By impact: Food Security/Drought/Farming

Bowraville Water Station

Nambucca Valley Council constructed a strategically located water filling station to provide rural residents and emergency services access to life saving supplies of water in the event rain tank supplies are depleted or power failure affects the ability to pump water. Check it out here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS09hZZ4d80
Home grown climate resilience – connecting with local place/environment

Addressing climate change can seem overwhelming and complex, but at the community level the solutions are surprisingly simple. This article provides insight into how we can connect with our local place and environment. Dr Jennifer Hamilton and Dr Sujata Allan give insight, after having looked for ways to help their community adapt to a changing…
Alma Place : A Sustainable Subdivision Case Study

The proposed Alma Place development, located at 24 Alma Road in Beechworth, provides a good case study of how the Sustainable Subdivisions Framework (SSF) can guide and facilitate exemplary sustainability outcomes on a small residential development project. Key initiatives proposed include: a subdivision layout designed to optimise solar orientation potential, a place encouraging produce growing…
Radicle Roots Community Garden – Coburg

At 193 Urquhart Street, Coburg. This is located on the Merri creek, on De Chene Reserve, on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people. Radicle Roots is a community garden created by the Guerilla Gardening Naarm Collective, which aims to respond to the escalating cost-of-living and climate crises by creating localised food systems…
Uniting Wodonga – Street Harvest

The Street Harvest project is being reinvigorated – Please consider growing an extra row of produce in your garden to support this project and Uniting in Wodonga. All produce can be dropped off at Uniting (1 Nilmar Avenue, Wodonga between. 9:30 am to 12:30 pm Monday to Friday). The project builds and encourages community capacity…
Grounded Australia 2024

GROUNDED is a cross between a world class conference, an informative field day and a cracking food festival. The first one was run in the beautiful Huon Valley in Southern Tasmania in December 2024. Inspired by Groundswell in the UK, and run with their blessing, GROUNDED is reimagining farmer learning by running multiple talks and…
Fork in the Road: Impacts of Climate Change on our Food Supply – Farmers for Climate Action report

This report, published by FCA, highlights the different climate impacts on the agrifood sector, the associated risks, and the opportunities emerging from them. It comprehensively covers the whole food supply chain, from inputs, to transport, to processing, storage, retail and consumption, before sketching out some proposals on how industry and governments should respond. Check out…
Climate Smart Farming Toolkit – Farmers for Climate Action

FCA has collated and organised the Climate Smart Farming Toolkit to support farmers. The Toolkit contains useful resources and information to help farmers maintain their knowledge on climate-related challenges, build on work farmers are already doing, or get started on implementing Climate Smart farming practices. Climate Smart farming is not just about emissions accounting and…
Wollondilly Shire Council – Mapping Sydney’s foodsheds

Local food production in the Sydney basin provides many benefits and underpins the resilience of the city. Yet competing priorities for Sydney’s fertile farmland and the impacts of climate change could threaten future supplies of fresh, local food. By mapping Sydney’s current and future food production, an evidence base was created to support effective policies…
GWYMAC Landcare – Preparing for the next Big Dry

GWYMAC Landcare coordinates projects across 40,000 sqm of land that spans the Macintyre and Gwydir catchments and the communities of Inverell, Delungra, Ashford, Yetman, Tingha and Bundarra. With the help of a grant from the NSW Government, GWYMAC Landcare recently staged a series of workshops so landholders could learn about regenerative agriculture. A rehydration workshop,…
Moodji Farm – Cultivating climate resilience farming with indigenous knowledge

Moodji (meaning ‘friend’ in the native Djiranganj language) farm is a fully operational urban & Indigenous farm through which people of all ages and backgrounds can come together to share histories, care-for-country and learn from each other through the growing of local food. Located on Merrimans Aboriginal Lands Council land adjoining Bermagui Preschool, the farm…
Pigeonpea in the mix as search begins for more heat tolerant crops

This article details research that has begun with the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) and ANU into the development of heat-tolerant crop genetics, and identifying what it is that makes crops able to survive, grow and continue to produce under high-temperature conditions. Pigeonpea is a potential crop that may be added to the mix…
ANU – Innovating access to local produce

Kayleigh Sleath is an undergraduate Bachelor of Engineering Research and Development student at The Australian National University (ANU). Kayleigh has developed an app, called Ohna, that allows people to look through the produce available at the Capital Region Farmers Market in Canberra and pre-order their groceries. Kayleigh is working with the Market organisers, stallholders, and…
Farmers for Climate Action

Farmers for Climate Action aims to influence Australia to adopt strong economy-wide climate policies and realise a prosperous and sustainable future, full of opportunity for farmers and farming communities. Composed of farmers, agricultural leaders and rural Australians, the movement champions ambitious action, connects farmers with each other, and supports them in advocating for and enacting…
Sustain, the Australian Food Network

Sustain exists to champion the transition to healthy, equitable and sustainable food systems. To do this, they empower people, government and organisations with the knowledge, tools and connections they need to become agents of food system transformation. To realise that mission, they ‘Think’ (Advocacy, Research), ‘Do’ (Consulting & Capacity Building, Growing Food Justice, Community Food…
Foodprint Melbourne

Foodprint Melbourne is a research project that investigates ways of strengthening the resilience of Mebourne’s food system to increase equitable access to fresh, healthy foods and promote sustainable production and consumption for current and future generations. The current phase of the project aims to strengthen the resilience of Victoria’s food system to the impacts of…
Local Food Connect

Local Food Connect is a website and associated newsletter that promotes all aspects of local food around North East Melbourne and makes people around North East Melbourne feel part of a local food community. The material centres on 5 databases:Upcoming local food-related events: all the upcoming events of various types, around 200 per monthLocal food…
Common Ground Project

Common Ground Project is a regenerative farm and social enterprise that promotes food security by creating fair access to locally grown, healthy food. They exist to empower agency and advocacy by offering an inclusive space for growing, cooking, knowledge sharing, and ongoing community collaboration. Grounded in regenerative farming, and in recognition of the urgent need…
CERES

Established in 1982, CERES has grown over many decades to include an online grocery, nursery and bookstore, urban farms, ethical wood merchant, and education centre. Their vision is for people to fall in love with the Earth again, creating home for nature and people, school for discovery and learning, farming with their hands in the…
Moving Feast

Moving Feast is a network of for-purpose social enterprises and individual and group collaborators working as catalysts for a connected, fair and regenerative Victorian food system. Partners leading network actions include CERES, Collingwood Children’s Farm, Common Ground Project, Community Grocer, Cultivating Community, Melbourne Farmers Markets, Open Food Network and STREAT. Moving Feast works with diverse…
Growing Southern Gippsland

Growing Southern Gippsland is a collaboration between the Bass Coast Landcare Network, the South Gippsland Landcare Network, Federation University Australia, RMIT University and Bass Coast Shire Council. It is a portal that brings together regionally specific climate change information that can be used by the agricultural sector to help with climate change planning and adaptation.…