How Sustain is building healthier, just food systems by Bank Australia

How Sustain is building healthier, just food systems by Bank Australia

In this piece, Sustain staff speak to how food systems are endlessly complex, encompassing everything from food production through to policies, processing, community access and food waste management. As a Bank Australia customer and community customer grant recipient Sustain is addressing these intricacies at multiple leverage points, all while helping us make fruitful use of…

Building Healthy, Suburban Food Systems in Matters Journal

Building Healthy, Suburban Food Systems in Matters Journal

In this wide-ranging piece, Sustain CEO Nick Rose sits down with writer Nikki Stefanoff to discuss how Sustain’s work across urban farming, support for policymakers, advocacy and more are integral to building better food landscapes for everyday people. was featured in this piece on how Australia’s can beat soaring inflation and cut everyday food expenses.

Urban agriculture hits the airwaves on ABC radio Sydney

Urban agriculture hits the airwaves on ABC radio Sydney

Costa Georgiadis, Lou Ridsdale and Nick Rose had a chance to go beyond soundbites to cover the big picture food system crisis points and inspiring stories of local and personal action.  This was a great example of how to use multiple perspectives to tie a food-system story together and the role of tangible examples (like Costa’s farm-school-refugee community…

The Pandemic Gardening Survey in Permaculture News

The Pandemic Gardening Survey in Permaculture News

Our Pandemic Gardening Survey was recently featured in Permaculture Research institute’s Permaculture News. The survey, conducted in 2020, gathered responses from over 9,000 gardeners from urban, regional and remote communities across Australia who shared what food growing meant to them during COVID-19. Their stories are moving testaments to how edible gardening is good for the mind, body and…