Care Farming & Gardening in the Climate Emergency - Urban Agriculture Month & Forum

Australia’s first national Urban Food Month (UAM) kicks off in April with a host of opportunities to learn, share and get involved!

Listen in to my conversation with this weeks change making guests Councillor Jess Miller, Councillor with the City of Sydney, Naomi Lacey, President, Community Gardens Australia, and Dr Nick Rose, Executive Director, SUSTAIN The Australian Food Network and Lecturer, Food Studies and Food Systems, William Angliss Institute, to hear about ‘what’ it’s all about.

The UAM includes the Urban Agriculture Forum (UAF) with inspiring local and international speakers, diverse webinars and community workshops and events across the country. UAM and UAF offer an amazing opportunity to everyone, wherever you are, to learn, be inspired and get involved to help grow urban agriculture - a story the 2020 National Pandemic Gardening Survey & Findings has done great things to picture and promote.

Care Gardening in times of crisis - for resilience, food security, community & connection - to green our cities, heal ourselves and our places, can gives us joy, and a greater sense of confidence, agency and comfort in uncertain times.

They’re thing’s we can all do with a lot more of now - and individuals, communities and social innovators across the country are getting in and on with it: reinventing ‘wartime Victory Gardens’, community gardens and more in diverse and creative ways to have fun, and respond to our current crises - health, climate, social isolation, environment.