Savannah Supski has always been passionate about food and justice. In 2019 she embarked on Bachelor of Food Studies, and met Dr Nick Rose and Dr Kelly Donati from Sustain. With Nick’s encouragement and mentorship, Savannah and her peers co-founded Just Food Collective, a youth-centred food justice not-for-profit group. As Nick facilitated Just Food’s first…
Olive and Date, opened in 2017 by Mirvat El-Ghalainy, with the focus on creating employment opportunities for young female university graduates who may find it hard to find employment opportunities otherwise.
In May 2021 Reem went 12 days without being able to work at her rabbit farm, as Israel maintained sustained bombing within the area. In 2014, at the age of 30, she had established the 90 sqm rooftop farm as a means to sustain the ten members in her family unit. Her husband had recently lost his farm work due when it was destroyed under Israeli aggression, a common narrative in Gaza.
On a windy and cold afternoon in late June, in western regional Victoria, I pulled my car over out of pure relief. I was met with what I had recently become accustomed to: ineffable beauty. I had driven a red dirt road over four one-way bridges and two hairpin turns, all in the middle of…