If you’ve found yourself baulking at the hefty cost of veggies this year, spare a thought for our fellow Aussies living in remote communities. Eye-watering fresh produce prices are their daily norm, and often the stuff is already weeks old and wilted; hardly appetising, let alone worth the exorbitant price.
The recent string of global calamities – war, a pandemic, floods – have drawn into perspective the instability of our industrialised food system, which has always disadvantaged some people and is now affecting many. In the wake of shockingly empty supermarket shelves and lettuce too expensive to bother buying, many are asking: what’s a better alternative?
The emerging answer is quite simple, really, the one that has always been central to human life: localisation. Of course, such a tangled food system, with its
