What’s fairness got to do with food?

By |2016-10-18T15:29:18+11:0018 October, 2016|eating seasonally, general news|

Lots. Let’s start with farmers not being paid well by major retail chains for the food they grow and raise for us. Then there’s excessive food imports that unfairly disadvantage not only Australian farmers and farm workers but our food processors as well. And about much of that imported food… do we really know how […]

Local food showcased in Fair Food Week dinner

By |2016-10-14T13:17:51+11:0029 September, 2016|eating seasonally, general news|

Celebrate Fair Food Week on Saturday 15th October with a dinner menu full of seasonal, local and chemical free produce sourced from producers across the Capital Region.

Southern Harvest Association has been working hard to grow fresh food producers across the ACT and Southern NSW through education, community building, and our local farmers market in Bungendore.  What better […]

FOOD STORIES: a new week long workshop is launched

By |2016-10-14T13:17:54+11:0016 August, 2016|eating seasonally, general news|

Over an action packed week, FOOD STORIES examines that web of interactions within the food system of the hugely successful SAGE Farmers Market in Moruya.

Commencing at the Tuesday market, you will witness the extraordinary vitality of this enterprise. In a deliberate way we are starting at the end, at the market itself. From […]

Food Box Initiative Pilot – get involved

By |2016-10-14T13:17:55+11:0021 July, 2016|eating seasonally, farmers market, general news|

A new Food Box Initiative is being started thanks to Canberra City Farm. It will be run from their site at Dairy Flat, near Fyshwick. They are currently looking for producers who would be interested in participating in the initiative – no washing or packaging of produce is required – the members will do […]

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