ALF Workshop on Managing Garden Soils

by | 24 Oct 2011 | Event, Local Food, SLAM

Workshop on Managing Garden Soils Only a few places left in this workshop, designed specifically for the home gardener! Armidale Local Food (ALF) is offering an opportunity to learn how to make the most of your garden soil, building a healthy and productive...

Community Garden working bee

by | 24 Oct 2011 | Event, Garden, Local Food, SLAM

At this stage, we need lots of discussion and planning as much as a working bee, so hopefully there’ll be time for a bit of both. Come along on Sunday afternoon, it will give us a chance to meet each other and exchange ideas, as well as making a start on dealing...

ALF Focus on Food at Thursday Forum

by | 4 Oct 2011 | Event, Local Food, SLAM

Food, glorious food – fresh, local and home-grown – is the inspiration for the next SLA forum at 7pm this Thursday, October 6th, at Kent House. Robert Gasparre will speak about the past, present and future of the Farmers’ Market, now firmly...

Local food and wine at Duval College

by | 25 Aug 2011 | Event, Local Food, SLAM

Duval College Senior Common Room invites you to this year’s tasting of local food and cold climate wine on Friday, 2 September from 6.00 pm. Local wineries featured include  Whyworry (Uralla), Boorolong Road (Armidale) and Wright Robertson (Glencoe). Locally grown and...

Meet Polly Apio

by | 22 Jun 2011 | Event, Local Food, SLAM

Come and meet Polly Apio and gain a fascinating new perspective on feeding the world over the coming century. It isn’t just about huge commercial farms, heavy machinery and irrigation systems; most of the world’s food is actually grown by small scale...

ALF Meeting June 2011

by | 3 Jun 2011 | Event, Local Food, SLAM

The  June ALF Meeting will be held at 2 pm Saturday 4th June at the Landcare Community Resource Centre, Level 1, 3/119 Beardy St in the East Mall (next door to the Colour Copy Centre) Everyone is welcome, this month we will be discussing community gardens Feel free to...

“Talking about Weather” climate conference

by | 28 Apr 2011 | Event, Local Food, SLAM

Border Rivers-Gwydir CMA Climate Conference May 18-19 at the Inverell RSL Take part in this conference to understand the risks to farms and families and find out how you can take control of your future, in town and on the land. We will be talking about the weather,...

ALF Meeting April 2011

by | 30 Mar 2011 | Event, Local Food, SLAM

The next ALF meeting will be held on Saturday, April 2 2011 at 2 pm at the Community Cottage, 3 Alexander St Girraween. New participants are always very welcome, so come along and join us. We try to keep the business side of the meetings as brief as possible, and then...

3rd Annual Home-grown Garden Tour

by | 20 Feb 2011 | Event, Local Food, SLAM

Whatever you do, don’t miss ALF’s 3rd Home-grown Garden Tour on the first weekend in March. This is a great opportunity to see 10 productive backyard gardens in Armidale and gather heaps of good ideas and useful info about compost, bees, worm farms, fruit...