Costa’s Corner – Sustain’s Ninth Birthday
In his regular column, local food legend Costa Georgiadis shared his reflections as Sustain hits the nine year milestone.

In his regular column, local food legend Costa Georgiadis shared his reflections as Sustain hits the nine year milestone.
Sustain is a “think and do” network, specialising in designing and building sustainable and healthy food systems. We work with governments, councils, and community leaders to help map local food systems, and develop evidence-based and achievable policies and programs. We sow the seeds of change with events, policy work, practice & thought leadership, capacity building, and collective action. We give people, councils, and organisations the tools they need to help them become empowered food citizens, supporting healthy communities, people and ecosystems.
Sustain CEO Nick Rose was featured in this piece on how Australia’s can beat soaring inflation and cut everyday food expenses.
Our pilot scheme to reduce single-use cardboard, paper and plastic was recently featured in The Guardian’s piece ‘Victoria trials reusable crates for fresh produce to cut ‘invisible’ waste from supply chain’.
In this 3RRR broadcast interview, Fakefasters Carlson, Kirby & Rachel chat with the Growing Food Justice community farmers Jess Redlich & Allara Briggs Patterson to talk about their work.
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…
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…
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…