Urban food & gardens

Food security is a new buzz word around. With the recent hikes in oil price, leading to large increases in the price of commodity grains (such as corn and soybeans) the world has seen riots over the price of food. Australian agriculture is going to be hit hard by climate change and what we grow and where we grow it, along with how we grow it is all going to be affected. Modern agriculture relies on oil – for the use of fertilizers and transport – so what happen when we run out of oil, or as oil gets so expensive we can no longer afford the fertilizers for our crops? Are there other ways to operate?

We will talk with Peta Christensen from ‘Cultivating Communities’ who has traveled the world looking at urban food solutions, as well as seeing the benefits of community gardens. And we will also talk with Martin Pritchard who has been on a guerilla gardening project as well as helping to organize the supermarket of the future the Eco-Market, a sustainable alternative to the one-stop shop.

We have also seen a rise in urban gardens – from community gardens, individual plot and even guerilla gardening. So we will talk urban gardens and urban food and see if we can inspire you to get out and grow some of your own! Unfortunately Ali is not with us tonight otherwise we would have heard an update on her Envrio-lution to keep her home grown tomatoes alive……but we believe the tomatoes are still alive and actually producing fruit. Photographic proof will be appearing on this blog soon– so stay tuned!