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  • Mt Tamborine Food Exchange

    Mt Tamborine Food Exchange

    My Great Notion of the Week this week is the Mount Tamborine Edible Exchange shared by Wavy.

    Wavy shows off ginger at the Mt Tambourine Edible Exchange

    It’s an honour system where people can bring food to the central roadside exchange and take food away. No money changes hands. They post pictures online so everyone knows what’s in the food exchange. There’s pictures and more details on EcoRadio.net

    Wavy submitted that as a contribution to my Make and Taste sessions designed to get different people in a workplace sharing food with their colleagues and showing how they make it. However we activate our food networks, the important thing is that sharing food disengages us from being nodes of consumption and converts us into hubs of production. Now that’s a great notion.

  • Jordanians harvest urban wheat

    Jordanians harvest urban wheat

    Urban farmers in Jordan’s capital, Ammam, have harvested a second crop of wheat grown in the ancient city’s glamorous shopping district.

    One of the Al-Barakeh wheat fields in Ammam

    The food sovereignty initiative was begun by a social enterprise, Al-Barakeh, in 2019 when bread became scarce during a strict CoViD lockdown. Until the 1960’s Jordan was a significant wheat exporter, but urbanisation, globalisation and an end to government subsidies means the nation now imports 97 percent of its wheat. Al Barakeh now sell’s 700 bags of bread every day, made with local wheat. Al-Barakeh founder, Rabee Zureikat, says that the word  Barakeh means blessing, “a value system based on sharing and cooperation, being a part of a community and part of nature.”

    Al Barakeh sources

    https://www.jordantimes.com/news/local/collective-farming-project-sows-seeds-agricultural-independence

    https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2021/1004/Jordanians-get-a-taste-of-history-in-their-daily-bread

    https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2021/1004/Jordanians-get-a-taste-of-history-in-their-daily-bread

  • Stronger Together – Activists chat

    Stronger Together – Activists chat

    Activists from legal, communications, mutual aid and class mobilisation backgrounds met to discuss ways that they might be stronger together at a Community Day for Climate at Brisbane’s Northey Street City Farm organised by XR Meanjin.

    Geoff Ebbs, Andy Paine and Devlin Pointon at XR Community Day for Climate

    https://soundcloud.com/thegeneratornews/sets/ecoradio