2012 Planning Meeting
Transition North shore held its 2012 planning meeting on 12/2/12. We had 6 people in attendance (which is a record for us) with two apologies due to illness or last minute emergencies.
After a fantastic local food lunch (almost everything on the table was home grown or sourced within the Hornsby area), we got down to business and set our agenda for 2012.
Our most pressing issue is the loss of food production to development in the rural parts of Hornsby shire so our focus in 2012 will be on local growers. In particular connecting local growers with local consumers so growers can get a fair price for their produce and consumers can pay a fair price for their fruit and veg.
Many ideas were put forward (in no particular order) -
- Local growers markets in Hornsby
- Local "food map" possibly ion conjunction with the Hawksbury farm trail
- Galston Growers Co-Op
- Online sales and delivery of local food
- Food tours
These will be researched further and presented at our next meeting in March.
Thanks all who attended, brought fantastic food to share and most importantly, shared their ideas as well.
Transition Towns in our own
Transition Towns in our own Community - First we need people who share our vision:
To create inspiring initiatives to tackle environmental and social issues in our community which, in the past, have been a scattered endeavour and not fully embraced by our community.
We need to find creative and sustainable solutions to sustain, strengthen, and diversify our local economies coupled with the resolve to efficiently use our Earths valuable resources in these uncertain times we live.
We need to aim toward a confident and bright future and offer a renewed sense of life designed with practical solutions, which embrace bold and unique approaches full of inspiration, fun and creativity.
Transition times are a time for processes and solutions that come directly from our own local community to tackle peak oil, climate change, environmental and financial pressures that face us all.
Families and communities can gain huge pleasure and satisfaction from caring about the food we eat and sourcing it locally. We need to act locally to nourish our selves and build community resilience and creativity.
Its about joining and connecting people and community, a time to join together to be a voice to create and explore how we share, feed, house, power and nurture our environment and our communities. It is a time of transition in the words of Rob Hopkins :
“If we wait for governments it will be too little too late. If we act as individuals it will be too little, if we act as communities it might just be enough.” Rob Hopkins
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