Events for Sustainable Food book

The Sustainable Food book will be promoted by In Conversation Events where I’ll be talking with gardeners, farmers and folk who are passionate about food and who are growing, buying and supporting local farmers.  I’d love to see you there, hear your story or answer your questions about how we can sustain our food in our cities and the country.  The list below doesn’t include media events.  I’m looking forward to the media... Read More

Costa, gardeners and I talking about sustainable food

This week Costa, Transition Bondi, gardeners and I discussed Sustainable Food, gardening and how we love our Earth back to health.  It’s a twelve minute vid and shows us talking with each other. A longer one, one hour, is here. Great to share the space and ideas, M  Read More

Homer, the Iliad and a French woman’s view of his poem and ‘force’

A brief note here about force and poetry and what role we give to force in our human lives. In 1939 Simone Veil wrote an essay while living in Paris about Homer’s poem, the Iliad.  She wrote it just before the Nazi army took the city and she had to flee to London.  The essay had to be printed elsewhere, later.  It’s called, L’Iliade ou le Poeme de la Force’ and her understanding of the Iliad is quoted in the Introduction to The... Read More

Join the conversation about food at Booksplus, Bathurst

Lots of energy and action for local food and gardening at Bathurst, NSW, where one of the organisers for a conversation about food and sustaining our culture, Jenny, from the bookshop, BooksPlus, has sent me this note:   “Things are prett much organised, except for a lot more promotion, which I will get stuck into. We will be sending out our mailout next  week, and Rahamim will then circulate the invitation to  their email networks... Read More

Reflections on Lombok

14 October 2012   Some observations made during my six weeks in Lombok, Indonesia, a tropical island – my first stay there.  I arrived at the end of August 2012 and left in the middle of October: Lombok has about 4 m people on an area about the size of the Sydney wider metropolitan area “villa’ is perhaps the most abused word in Lombok and Bali, especially when used in ads, the Web and promotion – don’t be confident... Read More