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Vale Archie Roach
Thank you .... soar with your spirits now

A STATEMENT BY AMOS AND EBAN ROACH ON BEHALF OF THE ROACH FAMILY

We are heartbroken to announce the passing of Gunditjmara (Kirrae Whurrong/Djab Wurrung), Bundjalung Senior Elder, songman and storyteller Archie Roach.

Archie passed, surrounded by his family and loved ones, at Warrnambool Base Hospital after a long illness. We thank all the staff who have cared for Archie over the past month.

Archie wanted all of his many fans to know how much he loves you for supporting him along the way.

We are so proud of everything our dad achieved in his remarkable life. He was a healer and unifying force. His music brought people together.

A private ceremony will follow.

We ask that the media please respect the family’s privacy.

Archie’s sons, Amos and Eban Roach, have given permission for Archie’s name, image and music to be used, so that his legacy will continue to inspire.

Photograph by Phil Nitchie

With Laura Dalrymple, Feather and Bone Butchery, on ethical omnivory, community, books & more - Nourishing Matters to Chew On A warm, wideranging conversation with the wonderful Laura Dalrymple who, with partner Grant Hilliard, established the Feather and Bone Butchery in 2006 and co-authored The Ethical Omnivore published in 2020. Laura and Grant recently opened their new store in Charing Cross, Sydney, a great reason to....

A great episode for you/your students if you're tackling the story and impacts of junk foods and what they do to human health and the health of our planet!

In this week's episode, a great catch up & discussion with Phil all about UPF's, their rise and the surge of research that's underway into their health and environmental impacts; the mounting evidence and case for urgent policy and other action to address the impacts of these foods. Listen in @ omny.fm/shows/nourishing

Phil and I spoke in 2020 for one of Nourishing Matters scene setting episodes. Since then, COP26 in late '21 shone the light on the need to redress agricultural land clearing that UPF's help drive

And as a consumer, listen through to hear four great tips from Phil to help you better recognise and avoid UPF's: Yup! if products are highly processed, packaged and claim to be healthy, have multiple ingredients you and your grandmother would never recognise and are covered in marketing, watch out!

Phil's a leading public health and food systems researcher, based at DEAKIN University, who regularly consults to international organisations and supervises PhD students doing incredible research into the health, environmental and systems impacts of ultra-processed foods and more.

Listen back to my conversation with Phil in
late 2020 that was all about how junk foods are junking our health and the planet ... and listen in to this episode to hear how the case for action by policy makers is growing.

Deakin University Public Health Association of Australia Dietitians Australia United Nations Food Systems Coordination Hub Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) World Health Organization (WHO) CGIAR

Hello EduGrow FB followers, I think quite a few visitors to this page may know Naomi and Gav - so listen in if you'd like to @ omny.fm/shows/nourishing

This week, a great conversation with Naomi and Gavin, & super grounded, big gardening ideas, forward thinking, growing it up and getting it done - via research, capacity building and working in, with and for community to grow more food - and more community gardens, food forests and orchards.

Naomi is President of CGA and Gavin the QLD Coordinator and they are both Churchill Fellows about to set off on their COVID delayed research trips - BUT COVID meant their schedules are even bigger and better ....so many Zoom meetings, webinars and chats! so many people to meet!

Naomi's research aims to help strengthen and grow the organisation and the movement by learning about and sharing new social and other food 'enterprise' forms that can help achieve that. Gavin's study tour will see him dig in to research and learn more about urban (and other) models for food forests and orchards.

Great people doing amazing research - fit for people, food security and community in times like these (COVID, high food prices, climate change & more!).

Love your work you two. Am available to travel! X

Community Gardens Australia
Northey Street City Farm
Sustain: The Australian Food Network
Permaculture Research Institute of Australia
The Resilience Project
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This year, NATIONAL RECONCILIATION WEEK 27 May - 3 June, 2022 theme, is “Be Brave. Make Change” and a call to all Australians— individuals, families, communities, organisations and government—to Be Brave and tackle the unfinished business of reconciliation so we can Make Change for the benefit of all Australians.

Last year Reconciliation Australia encouraged all Australians to take action; not just in National Reconciliation Week but every week of the year. This year Reconciliation Australia are asking everyone to make change beginning with brave actions in their daily lives – where they live, work, play and socialise.
Reconciliation Australia

Hello EduGrow FB Friends, the 'EduGrow Remote School Garden Awards' program commenced in 2012 in East Arnhem Land to help celebrate ALPA's 40th Birthday and ran until 2018. It's been a while since then, so time to take the program website 'down'. If you'd like to take a last look, be inspired by remote school gardeners and their stories on the EduGrow website 'please do' by April 26 @ www.edugrow.com.au

I'll be archiving info from the site and still hold the many great entries, stories and pics from the EduGrow Awards from over the years that we can always share and draw upon going forward.

