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Agrochemical farming - a system in crisis

Orchids for a Man’s World

Families Dig for Dinner as Oil Crisis Hits

Warmer, drier world sends plants uphill

Year of the Mouse

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Sustainable Food Lab feed from http://www.sustainablefoodlab.org/

You can almost hear the music

finding local food

concerns about this year’s crops

tough talk in Rome

Value chains, a growing area of interest

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Latest Activity

Jon Lamb joined Brisbane Local Food. Leave a Comment for Jon Lamb. 1 day ago

Anthony Foo replied to the discussion Small Farms, Big Future 17 Aug

Anthony Foo replied to the discussion Pests and problems 17 Aug

Scarlett Patrick started 2 new forum discussions. View Scarlett Patrick's discussions 11 Aug

Events

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Kitchen Gardeners International - another Ning site

Started by Scarlett Patrick in WEBSITES to visit 11 Aug.

Inner City Farms 1 Reply

Started by Scarlett Patrick in ARTICLES. Last reply by Heather 4 Aug.

Northey St Courses 2008. Phone 3857 8775 or 0439 728 992

Started by Scarlett Patrick in TRAINING and DEVELOPMENT 26 Jul.

Free Dirt - West Bne

Started by Donna in PRODUCTS & SERVICES 27 Jul.

Chook palaces - where did you get yours? 3 Replies

Started by Scarlett Patrick in PRODUCTS & SERVICES. Last reply by Scarlett Patrick 4 Aug.

In the capital of the car, nature stakes a claim

Started by Emma Rose in ARTICLES 2 Jul.

Semester 2, 2008 Permaculture courses with Robyn Francis (Northern NSW)

Started by Scarlett Patrick in TRAINING and DEVELOPMENT 15 Jul.

Preserving fruit and vegetables using Fowlers Vacola 2 Replies

Started by Heather in RECIPES. Last reply by Heather 4 Aug.

Planetary impacts when planting, cultivating or harvesting 1 Reply

Started by Peter Kearney in EXPLORING the FIELD together - Q&A. Last reply by Anthony Foo 12 Jul.

Anyone mechanical and/or food growing interested in a job

Started by Gabrielle Austerberry in TRAINING and DEVELOPMENT 26 Jun.

Food Connect - Community Supported Agriculture 2 Replies

Started by Amy Trotman in WEBSITES to visit. Last reply by Anthony Foo 24 Jun.

Homegrowers - website for produce swap 2 Replies

Started by Heather in WEBSITES to visit. Last reply by Heather 23 Jun.

Chooks for sale 6 Replies

Started by Oliver Bergel in PRODUCTS & SERVICES. Last reply by E Baker 24 Jul.

Blog Posts

Today in our garden

An exciting day today - we harvested the first bunch of lady finger bananas. Two more bunches coming. The blue faced honey eater came and shouted at me and fluffed all his hair up in disgust when I was cutting one of the flower bells off. Funny critter - sorry little buddy! I left one for him - felt too mean. Found two ripe passionfruits and a small ripe pawpaw. The Blue Java and Dwarf Ducasse bananas haven't flowered yet - they are in harsher spots. Down the side with washing machine grey-wate… Continue

Posted by Scarlett Patrick on 26th July 2008 at 11:00pm — 5 Comments (Add)

Hot tips learnt the hard way

It's taken me a while to work out how to do some things on this site: Keeping informed * At top right under your name is 'My Settings'. If you go into the 'Email' section you can tick which activity you want to be emailed about. So then you'll get an email with a link when something happens - eg someone replies to your discussion post. Also on 'My Page' there is a link to all your discussions etc.. Up in lights There is usually a "Feature on Main" button wherever you post something… Continue

Posted by Scarlett Patrick on 23rd July 2008 at 9:30pm — No Comments (Add)

Why have a Brisbane Local Food network....

Jumping off point * find out who is doing what around the place * make pathways to getting to know people and getting involved Social networking is the new black (no, that's compost) Apparently 60% of web traffic is now on social networking sites (there must be a reason...) Why social networking sites are easier than email * you can connect in a very informal day-to-day sort of way * you can email people without needing their contact details * you can post photos etc in one… Continue

Posted by Scarlett Patrick on 23rd July 2008 at 8:06pm — No Comments (Add)

Hoticulture and agriculture, history, ideas and info

Ok this blog will hopefully deliver info and tips on the wide range of possibilities and resources for gardening, agricultural endeavours and growing together. I’m going to start with a bit of historical background and will try not to get to bogged down in detail, please forgive any grammatical or spelling errors as I have a history based in dealing with dyslexia, but I also have an almost photographic memory for things I am passionate about. Agriculture well over 100 years ago was the domain o… Continue

Posted by Anthony Foo on 21st May 2008 at 1:00am — 1 Comment (Add)

We are now live to air

Hi all Well take up is pretty good and the feedback is positive - so I reckon we release this thing into the ether and see what happens. Why wait? So I've changed the network's privacy settings to public - anyone can now see the content on this website, and anyone can now join. Invite away - there is a link you can send to people to make it easy. I've made more people administrators - let's go for the wikipedia self managing model I reckon. Am available for any problems. Enjoy! Scarlett

Posted by Scarlett Patrick on 13th May 2008 at 11:30am — 2 Comments (Add)

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Scarlett Patrick created this social network on Ning.

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This site was created to build capacity in the Brisbane community for growing, buying, producing, selling and sharing local food, products, services and information, because these things are important. It just seems like a good and useful thing to do :)

Please use this site to promote, discuss, share and learn about local food growing, production, gardens, services and activities.
Please respect the activities and opinions of others and keep postings relevant to local food.

This site is not being used in any way to generate money or information by the network creator. Personal details will not be passed on or sold - ever.

What is local? Why local?

What is local?
The closer the better - but regional and global activities are important too.
Why local?
To reduce food miles, increase food freshness & security, improve social outcomes and reduce the unused outputs of our living environments - like stormwater and green waste.