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Ten days
Here's our five minute doco of the Food Forest install, accompanied by our home-brewed rock operetta. Enjoy!
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Sprung
If you were anywhere near the top end of Albion Street, Surry Hills yesterday and you heard a high-pitched squeal, it was us! It was our first visit to the Food Forest since the Plant-In five weeks...
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Bloomin' inspiring
Vote 1 Peter Cundall!We got to spend much of the day yesterday with one of the most generous and knowledgeable sustainability gurus. We learned so much about plants and soil, garden pests and wildlife,...
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Relocalised food makes news
Among sex scandals and sociopathic world leaders, Artist as Family's Meg holds ground as Food Forest makes page 3 of yesterday's SMH.Click for bigger.Read article here.
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The Forest Floor
Patrick is in Sydney and visited the Food Forest with family friend Josh Bowes, who generously helped with the initial planting back in July. They found fungi, edible weeds, an abundance of leaf...
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Food Forest: A Very Public Resource
Perhaps we're clutching at One-Straw Revolutions, but an interesting thing happened recently that we thought was worth sharing. Sydney Morning Herald writer Rachel Olding emailed us to ask whether they...
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The show closes, the forest grows on
In the balance: Art for a changing world ends today. It has been a pleasure and a privilege to have been participants in this show. Thank you to the MCA staff, especially Anna Davis, and thank you to...
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Creative commons, foraging commons
If you like our Food Forest rock operetta you can download it for free at myspace, or at triple j unearthed.We made this music to accompany our Food Forest film, which documents our week of planting.
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Carless and carefree in the country
We've been bike loony over the past several weeks, trading in our car for new cargo bikes and bringing them home on the train, initiating Daylesford Critical Mass' participation in the town's NYE...
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Garden Bed Intruder
Last year, this news item broke which provoked this musical interpretation of it, which in turn provoked us to make this:
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Any available land
We recently co-conspired with other community members to create another public food garden. Here's a short video we made to document this unauthorised direct action.We've set up a Facebook page for the...
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This is Liam
Liam goes to the local secondary college and this week is doing work experience with Artist as Family. Liam lives around the corner and every day this week has arrived on his bike at 9am with a bag of...
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Work Experience
Liam wanted to see what a typical week for Artist as Family entails, and what constitutes 'work', according to us. Here's a short vid that snapshots our social warming adventures.
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Tip Trip
It's been nine months since we sold our car and we have loved every minute of it. Yes—even walking in the pouring rain in winter. We agree with British adventurer Ranulph Fiennes who said "There is no...
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Water Bubbler Audit
Four years ago, Patrick spent a day walking through Melbourne auditing the drinking water fountains in the CBD. His walk revealed that there was one working bubbler per 40,000 people in the city. He...
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Key Audit Findings
We found our first bubbler of the day near the corner of Lonsdale and Spencer streets at 8.35am.We found that to make sure we didn't miss any of the bubblers in the chaos of the city we had to slow...
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Creative Commons: Water Commons
Patrick has drawn a new map to show our findings. If Melbourne is serious about being zero-carbon then bottled water (and anything disposable) has to rapidly become an outmoded commodity. Please feel...
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Food Forest Bee
Hello Sydneysiders! We hope to see you soon.We are heading your way for a two-day working bee at the Food Forest on Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 December.The bee will involve some general maintenance,...
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