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Thinking About Waste
One of the topic areas I’m researching and writing about at the moment is waste: what it is, what it means, what affect it has on us and the world around us, and what it says about how we relate to the...
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Sustainable Table and Meat Free Week
There’s been a bit of radio silence from me here lately. I’ve started a new job, writing for this website, and it’s taking up a lot of my time (four full days, to be precise). I’m also teaching some...
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Hearing other people’s stories
I am sitting at a tram stop on a sunny Sunday morning, reading a book, when he approaches me. Excuse me, he says, which tram do I take to get to Bridge Road? From here, I tell him, you can catch the...
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Cycles
The compost bucket is heavy in my arms. It is so full that the lid won’t stay on properly and through the gaps wafts a smell that means I can’t possibly ignore the fact that what I eat is something...
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Making, cooking, food and wasting
When my brother and I were little, we used to sit in the dirt under the crab apple tree that grew beside the back door of our home and pile handfuls of dirt and handfuls of fallen crab apples into...
View ArticleA post script on supporting farmers
Given that I’m reading Wendell Berry’s arguments for appropriately supporting the people who grow our food, I was sad to read this today over at the Youth Food Movement blog: The Australian Farm...
View ArticleSeeds of Freedom {video}
Again on agriculture (which, you might have gathered, is where much of my research is based at the moment). This is an excellent 30 minute documentary on the importance of the diversity and independent...
View ArticleWendell Berry on industrialisation
“Like the rest of us, farmers have believed that they might safely live a life prescribed by the advertisers of products, rather than the life required by fundamental human necessities and...
View ArticleFood reading: food & feeling rushed
“Feeling rushed is… an important component of our economy; it causes people to buy more, pay, try more things and more means to compensate for the stress, or at least to alleviate the anxiety. It also...
View ArticleFood reading: The People’s Food Plan
I’ve spent many hours over the last year reading food plans from different countries, trying to get a sense of how we feed ourselves, and the problems with how we do that. Earlier in the year, the...
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