cross section of First Peoples, farmers, eaters and activists who share a vision for socially-just and ecologically-sound food and agricultural systems. What’s more, the…
Find out more »June 2022
Unlocking Sustainable Eating
As a health professional, learn how to empower clients to eat more sustainably. Join Dietitian Connection for their online webinar! The webinar will feature three experts with three different perspectives: research, consumer insights and local food systems. Dr Gilly Hendrie, a nutrition research scientist will speak on current Australian dietary patterns and after Samantha Siva will present new consumer insights on what motivates people to eat sustainability. Lastly, Professor Karen Charlton from UOW will highlight opportunities for Dietitians to support…
Find out more »July 2022
The Path to Longevity – University of Sydney Webinar
Join this webinar, co-hosted by the University of Sydney Office of Global Engagement and Centre in China for discussion on how to live a long, healthy and meaningful life. There will be conversation about what diet we should be following, how important sleep is and how exercise can improve sleep quality and cognitive skills. Professor Luigi Fontana will share his 20 years of research, clinical practice and accumulated knowledge on how nutrition, regular exercise and brain training, mindfulness and other…
Find out more »August 2022
Values-based food procurement models: benefits & challenges
Leah Galvin is a public health nutritionist with a background in research/evaluation, stakeholder engagement, food systems, social policy and regional and community development. Leah has recently returned from a Churchill Fellowship where she visited the USA, Canada, England, Denmark, Sweden and Finland. The focus of her trip was to explore models and approaches to increase local food procurement by institutions including hospitals, aged care, schools, prisons and meals programs such as Meals on Wheels. Join to hear Leah's insights and…
Find out more »Grow to Eat the Rainbow – Masterclass
This session will equip you with some general principles to apply to your garden planning, planting, and harvesting as well as menu planning to optimise your health and wellbeing on an individual level in your home garden, local community garden or even just when shopping at a Farmer’s market or Greengrocer. Presenter: Catherine Fallon Catherine is a Dietitian/Nutritionist and Market Gardener at Somerset Heritage Produce, a farm that uses regenerative agriculture principles to grow vegetables on the banks of the…
Find out more »September 2022
Measuring the Environmental Impact of food
Join Ellyn Bicknell and Sara Forbes to hear their reflections on the environmental impacts of food consumption in Australia and New Zealand. Ellyn and Sara contributed to a rapid review on the environmental impacts associated with food consumption in Australia and New Zealand. They will take you through ways of measuring environmental impact beyond greenhouse gas emissions. This will be followed by a discussion of their recent rapid review findings and how it has influenced their evaluation of popular press…
Find out more »Morag’s Permaculture Film Club with Happen Films
Event Description Join for September Permaculture Film Club with Antoinette Wilson and Jordan Osmond - the brilliant, creative duo behind Happen Films to chat about their latest documentary Together We Grow (40 mins) which will be live streamed at Film Club. But first, a screening of one of their short films, Hua Parakore: Living Indigenous Food Sovereignty (8:39 mins). About Hua Parakore-Living Indigenous Food Sovereignty: Provides a framework using Indigenous values – Māori principles – for producing natural food without chemical inputs…
Find out more »Permaculture Education Institute: Restoring the Earth
Hosted by: Morag Gamble Guests: Rosemary Morrow & Rob Allsop Why is being an earth restorer so important at this time? How can we all take up this call to action wherever we are and share ideas and practical strategies? How can permaculture educators and practitioners myceliate this activism and be in service to ecosystems and communities in parts of the world being affected the most by climate change? Join permaculture elder and evolutionary educator, Rosemary Morrow and permaculture illustrator Rob Allsop.…
Find out more »Solidarity Session #24 – FOOPL perspectives: Young farmers and landowners
Hosted by AFSA National Committee member and FOOPL Farmer (Borrowed Ground), Eliza Cannon, this session will be an open discussion on success stories, challenges and opportunities for FOOPL arrangements to provide experiential insights for young people, First Peoples as well as emerging and existing farmers to inform decision making when and if they have access to land. Points of discussion: - What is FOOPL? (A brief overview of land and farm sharing agreements and AFSA’s FOOPL program) - How can…
