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What is dead may never die: Battling our waste habits

  • April 18, 2019
  • Ryville Ochoa
  • All YFM articles, Faces of Food

Erin Rhoads talks to us about rubbish living forever and freeing ourselves from the terrors of waste.

Spring reading

  • September 27, 2018
  • Megan Hounslow
  • All YFM articles, YFM Investigates

Spring is here so give a cheer – we’re celebrating not only the warmer weather and flowers EVERYWHERE but also…books! Because there’s no better way to spend a day than by stretching out with a book in the sunshine. So get comfortable and p... read more

What does ‘sustainable beef’ actually mean?

  • May 31, 2017
  • Ethan Gordon
  • All YFM articles, YFM Investigates

Recently, a partnership between some of Australia’s peak beef bodies has released a first ever Beef Sustainability Framework to define what sustainability means for the industry. So what did they come up with after consultation with the community, as we... read more

What does it really look like to be a young farmer in Australia?

  • February 16, 2017
  • Zo Zhou
  • All YFM articles, Faces of Food

It’s something we don’t talk about enough – who the hell is going to feed Australia in fifty years?! Maybe it’ll be a bunch of drones. For now though, it’s going to be young farmers – but they’re a tiny part of th... read more

How To (Bio)diversify Your Plate

  • January 10, 2017
  • Zo Zhou
  • All YFM articles, Living YFM, YFM Investigates

As the saying goes, you don’t want to put all your eggs in one basket. Imagine just being able to eat from the contents of that basket – eggs. Exclusively eggs. Aside from boring your tastebuds to death, the government’s official gui... read more

Voices we love (that keep us inspired)

  • December 22, 2016
  • Zo Zhou
  • All YFM articles, Faces of Food, YFM Investigates

Let’s be honest. Being in the social change and sustainability scene can sometimes be a pretty heartbreaking. Even though we focus on uplifting stuff you can do around big, often depressing issues like climate change, access to healthy food, or bi... read more

This Sydney cafe nails sustainable eating

  • November 27, 2016
  • Alysha Byrne
  • All YFM articles, Faces of Food

With a background in organic wine distribution and training at the world’s best hospitality management school, you know The Nine is bringing its A-game to sustainable dining in one of Sydney’s trendiest suburbs. This sustainable café in Sydney has f... read more

Why we need to go beyond voting with our forks, and how

  • October 17, 2016
  • Siobhan Parry
  • All YFM articles, YFM Investigates

Eating is the most profound way we affect the world. Feeding 7 billion growing bellies is harder than it looks, and it has taken a toll on our land, labour, and health. In Australia, no issue illustrates these problems better than meat eating. Australi... read more

Our Top 3 Takeaways From Wild Mushroom Foraging

  • July 21, 2016
  • Jasmine Chan
  • All YFM articles, Behind The Scenes At YFM, Melbourne

For most Aussies, late February marks the end of sunny summer days and the onset of gloomy cold days. But for fungi fanatics, late Feb to late May signals the best period of the year – mushroom foraging season! As soon as word spread of top notch co... read more

Getting Mindful about Eating Meat (after Meat Free May, Week, or Monday)

  • May 30, 2016
  • Sophie Armitage
  • All YFM articles, Beefjam, Behind The Scenes At YFM, YFM Investigates

In case you missed it, May is a Meat Free Month. August will include Meat Free Week. And of course, there are Meat Free Mondays too. Almost always, the debates about eating meat (what types, how much, health problems, environmental problems) can be ef... read more

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