SHOWING on ABC Television on Tuesday 21 October at 8.30pm is the documentary “The seed hunter“. Further information was reported in the Australian on 06 September Dr. Street, who travels the world in search of seeds, says ‘genetic variations are the best tool we have to deal with what is coming’. Dr Street works for the International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas.
GAYLE and Mike Quarmby’s Outback Pride project is promoting the Australian native food industry by developing a network of production sites within traditional aboriginal communites. The cultivation of Australian native food provides indigenous Australians with jobs and training within the horticulture and food industry. One of the bush foods higlighted in their latest newsletter is saltbush.
REPORTED in The Sydney Morning Herald on 12 Oct 2008 is an account of the research and benefits of greening our roofs and the future of urban farms in our cities. Patrick Blanc, the author of Vertical Gardens, was recently in Australia for the Green Roofs Organisation lecturing about roof top gardens and greening walls in cities around the world. He was responding to the existing interest in Australian universities and local councils about the suitable use of green walls and green roofs for our climatic conditions.
THE kumato story in The Australian [11-12 October 2008] suggested it was crossed with a bush tomato but on further reading in The Geelong Times [18 April 2007] it was originally developed from a wild tomato in the Galapagos Islands and crossed with another tomato variety. The Kakouros family in Victoria have been trialling this variety for a couple of years and it is now in grocers across Australia.
