The Growing Food Justice team talk community farming on 3RRR
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.

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.
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.
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’.
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…
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…
Sustain CEO Nick Rose was featured in this piece on how Australia’s can beat soaring inflation and cut everyday food expenses.
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.
In his regular column, local food legend Costa Georgiadis shared his reflections as Sustain hits the nine year milestone.