Cafes ending food waste
Eight NSW cafes ending food waste.
Here’s the how, why and where of eight cafes which are ending food waste. The cafes are in the City of Sydney (Chippendale), country towns and cities of Bathurst, Orange and Nundle. They are:
Cafe Giulia, Chippendale
101Kissa Cafe, Chippendale
Knox Street Bar, Chippendale
Church Block Cafe, Eglinton, Bathurst
Tremains Mill Bathurst, Bathurst
Nile Street Cafe, Orange
Anything Grows Cafe, Orange
Goldmine Guesthouse, Nundle
Aaah, that wonderful gardening feeling we get after installing a coolseat! Perry Shields here looks as though he has that feeling after installing coolseats outside Cafe Giulia.
Thank you all, the cafes and NSW EPA
Thank you to each cafe for trialling coolseats, and thank you to the NSW EPA #lovefoodhatewastensw partnership for providing funding, guidance and support for this project to end cafe food waste in NSW.
Other projects and their partners, and some of those working to end food waste and who are also able to implement initiatives with the support of the NSW EPA are here. One partner listed there is Cornersmith Cafe, one of my favourite cafes. I recommend their ‘how to cook’ videos, and their wonderful cook book ‘Use it all’ is prominent in my kitchen with many well-thumbed pages. It has so many simple ideas for cooking and not wasting off-cuts, left-overs, and has such wide-ranging ideas that clearly show there is no such thing as waste, just a failure of imagination. (Nature wastes nothing.)
Thank you, too, to the coolseats team: John Fry, Bjorn Godwin, Elina Godwin, Reilly O'Byrne-Inglis and the many others who have got on the end of a shovel, put their laptop to work, used a camera, planted a plant, and shared your wonderful energy with us. Special mention to the helpful carpenter, Blair Stapley, who made key design improvements, and to Beatrice Ludwig who made this website. We’ll keep improving and growing the project, the coolseats, and we’re proud to show our respect to the landscapes upon which we depend for our being.
When we garden, we grow something in ourselves and with those we garden with. May the worms be with us!