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Green solution just outside your door

THE English have their allotments; in Sydney we use the streets. In a variation on guerilla gardening, Sydneysiders are moving veggie plots from the backyard to the street verge, and converting formerly fallow public land into mini-market gardens.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/street-and-two-veg-a-green-solution-just-outside-your-door/2008/10/06/1223145261857.html

Grocery report's disparities only small fry [SMH]

Let's begin with the humble potato.

On Thursday and Friday I spoke to several potato farmers. They did not want their names used; they feared that would put their livelihoods at risk. Such fear is commonplace. As one grower's wife told me, "The merchants are ruthless, don't worry. We've had to put up with a lot of abuse."

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/08/10/1218306657424.html

Local plot thickens and leaves planners for dust [SMH]

Chippendale is revolting. With luck, it'll spread. "It's important that you don't think I'm good at this," says Michael Mobbs, and he doesn't mean revolt, which is rather his forte. "I'm not Peter Cundall. That's the point. You don't have to be."

http://www.smh.com.au/news/elizabeth-farrelly/local-plot-thickens-and-leaves-planners-for-dust/2008/08/12/1218306883552.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1

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