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We do have young people in Sustainable Communities SA and growing with babies arriving. We celebrate this and it motivates us to think of our world as they come in to it and how we can make it a better place. And I know we have quite a few children too. A video was made… Read more
A new community group has started at Enfield. Building community and lowering personal footprint through improving our use of food were the main interests. Rachel already grows quite a lot of her own fruit and vegetables and also teaches people with disadvantage and disability how to grow food. Another member enjoys preserving food and learning to use… Read more
Come to bring and buy, swap and share your locally grown fruit and vegetables labelled with the locality in which it is grown for fruit fly detection. Have morning tea where you can meet new people and chat with friends. Free Australian plants are available and there are 8 LETS stalls. This month Alice Blackwood will… Read more
The 3rd Annual General Meeting of Sustainable Communities SA was held on Thursday 26 May 2011 at the Payneham Community Centre. Convenor, Debbie Saegenschnitter, gave the Annual Report 2011 that included many achievements over the past year. Our membership has grown, we have many new Community Groups around Adelaide and in regional areas and we… Read more
In the report summarising the findings of last year’s consultation process for the South Australian Strategic Plan is the following statement: A key aspiration from the 2010 consultation that was not strongly identified four years ago was the desire to eat fresh, healthy food that has been grown at home or obtained from local community gardens…. Read more
Did you catch up with the film Magic Harvest at the Adelaide Film Festival? Adelaide writer and gardener Lolo Houbein wrote One Magic Square, showing how a square metre of land can be enough to grow a food garden. The book inspired a local project in the City of Onkaparinga where the ideas were put… Read more
Our first market was a great success. The next one will be even better with more space for produce for sale, swap and share and growers stalls. People living in the area who benefit from the early market gardens in the area are phoning up about the fuit and vegetables that they have available. How… Read more
Building friendships and good relationships between neighbours is an important part of creating a resilient community. Living locally means getting to know the people who live around you. It’s easy to help or ask for help from neighbours that you know and this can lead to all kinds of interactions that benefit everyone. The Messenger Newspaper… Read more
The Transition Communities North Mount Lofty Ranges (TCNMLR) Group is associated with Sustainable Communities SA. After a successful series of film nights in four centres covering four local government areas there is an enthusiastic group of members. Their first activity is to have an OOOOBY (Out Of Our Own BackYard) Stall at the Seven Hill… Read more
On Tuesday I visited Walyo Yerta, the young and lush new community garden behind Veale Gardens on South Terrace near Morphett Street. Raised garden beds using the recycled plastic product from Advanced Plastic Recycling in lovely shapes with a new teepee for the beans to climb. After four months gardeners are harvesting vegetables and herbs… Read more
Welcome to our new website. To celebrate our growing and expanding memberships Sustainable Communities NPSP is now Sustainable Communities South Australia Inc. To reflect our name change we have also changed to this website address.
Feral Fruit Trees Melbourne promotes promotes localized food gathering in cities where food is being obtained from increasingly distant sources. Fruit trees growing in or overhanging public spaces are accessible to the urban hunter-gatherer. Fruit lying outside the boundary of private property for instance on a branch hanging over a fence is considered to be… Read more