Johanna Knox will talk about issues around the Food Bill currently before Parliament.
Johanna Knox is a writer and researcher for magazines, educational publications, and exhibitions. She specialises in issues around food and resilience. She has spent time recently coming to grips with and writing about the Food Bill, and in particular what it may mean for cottage-scale trading. She will speak very briefly about where the Bill is currently at, then open for questions.

The meeting will be held at New Crossways, Roxburgh St, Mt Victoria.. All welcome.

Permaculture is the harmonious integration of landscape and people — providing their food, energy, shelter, and other material and non-material needs in a sustainable way.
The philosophy behind permaculture is one of working with, rather than against, nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless action; of looking at systems in all their functions, rather than asking only one yield of them; and allowing systems to demonstrate their own evolutions.

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For ANYONE that goes bush or camping now and then, is a serious tramper, or wants to up-skill incase of a natural disaster. This is the beginning of the survival kit you keep in your head rather than your backpack. Learn about shelters made from natural materials, wild food foraging, safe water gathering and filtering, and friction fire making. You’ll be surprised what you don’t already know.