(f)route, ABC OPEN & a summer road trip ahead

ABC OPEN begins a (f)route series with us!

"The (f)route project is essentially and ever growing community arts project, which combines ideas of art, agriculture, sustainability and tourism. The project encompasses a range of fruit related activities including regular outdoor community breakfast gatherings in different locations, commissioned art pieces, fruit harvesting, jam making, fruit bottling, market and festival activities, tourist mapping and cartography of fruit growers in the region." ...

Our CRUNCH mentor comes to Nowa Nowa

It was great to have our CRUNCH mentor Shankar (from Accenture) come visit us in Nowa Nowa today.  He and Neil Smith, Andrea Lane and Gary Yelen had a good chat about what the (f)route enterprise is.

It seems like it's shaping up as a community driven Travel Bureau :-) . Where a) local businesses and b) tourists are both our 'customers' - paying for the service we provide in creating, marketing and selling (f)route 'packages'  - slow art, travel, local experiences, accommodation, (f)route  breakfasts, supported walks/cyle tours, workshops, local produce ... etc.

hmmm... a (f)route brand ... that helps develop local product ... then markets the experiences that fit the (f)route ethos.

... and continues to seek funding and partners to develop the (f)route experience/product.

Something like that anyway.

SUSTAINABLE GIPPSLAND LEADERSHIP

Well. we had a fantastic 2 days at the 'Leadership for a Sustainable Gippsland' Pilot Program (on Raymond Island) . 

My take away fact? They built the power station (at Latrobe Valley) WITHOUT LIGHT SWITCHES ... so they just burn around the clock. cos no-one cares how much it costs.

The other thing I loved?  http://youtu.be/zDZFcDGpL4U

[This animate was adapted from a talk given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA's Benjamin Franklin award.
For more information on Sir Ken's work visit: http://www.sirkenrobinson.com ]