Farming on the Fringe

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.