As everyone who saw her will attest, Devita Davison of Foodlab Detroit left an amazing impression after a whirlwind three days in Melbourne, visiting Darebin, William Angliss Institute and Pakenham for the Cardinia Food Forum. These are her reflections at the end of her trip to Australia: Wow! My time spent in…
On 1 November 2017 Sustain Executive Director travelled to Perth to attend the launch of the Heart Foundation’s Healthy Food tool, part of its Healthy and Active by Design website. The Healthy Food tool is designed for planners, policy makers and health professionals to integrate provision for healthy food outlets…
Urban Agriculture Forum: From Resilience to Liveability Melbourne, Australia 23-24 February 2018 Call for Papers Abstracts due: December 20, 2017 Registration deadline for presenters: 25 January, 2018 Climate change. Health and wellbeing. Connected and flourishing communities. Sustainability. Resilience. Justice. Food systems are at the centre of…
From 12-14th July over 900 participants from around Melbourne, Australia and overseas attended the Eco City World Summit to hear from international experts, government, industry and community leaders, on all topics connected with meeting the major sustainability challenges of this century. The headline keynote speaker was formed US Vice-President Al…
VISION [This] is a flourishing place to co-create and connect to a local food system. This is secure, sustainable, healthy and fair. [This place] will reflect and celebrate intercultural diversity, where all are welcome and included for generations to come. OBJECTIVES 1. To inspire and break new ground in the collaborative stewardship of a transformative…
Community Food Hubs Conference and National Tour Keynotes and Vox Pops “Well done, it was the best conference I have ever been to. Amazing presentations, panels and workshops.” Attendee, Bendigo Community Food Hubs Conference, 2016 Between August 8-18, Sustain facilitated Australia’s first national community food hubs conference and speaking tour.…
On 8-9 August 2016, Sustain coordinated the inaugural Community Food Hubs Conference in Bendigo with Dr Jen Alden of Growing Change. Over 170 people attended two full days at the Capital Theatre in Bendigo, with a delicious locally-catered dinner on Monday 8th August, featuring Castlemaine social enterprise Growing Abundance, and…
Explore the role urban agriculture and community empowerment play in securing food justice, by providing access to “Good Food For All”. Poverty and food insecurity are on the rise in Victoria. Proposed cuts in welfare benefits in the Federal budget will push thousands more of the most vulnerable members…
From August 8-18, Sustain facilitated Australia’s first national community food hubs speaking tour. This tour encompassed 13 separate events in every state and territory bar SA and the NT.
Sustain is working with Melbourne University’s Burnley Campus, the City of Yarra, Moreland Food Gardens Network, 3000 acres, Cultivating Community, and Port Phillip EcoCentre in the coordination and hosting of a special 2-day forum to celebrate, connect and further empower Melbourne’s expanding urban agriculture community. Forum Dates: 20 & 21…
