Food and where it comes from is an ongoing theme in RetroSuburbia. This essay extends on the discussions in Chapter 29, Sustainable and sustaining diet, and the further information given in Appendix 4, Retrosuburban diet. It outlines David’s vision for a localised, resilient food system in an energy descent future and compares this with the current average Australian diet.
Whether you call it a pandemic or a plandemic, Covid and the responses to it have turned our world upside down. For some unknown but large number of Australians, the division of our country into the vaxxed and the unvaxxed is challenging what we thought was true and good about our country, and created doubt and conflict though our families, schools, communities and workplaces. The consequent questioning and destabilisation of our faith in our support networks and institutions has caused many to pull their heads in to avoid conflict. Getting vaxxed, whether they thought it was a good idea or not, seemed to be the only way to keep the peace, get by, or even just survive. For some small proportion, with more psychological resources, it triggered a sense of solidarity with the unvaxxed who are fast becoming second class citizens.
Q&A Session with Delvin Solkinson’s “Trans Pacific Partnership” project producing a local festival mag from the west coast of Canada. Inevitably I said too much for Delvin to use in full, but he thought it should be available somewhere, so here it is.
Listen to David reading this piece: Heritage restored Warners Track in Tasmania was built by farming pioneers in the 1890s in the Meander locality of northern Tasmania to provide access from Jackeys Marsh up to the alpine summer grazing pastures of the Central Plateau. It followed the old Aboriginal migration route and, before the highway
Seven episodes of hands-in-the-dough homesteading magic! Su shares tried-and-tested skills from tortillas to bread-making with her signature wicked humour.
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