When the community food movement meets the regulators
Story by Russ Grayson about community resilience and the food we share and eat
From time to time we are called upon to defend what we hold of value. This is how Tasmania’s home and community gardens, food swaps, food charities, and community pantries spontaneously rose to oppose state government regulations that could have shut them down. It leaves us with a lesson in the effectiveness of cooperation and community resilience in food advocacy.
It starts slowly, builds momentum, and ends with a crash.
We start to hear about it in the weeks before it becomes a political issue. Those who follow such things realise what the proposed regulations mean. They put the word out through social media channels. Mainstream media picks up the story. The resistance begins.
And that’s when the cracks start to appear.
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