'Growing' food and community in the remote Kimberley region

Authors

Anne Jennings, The University of Notre Dame AustraliaFollow

Publication Details

Jennings, A. (2019). 'Growing' food and community in the remote Kimberley region. New Community, 17 (3), 7-12.

Abstract

Brief history of localized food production in Australia

This article commences by contributing historical evidence of localized food production in Australia, starting with Aboriginal people, on country, prior to colonization. It then moves on to food grown by colonists, then addressing the depression and world war years, concluding with activities at the end of the twentieth and the early twenty-first centuries.

Keywords

history, food production, Australia