The EduGrow FB page will stay live, 'here' and we'll continue to share - and welcome your contributions! - topical stories, resources and other information along the way, to share good news, useful resources and other great news and things that remote and rural schools and communities do to support creative bush food, F&V outdoor experiential learning, growing and doing that promote healthy eating, lifestyles and local food security, foodways and fun ... grow on and be well everyone!

ALPA Gianna Gi Floyd Constable Lachlan McKenzie Jimmy Cocking Food Ladder Graham Bidstrup Phil Pettitt Tonia Gray Emily Raso Emma Lupin Naomi Lacey Tim West Jimmy Little Appreciation Group Costa Georgiadis Brenden Moore Farmer Meets Foodie Torres Bradley Webb Lenore Dembski Gemma Meier Marcelle Coakley Rayleen Brown Darwin Amsant Outback Stores Arid Edge Environmental Services East Arnhem Regional Council Paul Cleary Garma Festival Emma Lupin Food Plants International Karalyn Hingston Danny Hunter Danny Hunter Teabba - Top End Aboriginal Bush Broadcasting Association Duncan Poulson EON Foundation Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation Menzies School of Health Research Tropical Permaculture Guidebook Tom Calma Gimuy Fish Festival National Rural Health Alliance National Indigenous Times NACCHO Aboriginal Health Australia Miwatj Health Aboriginal Corporation Susan Wills

EduGrow - Growing good food, good learning and good times! EduGrow is a program that aims to encourage and support students, teachers and school communities to create engaging food gardens and outdoor learning spaces to promote good food, good learning and good times.

Keen to share this great Job Opp (two positions!) with the fabulous Youth Community Greening team at RBG NSW

What you do to look after waterways and the environment at the edge of your town, community or city MATTERS! Please listen in, enjoy and be inspired by this episode

Listen @ onmy.fm/shows/nourishing

Resilience, innovation, change communities & diverse communities of practice for change and solidarity.

All part of this weeks Ep, the second of two ‘peri-urban’ stories from Greater Sydney. Stories about people who are helping build resilience, grow food, inspire change and enable change-making communities of practice in diverse ways. Listen in to my conversation with Roger to hear about innovative applied research and ecological services at the urban edge, closeby the Blue Mountains where Farm It Forward featured last week are based.

Dr Roger Attwater is the Senior Manager, Environmental Sustainability, Office of Estate and Commercial at Western Sydney University and is passionate about his work and optimistic about what can and is being done to build resilience and sustain healthy ecosystems and communities at the edge of our cities where climate impacts and development pressures meet.

Sydney’s Hawkesbury Nepean diverse peri-urban region has been at the receiving end of successive extreme events – drought, bushfires and flood all within two years. It’s also home to diverse agriculture and horticulture, and a key (critical!) part of Sydney’s food bowl, and to one of Australia’s oldest agricultural colleges, now part of the Western Sydney University Hawkesbury campus.

Listen @ omny.fm/shows/nourishing

https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/environmental_sustainability/home

Don't miss this Ep - a cracker for anyone with a backyard, school yard or community space ....enjoy. Ep out on Thursday

Coming up this week, meet & hear from the lovely Manu, Sylvia & James from the fabulous Farm It Forward crew in the Blue Mountains & from Katherine, local Landcare Coordinator, with Hawkesbury-Nepean Landcare Network, who - like many of us - is keen to adapt & see this great model grow in peri-urban Sydney. From our webinar with North Sydney Council - Ep 11, it's a heartwarming, change-making gem....

Yup - it's really hard watching COP26 at present & how our 'leaders' are placing us in it all! What methane is valid and what's not?! carbon capture & storage is a furphy...... But take hope....smart Australian's in Ag & elsewhere 'get' it: we urgently need to adapt & mitigate NOW!!!

Listen in to this episode in which we discuss climate change and forecasting, learn about ENSO, the Southern Oscillation Index, El Nino, La Nina and perspectives on managing for drought, climate risk and change. * Australian and international leader in climate science and a big believer in the value of seasonal forecasting to help farmers, communities and governments plan for and manage risks associated with drought and other extreme events.

