Community Food Forests with Gavin Hardy and Morag Gamble

In this episode I am speaking with Churchill Fellow, Community Food Forester, Community Gardens Australia - QLD Coordinator, muliti-award-winning Landscape Architect and Permaculture Educator, Gavin Hardy  - based not far from me in Meanjin Brisbane.

Gav and I go way back - to the early days of setting up Northey Street City Farm in Brisbane, where he is now the education coordinator.

In 2020 Gav was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to investigate the potential of community food forests and orchards . Because of the pandemic his journey was delayed, but finally he got to visit 10 of the world’s exemplar sites and recorded 51 projects in the USA, Canada, UK, The Netherlands and Italy. We sat down shortly after his report was released for this chat.

In this conversation, we talk about what he learned, the insights and recommendations for establishing successful community food forest and orchard projects here in Australia (but obviously ideas that are  relevant around the world) as well as his path into permaculture and how his livelihood is connected.

Gavin's Churchill Fellowship Report.

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