Posts Tagged ‘Food’
Petty’s Orchard Antique Apple Tasting Festival
Posted in Events by meggshp on March 4th, 2010
This event is a major fundraiser for the Heritage Fruits Society Inc. We are working to save heritage fruit varieties & have many residing at the Petty’s Orchard site at Templestowe. Come along for a great day of apple tasting & fun with a special performance by Peter Combe, Australian icon, produce stalls, great food, information from CERES, Slow Food Australia & Parks Victoria. The site is 4km from Templestowe train station. We encourage folks to cycle the Yarra Trail to the site or put your bike on the train… Parking is available if you must bring your car. Please remember to bring your picnic rug, hat & sunscreen, water bottles & friends! Folks wishing to join the Permablitz will need to register on their website www.permablitz.net before coming.
Tags: apples, festival, Food, heritage fruit
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2010 Guide to Ethical Supermarket Shopping
Posted in Research by Kate Archdeacon on February 19th, 2010
Source: Ethical Consumer Guide
The 2010 Guide to Ethical Supermarket Shopping is now available. To help you navigate through the issues connected to your everyday purchases, we’ve not only updated company information, but also added a more detailed rating system, new blurbs, and two new categories — Alcohol and Office Supplies. Order here.
Overview:
The Ethical Consumer Guide has come out of a shared concern that many people although eager to make changes in their buying habits for the better, do not have access to information to make informed choices. The website and accompanying guides, provide information on companies and brands, drawing from existing sources. The information allows evaluation of the social and environmental impact of companies on the earth and our society, and gives insight into the ever-increasing concentration of company and brand ownership.
The guide is specific to Australia. We hope that this ethical buying guide can allow people to not only make wiser choices in their purchases and open up a dialogue with companies, but also come to more fully understand the connection between how we act and what is going on in the world around us.
It is our aim to:
* inform shoppers of more ethical or less ethical choices in their buying
* empower people and create awareness about consumer power
* provide a means for consumers to give feedback to companies and government, and so encourage change
In doing this we seek to make all information:
* freely accessible
* transparent and well sourced
* easy to use for the everyday shopper
Tags: behaviour change, consumption, education, Food
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World Food Day Invitation: The work of Sustain
Posted in Events by Kate Archdeacon on October 9th, 2009
Image: Sustain
The Victorian Food Policy Coalition Steering Committee presents “A strategic approach to food – policies & pitfalls. The work of Sustain UK”
Guest Speaker: Jeanette Longfield MBE, Co-ordinator of Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming.
Jeanette Longfield’s degree in International Relations and a Masters in Development Studies led to work as a Policy Analyst at the National Council for Voluntary Organisations, and campaigning at the Coronary Prevention Group. Four years on she became Co-ordinator of the National Food Alliance which merged with the Sustainable Agriculture Food and Environment (SAFE) Alliance to form SUSTAIN. As SUSTAIN’s Co-ordinator, Jeanette contributes to a number of food policy committees, liaises with the Food Standards Agency, and appears regularly in the media representing a public interest view on food policy issues. She was awarded an MBE for services to food policy in 2007.
Friday 16th October 2009
2.30-4.30 pm
Theatre 2 – Basement Room 1.2, University of Melbourne
221 Bouverie Street (corner Bainbridge Place) CARLTON 3053
Please be early to ensure your place (seating for approx 100)
Further information:
Beverley Wood, VLGA fsn@vlga.org.au 03 9349 7999
Mark Lawrence, Deakin Uni lawrence@deakin.edu.au 03 9244 3789
Kirsten Larsen, VEIL klarsen@unimelb.edu.au 03 8344 9189
Tags: education, Food, governance, networks, sharing
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FarmGAS Calculator Launched
Posted in Models by Kate Archdeacon on September 4th, 2009
Source: Cleanfood, the Future Climate newsletter
Image: Hannam Vale
The Australian Farm Institute has launched its FarmGAS Calculator.
The Calculator is an online application which enables farmers to model both the financial and greenhouse gas outputs of farm activities and the implications of changes in enterprises. The FarmGAS Calculator is available free online for anyone to access. The FarmGAS Calculator includes individual calculators for the major livestock and cropping enterprises, and any combination of these enterprises can be added to create an individual farm business. Farmers can come back to the calculator at any time to update or change their production data, or complete the process in stages. The Calculator applies the same methodology that is used by the Department of Climate Change in the estimation of Australia’s National Greenhouse Gas Accounts; and provides reports on the annual amount of methane and nitrous oxide emitted by each enterprise expressed as carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2-e). Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: carbon neutral, enabling technologies, farm, Food
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Phase 2 of Paddock to Plate: re-thinking food and farming
Posted in Research by Kate Archdeacon on September 3rd, 2009
Source: Food Climate Research Network
Paddock to Plate: policy propositions for sustaining food and farming systems is the second and final phase of the Australian Conservation Foundation’s Future Food and Farming project.
