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Date
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Description
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| December 2011 |
Large increase in plant content in our Gardener subscriber site on 150 vegetables, herbs and grains with more photographs per crop, detailed descriptive content on how to grow, how to harvest and how to eat each crop, with nutritional information. Adds to existing extensive and easily searchable content on each plant including climate information. |
| November 2011 |
Cityfood Growers releases a corporate and not for profit package enabling larger corporates to access a range of services and benefits around food gardening. |
| November 2011 |
Cityfood Growers gets on the short list of 60 out of of 900 applicants for its Big Idea grant bid |
| October 2011 |
Innovative Cityfood Growers and Oxfam fund raising initiative for the East African food crisis |
| September 2011 |
Media story in Australia national CSIRO magazine called Ecos about Cityfood Growers - Urban Agriculture - Its a veggie roots movement |
| September 2011 |
Grant application to the Big Idea grant of QLD Government, submitted by Cityfood Growers for the Online trading platform for locally grown food |
| September 2011 |
2 day Biodynamic gardening course run by Peter Kearney in Brisbane, course fully booked for spring gardening |
| September 2011 |
Release 4 of our web site and the second for 2011 with more plant content and new Gardener subscriber instructional kit |
| September 2011 |
Media story in Tasmania Farmer newspaper about Cityfood Growers and how are our site uniquely helps hobby farmers work with growing Australian native food plants |
| September 2011 |
National media story on ABC Environment Online about the sustainability of food production in cities, with contribution from Cityfood Growers |
| August 2011 |
Peter Kearney of Cityfood Growers, as small scale organic food grower in a feature story on the Weekend Courier Mail in QLD |
| August 2011 |
Media story in EcoVoice on the Cityfood Growers food gardening educational project with GoodStart, the largest early childhood centre provider in Australia |
| July 2011 |
Cityfood Growers commences relationship with 3rdDegree who are providing strategic direction with business strategies and promotion of our Gardener subscription to the green market. |
| July 2011 |
Contract with GoodStart Childcare to develop and implement a food gardening knowledge platform across their 670 services in Australia |
| June 2011 |
Cityfood Growers awarded as a finalist in in the small business category of the Sustainability Awards for the Queensland Government. |
| June 2011 |
Release 4 of our web site, with more features and 300 food crops. |
| May 2011 |
Peter Kearney presented at C&K conference to 120 teachers on food gardening. |
| March 2011 |
Food gardening knowledge platform released to 400 C&K early childhood services |
| March 2011 |
Peter Kearney asked to be a presenter at the annual conference for the Biodynamic Association of Australia, held from the 9-11th April, 2011 at Coolongatta, QLD |
| January 2011 |
Works commence on new release 1 - 2011 for the web site incorporating Australian native food crops, more fruit and vegetable crops and other marketing features. |
| October 2010 |
Commencement of participation as a key industry partner in a major research project titled "Eat, Cook and Grow" by Queensland University of Technology, which focuses on using the latest in online technology to engage the public in positive social change around healthy eating, cooking and growing. |
| September 2010 |
Partnership arrangement established with Global Gardening of the UK to release a UK version of the web site. |
| August 2010 |
Article written about the unique features of our web site and in particular, the fruit tree functionality, by Australia's largest organic gardening magazine, Organic Gardener. |
| May 2010 |
Presentation at C & K preschooling state conference in Brisbane on our organisation supporting implementation of food gardens in pre-schools. |
| April 2010 |
Interview with Peter Kearney on Brisbane radio station 4ZZZ about our business and biodynamic gardening |
| April 2010 |
Release 3 of our web site incorporating fruit tree content and new site features and subscriber structure. |
| December 2009 |
Peter Kearney commences as author of instructional articles on biodynamic gardening in an Australian national organic magazine, Clean Food Organic |
| September 2009 |
Peter Kearney does community talk at the Hilbrook school sustainability day on Neighbourhood food gardening |
| June 2009 |
Release 2 of our web site incorporating many new site features, content and localisation for Australia, New Zealand and USA |
| June 2009 |
Relationship established with Angelic Organics in Illinois, USA to assist with USA release of web site |
| May 2009 |
Venture invited as one of four key businesses in the Brisbane area for a Local food transition event hosted by Brisbane City Council |
| March 2009 |
Peter Kearney commences gardening column in National magazine in Australia titled Nova |
| March 2009 |
Peter Kearney participated in an intensive training on Biodynamics at the global base of Biodynamics in Switzerland |
| November 2008 |
Peter Kearney commences Biodynamic and organic gardening workshop series |
| October 2008 |
Presented the multi- user access features of the web site at forum of high school and tertiary agriculture/gardening teachers for South East Queensland. The Fery Grove High School accees was referred to as a pilot. |
| September 2008 |
150 students of Ferny Grove High school agriculture course established as users of the web site. Instructional presentation to teachers and students. Interview with Brisbane radio 4BC on introducing school students to food gardening. |
| August 2008 |
Series of food gardening workshops to commence in
Samford, Queensland on the 23 August 2008. |
| July 2008 |
Story in the New Zealand Weekend Gardener Magazine, issue 247, titled "New Aussie organics web site". |
| July 2008 |
Presentation of the web site to the Caboolture Permaculture Group at the CREC community centre in
Burpengary, Queensland. |
| July 2008 |
North West News,
Brisbane – story on web site titled “Online tools to grow organic food”. |
| July 2008 |
Green Magazine, Sustainable Architecture and Landscape Design, story on release of the web site within “Gardening advice”. |
| June 2008 |
Brisbane City Council funds community gardens in the BCC region with web site memberships, as part of its "Food in the City" initiative. |
| May 2008 |
Peter Kearney chosen as panel member at the Brisbane Localisation Conference on the subject of localising food production. |
| April 2008 |
Release 1 of www.cityfoodgrowers.com.au |
