May 232016
 
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Cityfood Growers provides knowledge and services to support the transformation of our food system to being more local and organic. Our business empowers people living in and around cities to be more productive at growing their own food.
We are located in Brisbane, Australia and deliver our services locally, nationally and for a growing list of countries. Our Organic Gardener Subscriber web site is localised to any town or city of Australia, the USA, New Zealand and the UK, with other countries to come. The site provides a massive resource of integrated content for food gardeners using organic methods. Our web site is recognised as a leading use of new technology to support food gardening and has an ever evolving pathway of new features to keep at it at the forefront of supporting our large and growing subscriber base.
Our consultancy services in urban food growing combine a mixture of hands-on education, growing space planning to urban agriculture planning and implementation strategy for communities and large organisations such as major property developers. Supporting the emergence of financially sustainable urban farming is one of our core goals.
The business commenced in 2006 and the first release of our web site was in mid 2008. The company was founded by Peter Kearney, an experienced organic and biodynamic gardener, educator and technologist. The business has a small team with passion and knowledge in organic food growing and a growing set of relationships with the movers and shakers of urban agriculture around the world.

http://cityfoodgrowers.com.au/

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