The report puts 24 propositions to the Victorian Government, based on the premise that healthy environments, healthy farming systems and healthy people are intricately intertwined. The report looks at the activities and investments that will be needed if Victoria is to equip its food and farming systems to produce more healthy foods, more sustainably, in a much more difficult climate, while consuming less water, energy and soil, fewer nutrients and without damaging our biodiversity.
How can we improve the performance and resilience of the Victorian food and farming system? This propositions paper outlines policy suggestions that would substantially assist the Victorian food system in delivering healthier foods, healthier profits and healthier landscapes.
Download the report.
Tags: Food, governance, resilience
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Food Farming & Health Conference
Posted in Movements by Kate Archdeacon on August 25th, 2009
Source: Rural Climate Network
Image: SMH
‘Nurture the land, nourish the people…’
The Food Farming & Health Conference is a one-day investigation into future farms and food chains. Join experts to examine the way we grow, distribute and share healthy food. Get into grassroots networking and strengthen the links between farmers, food processors, consumers and health professionals. Explore regional development and business systems to get healthy food to the community.
October 6th
Warragul Arts Centre, Warragul, Victoria.
Register by RSVP 31st August
Keynote speakers include Andrew Campbell (author of the 2008 ACF report ‘Paddock to Plate’), Veronica Graham (State Health Nutritionist for Victoria), Kirsten Larsen (Victorian Eco-Innovation Laboratory), and Bruce Kefford (Dep. Sec. R&D, Dept of Primary Industries).
Tags: community, conference, Food, local farmers
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Food & Seed Swap at Slow Food Farmers’ Market
Posted in Movements by Kate Archdeacon on August 19th, 2009
Source: Friends of the Earth Melbourne
Image: Andy Ciordia via Flickr
On Saturday August 22, Sustainable Gardening Australia (SGA) will be holding their first ever fruit and veg/seed swap at the Abbotsford Convent Slow Food Farmer’s Market. If you’ve had a bountiful crop this winter and ended up with more fruit and veg than you know what to do with, they’d love you to come along and take part. Not only is this a great opportunity to show off your skills, but to also chat with with like-minded individuals and to have fun. The aim is to get members like yourself talking and discussing the successes (and failures!) of your efforts in sustainable gardening while sharing your produce as well as your knowledge. It’s also a great opportunity to swap some seeds as Spring approaches.
There will be SGA volunteers heading along to give you the latest happenings on the PODs project – Productive, Organic and Diverse gardening groups. If you have a passion for gardening, want to connect with your community, meet like-minded people and make a genuine difference to the environment, why not get involved? This will be a fantastic opportunity to network and get your own POD up and running!
Date: 22nd Aug 09
Time: 8:00am – 1:00pm
Venue: The Abbotsford Convent, 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford VIC 3067
Tags: community, farmers' markets, Food, sustainable sharing
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Real Food Film Nights
Posted in Movements by Kate Archdeacon on July 31st, 2009
Source: Climate Action Calendar
It’s time to reconnect with our food and the planet over some hot soup and some wonderful new films on food issues. We’ll revisit drawbacks of industrial farming, the food crisis and highlight the bright solutions taking shape around the globe. Discuss the latest updates on new and old food campaigns, plus you’ll be given the opportunity to take some action of your own through letter writing, petitions, postcards and maybe a visit to the supermarket or a bit of local digging! Friends of the Earth Real Food Campaign.
‘Fresh’ celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing their food system. Progressing from the industrial model, food contamination, environmental pollution, depletion of natural resources, and morbid obesity to forging healthier, sustainable alternatives, they offer a practical vision for a future of our food and our planet.
Screening Tue 4 Aug 6.30pm
Tags: film, Food, Friends of the Earth
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Food Futures: an Australian approach
Posted in Events by Kate Archdeacon on July 29th, 2009
Source: Rural Climate Network
Abstracts and conference registrations are invited for the PHAA conference, Food Futures: An Australian Approach, 20-21 April 2010 in Canberra.
Concerns about the relationship between food and the food system, nutrition, and population health are part of the motivation for the Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA) to facilitate a national conference seeking an overarching approach to food policy that looks well into the future. Although health may be the driver for the PHAA, any such national policy or approach must also take into account issues such as agriculture, scientific research, production and manufacture, environment, retail and community concerns, to appropriately encompass all aspects of food.
Abstract submission closes October 5
Tags: conference, Food, Visions
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Dr Shiv Chopra blows the whistle on food safety
Posted in Events by Kate Archdeacon on June 19th, 2009
Sourced from Real Food, Friends of the Earth’s sustainable food campaign.
When: 23 June 2009
Where: Green Building, 60 Leicester St, Carlton.
Time: From 6:30 PM
Bookings: Gene Ethics
Dr. Shiv Chopra is called a hero by David Suzuki and Vandana Shiva and speaks out against seed and chemical giant Monsanto. His evidence to the Canadian Parliament exposed dangerous foods, including genetic manipulation (GM) bovine growth hormone.
Photo of Canola Flowers by Flying Snow via Flickr
Tags: Food, free events, genetically modified
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