Roger works with The Centre for Climate Science, University of Southern Queensland (USQ), that’s one of the very few centres in the world that works at the interface of climate and agriculture helping producers here and internationally. He is the Founding and past Director of the Drought Resilience Adoption and Innovation for Southern Queensland and Northern NSW also at USQ. Watch this space – there are eight hubs getting underway across Australia to help rural communities tackle the tough challenges of climate adaptation …

Australia is on the brutal receiving end of climate change and we have long had the highest rainfall variability on earth and that’s set to become more extreme. So, robust, seasonal forecasting will be all the more key for farmers, communities and governments – to help plan and build toward greater resilience and for effective disaster management planning as extreme events occur within ‘months’ of each other.



The knowledge and advice that Roger, and colleagues, provide to farmers, large and small, the re-insurance industry and government stakeholders – here and internationally – is changing lives and economic futures in a changing climate. More than a pleasure. A deep privilege to speak with and learn from Roger, an eminent Australian and scientist.

* We talk …

“Flash droughts” and heat waves and relate the latest IPCC Report to here and now
How farm level, local and regional, place-based climate forecasting is key to future production
ENSO – what happens in the central Pacific Ocean drives our weather and climate
The SOI – a very useful index and forecasting tool …it told us the 2019 fire season was coming
The Murray Darling Basin has the highest variability of stream flows of any system on earth
The coffee industry – the second most traded commodity on earth, is highly vulnerable
We’re playing catch up – the State Of Play, the interface between extreme weather events at the regional level and climate change – think western Canada, USA heat bubbles and ‘domes’
How weather and climate forecasting needs to be able to drill down to the regional, sub-regional level to provide meaningful decision-making data and advice
Seasonal to multi-year forecasting is the focus, tailored to specific regions and places, on the ground – for farmers, catchment management and NRM
The CSIRO Drought Resilience Mission to reduce the economic impact of drought by 30% – will build on incredible research Australia has already to hand…
Mosaic agriculture and how climate change is influencing investment priorities
Key challenges? Include, the need to build and bring climate modelling and its interface with variability modelling into greater focus and detail
…and a whole lot more!

Professor Roger C Stone, PhD, FRMetSoc, Hon Professor in Climate Science.

University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia.

https://www.usq.edu.au/research/institutes-centres/ilse/applied-climate-science

Vice President: Commission for Weather, Climate, Water, and Related Environmental Services and Applications (SERCOM); Chair, Standing Committee on Services to Agriculture; World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), Geneva, Switzerland.


https://public.wmo.int/en/governance-reform/services-commission

https://community.wmo.int/governance/commission-membership/sercom/officers/management-group/sc-agr

Founding and past Director, Drought Resilience Adoption and Innovation Hub (Southern Queensland and Northern New South Wales), Institute for Life Sciences and the Environment, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia. https://www.usq.edu.au/research/institutes-centres/ilse/applied-climate-science


Past Director and now, Honorary Professor, Centre for Applied Climate Sciences, University of Southern Queensland

SQNNSWHub Farmers 4 Farmers Welfare Farmers for Climate Action Drought Resilience Leaders Development Program - Q & A Australian Conservation Foundation AustralianFarmers
Landcare Australia Landcare NSW NRM Regions Australia Carbon Positive Australia

It's Anti-Poverty Week - Nourishing Matters this week features the wonderful Julie Brimblecombe & her research and community based work over 20 years+ . Widely admired & much loved, Julie is a research leader & doer in the fields of remote food security & nutrition research, policy advocacy, & community led, co-designed healthy food solutions, particularly with remote communities and food stores.

I loved catching up & speaking with Julie. Our conversation is a longie but a goodie: so please listen in & enjoy hearing about good news remote community lead solutions of the HEALTHY STORiES = GOOD FOOD webinar series; that builds upon the world leading achievements to promote healthy food of the Healthy Stores 2020 project Julie has lead in conjunction with ALPA and top end communities and more.

https://omny.fm/shows/nourishing/dr-julie-brimblecombe-remote-food-security-communi

Great timing too. AMSANT's Food Summit Report was released last week: Julie and the foodstores working group & stories have contributed to that too: grow on all of you amazing people!
Bravo All.

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Short & sweet, this week's NM Ep is all about Australian CliMate - an excellent app developed for agriculture, a strategic decision making tool that's really useful for producers & for everyone and anyone who needs access to climate data and trends for planning and decision making. Listen in, download, use!

Listen in @ omny.fm/shows/nourishing

Future Farmers Network Climate Reality WeatherNation National Recovery and Resilience Agency Farmers for Climate Action NSW Bushfires Bushfires NT Climate Forecast National Rural Health Alliance National Indigenous Fire Network Doctors for the Environment Australia The Resilience Project