Connecting Canberrans to
Healthy & Fresh Local Food
The Greens want Canberra to be a city that leads the nation in growing food locally, rather than importing it from interstate.
But at the moment, most people have to source their groceries from a supermarket duopoly that undercuts farmers and price gouges Canberrans.
The ACT Greens want to ensure local farmers have the right equipment to pool, process and distribute the food they grow so that Canberrans can buy it straight from their local shops and markets.
FOOD. HEALTH. JOBS.
Growing the food that ends up on our dinner tables locally rather than importing it from across the country is good for farmers, good for the environment and good for giving Canberrans greater choice to support local businesses.
But at the moment, the corporatisation of food production in Australia has created a food system that is vulnerable to climate change, unfair to farmers, and which sells food to Canberrans at exorbitant prices while big supermarkets rake in record profits.
THE ACT GREENS WILL:
- Establish a Food Hub for local farmers to set up a base of operations for food production and distribution
- Protect prime agricultural land so farmers have fair, long-term leases
- Provide interest free loans to empower local farmers
- Revitalise the Canberra City Farm to include an urban training centre
- Fund five full-time-equivalent primary school garden coordinators, to support school kitchen gardens
- Create new large community gardens for the suburbs