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Click here to read this week’s tucker report, Nettie Wiebe’s speech from the La Via Campesina workshop and recipes for beetroot, carrot and blue cheese salad and beetroot risotto.

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Click here to read this week’s tucker report, Alison’s impressions of the Winter Farm Tour, Ride for the Rainforest and recipes for Cupboard Love Frittata and Top 20 salad.

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Post image for RCS international conference – Farmers… Heros of the future

Tue-Thur, 20-22nd July
Royal on the Park Hotel, Brisbane
$1710 for 3 days

Three days of information, brimming with innovation and inspiration, never before drawn together at a farming and grazing conference in Australia. Learn about the global view on food, carbon and farming ay keynote speakers. Rob Pekin from Food Connect will present at the event on Wed 21st July. Click here for more information.

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Tuesday 27th July, 6.30pm
Jagera Arts Centre, 121 Cordelia Street, South Brisbane
$0 – donation to Rainforest Rescue appreciated

8,811km – 18 countries – by bicycle – a slideshow

International adventure cyclist, Krista Bernard, recently returned from an 8,811km bicycle expedition from London to the…

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Sunday 8th August, 10am-5pm
The Bookfield Centre, 139 Brookfield Road, Kenmore Kills
$20, max. $50 for families

The symposium exploring the creation of an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, socially just human presence on the planet. Are you concerned, even anxious, about what the…

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Post image for Daryl Hannah, actor, environmental campaigner, to visit  Cairns

Actress, film maker and leading environmental campaigner, Daryl Hannah will arrive in Cairns to attend a major conference to discuss permaculture design and education in September this year.

The Australasian Permaculture Convergence, APC10, is an anticipated biennial event to be hosted…

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