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05/09/2021

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Kylie’s 1987 debut single “The Loco-motion” was re-produced in ’88 with the Hit Factory’s Stock Aitken and Waterman for this UK number 2 hit. It was also h...

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Who can forget the column in the Sydney Morning Herald by Elizabeth Farrelly, - Grassroots efforts boost sustainability whilst the big boys look the other way - about the capacity of the suburban strip to produce volume based quantities of neighbourhood nutrition. Last year from one small verge location the URBAN FOOD STREET neighbourhood produced just over 2400 units of winter greens over a 12 week period from June to September. Missed the column?

Here is a snippet. “Then there’s agriculture sans paddock. Urban Food Street set itself to challenge conventional urban design and “the car-centric status quo of our roads and nature strips”. In 2009, answering Ken Maher’s call for “an architecture that reflects life at a deeper level,” architecture graduate Caroline Kemp and horticulturist Duncan McNaught began “retrofitting” suburban streets to produce edible food. That’s familiar enough. What’s unfamiliar is the quantity.

The common criticism of urban agriculture, from Edward Glaeser and others, is volume-based. Yet from only six streets, UFS now produces commercial quantities of spray-free, no-food-miles sustenance.”

2400 units from a singular verge location in a 12 week period. Remarkable really!!! .

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