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Food Resilience in the face of climate change, peak oil and economic turmoil (10)

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Community gardens - Wellington region - E Petition

Hi, I have created an E petition to have a council resource provided to assist all the Wellington community gardens, if you support gardens…

Started by mac_healer

0 Jun 11, 2011

Urban Foraging in Christchurch

Hi all, you've probably seen the article in the Press today. If not, here is the link: - http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/christchurc

Started by Christoph Hensch

8 Nov 18, 2009
Reply by Jennifer F Aird

Microwaved water and plant health from Wally Richards newsletter in Garden Gloves newsletter

For your interest from Wally: I also received a very interesting email with pictures which originated from a School Science Project. The p…

Started by Deirdre Kent

0 Oct 4, 2009

Plotting community gardens in Aotearoa New Zealand

There are so many community gardens underway or starting around the place. A few are mentioned within this social network, but details are…

Started by Stephen Blyth

0 Aug 17, 2009

Kefir, Wonder food of lactic proportions, or nothing but a sour taste in your mouth?

Am looking into Kefir as a nutritional support food... It seems to be a wonderous food modifier, and i would love to hear peoples experienc…

Started by Simon Godfrey

4 Mar 29, 2009
Reply by maryanne

Building a resilent food culture

Gidday The price of food is a popular conversation topic over increasingly meagre portions. What have the different groups been up to aro…

Started by Ben Thompson

2 Jan 31, 2009
Reply by Joel Hildebrandt

What the shops are short of these days

What are people noticing? I noticed there has been difficulty getting lentils and barley lately, the organic ones. Also today our supermark…

Started by Deirdre Kent

6 Jan 13, 2009
Reply by Eli Soothill

Slow Food and Transition Towns

I've been wondering if around NZ there is much crossover or contact between Transition Towns groups and Slow Food groups? Seems to me that…

Started by Johanna Knox

0 Nov 5, 2008

Food resilience and the Council's contribution

Kapiti Coast District Council has a Water Use Coordinator who is a great networker. Today with help from Transition Towns of Otaki and Tran…

Started by Deirdre Kent

3 Jun 19, 2008
Reply by Samuel Campbell

Preserving food after oil

I want to use whey to preserve olives but can't find anything on the internet of great use. Anyone know where to get this information?

Started by Deirdre Kent

2 Jun 12, 2008
Reply by Deirdre Kent

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