Fair Food Week 2014

This is the report to be delivered by outgoing AFSA President, Michael Croft, at the AGM to be held on 18 November 2014, at Byron Bay Community Centre...

Fair Food Week is almost upon us, and what a fantastic week it promises to be! There are dozens of events celebrating the pleasure and values that food embodies for us all.

Send photos of your magnificent produce (e.g. your farm, garden or its bounty) and dishes (e.g. scenes of cooking, sharing food or your creation). Entries close 19 October 2014.

As I sit here in Randwick writing this, I look through the now-more-than 60 event listings for Fair Food Week 2014 on the Fair Food Week website.

More and more people are embracing Fair Food – healthy nutritious food that is produced locally - at an affordable price for consumers and with a fair return to farmers. Fair Food Week 2014 will run from 10-19 October and will celebrate the International Year of Family Farming.

Here's a good idea. Why not join our National Coordinating Team for Fair Food Week 2014?

In February, the Federal Government axed the $1.5 mn Community Food Fund. If you are from one of those groups that missed out on the grant, please tell us...

DARK AND HUMID it might have been in Sydney last Friday evening...