Community links

Local Organic Links

Hunter Organic Growers Society
W Weldon (President)
PO BOX 822
Hamilton NSW 2303
Email: earthaven2004@yahoo.com.au
Hunter Biodynamic Group Inc
39A Duns Creek Rd
Duns Creek NSW 2321
Email: hmccall@onaustralia.com.au
Sustenance
Food Not Bombs
Hunter Organic Foods
88 Mitchell St, Merewether
Phone number 4963-6550
Natural Tucker
108 Darby Street Cooks Hill
phone number 4929 1229

Hunter Advocate
The Hunter Advocate is published by a grassroots not-for-profit community association in the Lower Hunter. It is a local newspaper presenting news, views and issues from the community of the Lower Hunter region in Australia.
http://www.hunteradvocate.com.au/
Octapod
Newcastle based independent arts and new media organization
http://www.octapod.org/
The Wilderness Society
The Newcastle Campaign Centre is hard at work protecting our wonderful natural world in a range of campaigns at a local, state and national level. Anyone who is interesting in lending a hand is welcome to come in and get involved.
http://www.wilderness.org.au/regions/nsw/newcastle/
Rising Tide Australia
Newcastle based Grassroots climate action group
http://risingtide.org.au/
Hunter Community Environment Centre
http://www.hcec.org.au/
enviro-geek / e-geek
Cooperative that offers reduced-rate or free web and computer services, support, and technical education to not-for-profit community, social justice, and environment focused organisations. The enviro-geek web site is a place for like-minded geeks to organise and share knowledge. The e-geek web site is for the commercial side of the cooperative and offer home and small office computer and web services for the Newcastle region, including web design, computer sales and repair and networking.
http://enviro-geek.net
http://e-geek.com.au

Sydney Organic Buyers Group
A not-for-profit community organisation that supplies organic food at reasonable prices
http://groups.msn.com/SydneyOrganicBuyersGroup
Organic Federation of Australia
http://www.ofa.org.au/
Food First
Institute of Food and Development Policy
http://www.foodfirst.org/
Australian Organic Institute
http://www.organicsaustralia.org.au/
Biodynamic Agriculture Australia
A not-for-profit association that started in 1989 to promote the practice and understanding of the Biodynamic system of Agriculture. They hold Workshops and field days on a local and national level, for beginners and specific groups. And give advice on Biodynamic preparations, and guidelines on how to use and manufacture them.
http://www.biodynamics.net.au/
Acres Australia
Australia's national newspaper of sustainable agriculture
http://www.acresaustralia.com.au/
Australian Community Foods
A directory for finding local food networks, including farmers markets, community gardens and seed saver groups.
http://communityfoods.com.au
Seed savers network
http://www.seedsavers.net/
Organic Choice
Organic directory
http://www.organicchoice.com.au/

Greenpeace True Food Network
gives information about genetically modified food and Greenpeace campaigns
http://www.greenpeace.org.au/truefood/index2.html
Friends of the Earth Australia
http://www.foe.org.au/
Australian Consumers Association
http://www.choice.com.au/
Gene ethics network
http://www.geneethics.org/
The Good Life bookclub
great site for alternative living books and other resources
http://goodlifebookclub.com/catalog/index.php
Slow Food network
An international association that promotes food and wine culture, but also defends food and agricultural biodiversity worldwide.
The Slow Food movement opposes the standardisation of taste, defends the need for consumer information, protects cultural identities tied to food and gastronomic traditions, safeguards foods and cultivation and processing techniques inherited from tradition and defend domestic and wild animal and vegetable species.
http://www.slowfood.com
The International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements
An international, grassroots-based federation, comprised of 730 organisations in 103 countries. IFOAM actively participates in international agricultural and environmental negotiations with the United Nations and multilateral institutions to further the interests of the organic agricultural movement worldwide. IFOAM is uniquely recognized for taking on this important role.
http://www.ifoam.org