Find out more »October 2022
Nutrition: An increasingly material topic for responsible investors in Australasia
This event is hosted by the Access to Nutrition Initiative in coordination with local Australian stakeholders including First Sentier Investors, Deakin University and the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA). Since the global outbreak of COVID-19, there has been an increasing recognition of the importance of addressing health and nutrition issues, as individual consumers, employers, and as investors in food and beverage companies. This online webinar will focus on trends in the local Australian market and identify the similarities with global…
Find out more »4-Week Online Cooking Masterclass with Cornersmith: Low Waste, Low Cost cooking
Make your kitchen the most important room in the house where combating food waste and resilience to the rising costs of food has delicious solutions. Low Waste, Low Cost Cooking masterclass series brings the experience and skills behind The Food Saver's A-Z right into your kitchen. Learn how using whole ingredients and what you already have on hand will save you money and help you do your bit towards environmental action. This masterclass series is the answer to running your kitchen sustainably…
Find out more »Masterclass 46: Urban Agriculture Panel
November is Urban Agriculture Month and the Permaculture Education Institute are celebrating the beautiful array of urban agriculture and the potential this brings to living a one-planet life, creating resilience and robustness, addressing social justice, growing new livelihood opportunities, nurturing nutritious urban gardens for community wellbeing, transitioning our cities, and sharing stories of what is possible. The first of the urban agriculture series is this panel conversation with three Churchill Fellows focussing on Urban Agriculture in different ways - Dr…
Find out more »December 2022
Deakin Food Policy Dialogue 2022: Online
Informative and thought-provoking presentations, a panel discussion, and breakout sessions on policies that support equitable food systems. Join a discussion between researchers, public health practitioners, policy makers, advocates and community organisations about how we can work together to design and implement policies that support equitable food systems. With a focus on strengths-based, actionable solutions, our keynote speakers and guests will discuss topics such as: culturally informed trauma integrated healing approaches to food policy and practice for Aboriginal and Torres…
Find out more »Make It Count: Forum on Measuring Household Food Security in Australia
In recognition of Human Rights Day, the Right To Food Coalition are hosting an online forum to examine current inadequate collection of food security data and propose effective tools for use across Australia in future Expert speakers will provide: An outline of current food security data collection and gaps in Australia Highlight the most effective tool to accurately measure food security at Federal, State and Territory levels, as agreed in the Consensus Statement Who should be involved in measuring food…
Find out more »January 2023
MASTERCLASS 48: Systems Thinking, Permaculture & Sustainable Communities
Join Morag Gamble from the Permaculture Education Institute in conversation with one of the world's major public thinkers of the last half-century - renowned author-educator-activist-physicist, Fritjof Capra Ph.D. Fritjof's main focus through his environmental education and activism has been to help build and nurture sustainable communities. He believes that to do so, we can learn valuable lessons from the study of ecosystems, which are sustainable communities of plants, animals, and microorganisms. If we understand how life on earth works, we…
Find out more »February 2023
PERMACULTURE FILM CLUB: Gracie’s Backyard with Richard Perkins, Ridgedale Permaculture Farm, Sweden
Gracie's Backyard is a documentary film about the "northernmost commercial permaculture farm on the planet". Located at 59 degrees North near Sunne, Sweden, Ridgedale Permaculture is a 10-hectare farm, at the time this film was made, integrated pastured eggs, broiler chickens, market gardens, agro-forestry systems (and more!) into an enterprise that creates livelihoods while regenerating landscapes. Discover how Richard Perkins and his partner Yohanna Amselem managed to turn this abandoned farm into a vibrant place that is now part working…
Find out more »Toward Low-Waste Living
