[Peakoil-announce] Food Matters Workshop

[Alex Pollard]

An interesting workshop I think will be worth attending, see below.

Alex
O4O4873828

President
ACT Peak Oil Inc.
http://act-peakoil.org

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We are taking a whole of problem approach to food and the carbon footprint, 
from looking at how things are grown - eg conventional agricultural 
fertilisation and tillage practices add very substantially to the carbon 
footprint of our food; what is grown, what we puchase from where; how we 
eat, cook, prepare and save it; and what we can do to reduce carbon impacts 
from food waste.  I have included this last part because food makes up 
almost 50% of the domestic waste stream in the ACT (according to the last 
rubbish audit).  We are also looking at things like the need to increase 
domestic biodiversity and to plant differently, if we are seeking to 
provide more local content to our food in our own gardens.

The workshop is being run by Joyce Wilkie of Allsun Farm and myself (an 
avid organic backyard grower).  It runs from 10-3pm, at Lion's Youth Haven 
on Kambah Pool Road, costs $40 and includes lunch and refreshments.  I 
attach our flyer.

Thanks

FIona

Food Matters 
 
A workshop about food: how we eat it, cook it, where it comes 
from and whether our food choices can make a difference 
 

Sunday 14 September 2008  10am to 3pm 
Lions Youth Haven, Kambah Pool Road 
 

Everyone’s heard about global warming.  But how many of us know that the 
food we eat often adds to it? 
 

The distance food travels to get to our table, where and how it is grown, 
and what we choose to eat can increase greenhouse gases, global warming and 
our own carbon footprints. 
 

Find out how you can eat well and more sustainably at the Food Matters 
Workshop, which will  :  
 

• Look at impacts of how our food is currently grown and supplied and 
explore what might happen as oil costs continue to rise 
• Show what we can all do to start making changes now 
• Find ways to plan your food supply as if global warming really mattered  
• Gain practical tools and methods to reduce the carbon footprint of what 
you eat 
• And  
 enjoy good food and conversation. 
 

Workshop leaders are commercial organic vegetable grower Joyce Wilkie of 
Allsun Farm, Gundaroo, and Fiona Tito-Wheatland of Enduring Solutions who 
grows a vigorous kitchen garden in Kambah. 
 
Cost: $40 – Lunch and morning tea provided.    Places limited, so book 
early 


Fiona Tito-Wheatland
11 Masters Place
KAMBAH  ACT  2902

Mob: 0412 172 876
Phone: 02 6231 4221
Fax: 02 6231 1640