Another Food Forum is planned for 22nd September to continue discussions started at our last Food Forum on 18th August. This was successful with some good ideas emerging from the enthusiastic group, which assembled for our film and discussion.

This forum will show ‘Food Inc’ (an unflattering look inside America’s corporate controlled food industry.) and provide a venue for people from different groups to get together and look at issues collectively. As someone mentioned in the forum, there are many different groups and clubs in Apollo Bay and we often work at issues separately. Sometimes a collective approach can be more effective. So we are happy to provide this forum as a venue for representatives from different groups, and anyone else interested in the issue, to come and work on things together.

Ideas /actions from last Forum:

• Support permaculture group in setting up a stall for local people to sell their produce.
• Food swap days
• Farmers markets
• Community Supported Agriculture in a local location
• Food trees in nature strips and parks
• Food and produce mapping in the region

We are open to new ideas, so if you want to come along and put in your 2 cents worth, we have another Food Forum planned for 22nd September. We will have another film and a discussion to follow.

The main aim of the Forum is to make it easier for people in the Bay to access locally-grown food. We can see that transport, because of oil shortages and rising prices, is going to become more and more expensive – which will make food more and more expensive. Also when fresh food is transported over large distances and stored for long periods it loses a lot of its goodness.

We are in a very lucky situation here in Apollo Bay, where there is ample annual rainfall, and good soils for growing food and other produce. Just imagine being able to access fresh organic food all year round. So come along, enjoy our film and be prepared for a lively discussion.

Where: Marrar Woorn
When: 7.00 – 9.30 pm, 22 September
Bring some food to nibble on.

For information on the Forum contact Magaer Lennox on 5237 9248.

Calling all foodies, gardeners, educators, jack-of-all-trades, organisers and fun lovers! Want to source more local, fresh and organic food in Apollo Bay?

Come along and be part of the solution in an evening of inspiring information including a screening of “The Power of Community”.

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, Cuba’s economy went into a tailspin. With imports of oil cut by more than half – and food by 80 percent – people were desperate. This film tells of the hardships and struggles as well as the community and creativity of the Cuban people during this difficult time. Cubans share how they transitioned from a highly mechanized, industrial agricultural system to one using organic methods of farming and local, urban gardens.

Learn about food miles, Community Supported Agriculture systems and sustainable food choices that are good for you and the planet. Free of charge.

When: Wednesday 18 August
Where: Marrar Woorn
When: 7.00 – 9.30 pm