The prospect of a zero-waste lifestyle may seem overwhelming but, from little things, big things can grow. Small changes can have a big impact. In this online session sustainability educator, Kirsty Bishop-Fox, will share tips and tricks to help participants be more conscious while consuming in order to lower their eco-footprint and keep stuff out of landfill. This session will includes Q and A with an expert. While FFI takes every reasonable effort to ensure that information is correct at the time of…
Find out more »Wicking Bed Online Workshop
Wicking beds are the most water efficient way of growing food we know of – and they you get more prolific produce per square meter. The right wicking bed system can make gardening easier, letting you know exactly when to water, while the water reservoir means you go away in the middle of summer, knowing that your veggies will be fine. You can put them on concrete, under gum trees, anywhere! But there some pros and cons, as well as…
Find out more »Pre-Election Great Debate
The NSW Branch Public Health Association of Australia has organised a Pre-Election Great Debate. The Forum provides members and the public the opportunity to hear about issues important to public health in our state from NSW Members of Parliament and candidates, including: Minister for Health and Medical Research, Hon Brad Hazzard MP Shadow Minister for Health, Ryan Park MP NSW Greens Health and Wellbeing spokesperson Cate Faehrmann MLC Independent candidate for Lane Cove Victoria Davidson PHAA’s CEO Adjunct Professor Terry Slevin will be moderating the event and that…
Find out more »March 2023
Growing Healthy Eaters
The secrets to feeding kids, picky eating and stressing less about meal times. For many parents, meal times are a battle - but they don't have to be. Picky eating and other challenging meal time behaviours are a normal part of childhood development and there are lots of ways to make this stage easier for you and your child. Come and learn how you can take the stress out of feeding your child and how to help them grow to…
Find out more »April 2023
Growing Healthy Eaters
The secrets to feeding kids, picky eating and stressing less about meal times. For many parents, meal times are a battle – but they don’t have to be. Picky eating and other challenging meal time behaviours are a normal part of childhood development and there are lots of ways to make this stage easier for you and your child. Come and learn how you can take the stress out of feeding your child and how to help them grow to…
Find out more »May 2023
Changeology: Master Class and Project Incubator
A insight-filled online 'rapid project incubator' with Les Robinson. Design innovative real life projects that excite groups or communities to do things they've never done before. Join a wonderful team of motivated collaborators to: Understand the psychology of change, including how to avoid resistance and denial. Rapidly design a fresh change project from scratch (or fix an existing one), using facilitation methods. Use fun, creative, innovation methods to make your project buzzworthy, game-like, social, and rewarding. Create messages people will want…
Find out more »Changeology: Facilitate with Confidence
This enjoyable, hands-on workshop gives you the skills to facilitate and get results in workshops, team meetings, forums and community meetings. ...with special attention in the tricks that make online workshops a pleasure. This is an intensive training course for professionals who have facilitation roles. It's dynamic and interactive, with role plays and plenty of safe practice (after all, facilitation is best learnt by doing it!). The course includes: Plan a perfect session, in any context Win your authority to…
Find out more »Compost Revolution Webinar
Come celebrate International Compost Awareness Week with The Compost Revolution. Our favourite week of the year is approaching and what better way to celebrate than gathering together to talk, learn, share and marvel in all things compost! Bring your friends, family, kids, neighbours... and of course your worms. The Compost Revolution team will be sharing their compost journeys and what they love most about the wonderful world of bacteria, fungi, bugs and slugs. Bring along your stories as well as any burning…
Find out more »Changeology: Passion Mashin’ Workshop
Add zap to volunteer groups. An inspiring workshop on harnessing the power of reimagination to revitalise groups. Perfect for volunteer leaders and coordinators. Reinvigorate your volunteer group Grow your membership Harvest a crop of brilliant ideas Learn proven, simple, low-cost techniques to spread your message Win the hearts and minds of new supporters This enjoyable interactive workshop harnesses the power of reinvention to spark new zest and enthusiasm in volunteer groups. Participants hear about great reinvention and communication ideas and…
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