Farming on the Fringe

This volume offers a new perspective to debates on local food and urban sustainability presenting the long silenced voices of the small-scale farmers from the productive green fringe of Sydney's sprawling urban jungle. Providing fresh food for the city and local employment, these culturally and linguistically diverse farmers contribute not only to Sydney's globalizing demographic and cultural fabric, but also play a critical role in the city's environmental sustainability. In the battle for urban space housing development threatens to turn these farmlands into sprawling suburbia. In thinking from and with the urban 'fringe', this book moves beyond the housing versus farming debate to present a vision for urban growth that is dynamic and alive to the needs of the 21st century city. In a unique bringing together of the twin forces shaping contemporary urbanism - environmental change and global population flows - the voices from the fringe demand to be heard in the debate on future urban food sustainability.

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CHAPTER 1: SYDNEY'S 'INVISIBLE' FARMERS.- Sydney's Market Gardens: A Cultural Economy of Farming on the Fringe.- The History of CALD market gardeners in Sydney.- Re-visioning the City from the Edge: Cultural Complexity and Urban Agriculture.- Speaking from the Fringe.- Recognition: Determining the efficacy and relevance of prevailing preservation discourses.- Into the field.- Chapter Outlines.- References.- CHAPTER 2: GROWING SYDNEY.- A Vision for a Global City.- Growth as Development.- Agriculture and Cultural Complexity.- From Colonial to Global City.- Environmental and Cultural Limits to Growth.- Sprawl: The Messiness of the West.- History of 'Growth' in Sydney's Plans.- The 2005 Metropolitan Strategy.- Responses to the 2005 Strategy.- Green Zones.- A Plan for Growing Sydney (2015).- Conclusion.- References.- CHAPTER 3: LOCAL FOOD, URBAN SUSTAINABILITY AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY.- Vortex cities.- The turn to local food.- Planning for PUA.- Protecting peri-urban agriculture.-Farmland preservation.- Countryside preservation.- Voices from the field: the view of the grower.- Urban agriculture and cultural diversity.- Sydney's CALD growers.- Conclusion.- References.- CHAPTER 4: DIVERSITY-BLIND PLANNING.- Diversity and Planning.- Participation in decision-making.- Consultation for the 2005 Metropolitan Strategy.- Public Consultations.- Perspectives of CALD growers.- Perspective of Government Planners.- Towards an Intercultural Perspective.- Conclusion.- References.- CHAPTER 5: THE THINGS WE WANT TO KEEP: MIGRANT MARKET GARDENS AS SYDNEY'S HISTORY AND HERITAGE.- Protecting Farms as Heritage?.- A Historic Farming Landscape.- Bringelly Exhibition.- Other Exhibitions on Sydney's Agriculture Heritage.- Migrant Heritage in Australia.- Migrant Gardens as Heritage.- Heritage Listed Market Gardens in Sydney.- Comparison to Other Heritages.- Growers' Perspectives.- A Translocated Tradition.- A Practice to Protect?.- Type of Crops Grown.- Family Tradition.- Connection to Land.- Knowledge.- Migration and Settlement.- Farming as Migrant Employment.- Providing for the Next Generation.- A Means of Support.- A Question of Value.- Migrant Market Gardens as Heritage?.- Conclusion.- References.- CHAPTER 6: SUSTAINING SYDNEY.- Can we feed Sydney?.- Sustainability in Sydney Metropolitan Planning.- Sydney's Forgotten Farmers.- Valuing Sydney's Agriculture: Environmentally, socially and economically.- Moving Out.- Owners and Lessees.- Communities.- Part of a sustainable Sydney.- The future of Sydney farming.- Rooftop and Vertical farming: Alternative and high-tech options for production.- Green zones or green belts.- Purchase or transfer of development rights.- Agri-Business Park.- Economic Viability: a whole of food system perspective.- Help wanted.- Conclusion.- References.- CHAPTER 7: MULTIPLE URBANISMS.- Growth as Development.- Land as Livelihood.- Heritage and Sustainability.- Productive Diversity.- Key findings of the book.- Final Word.- References.