The Frugivore Diet

Moving to Australia. Need Help!!!!!

2016-01-10T20:37:32.000Z

Hello everyone,

As some of you may know, I am an author of the book The Interconnectedness of Life (and many more books in the future), filmmaker and vegan educator. I have a youtube channel with almost 2.5+ million views and 8000 subscribers and many websites. I've been vegan since 2009 and eat almost entirely raw (fruit mostly) for several years, eating cooked vegan on occasion.

I grew up and currently live in Toronto, Canada for the past 33 years, but I've always wanted to live somewhere tropical, and Australia was always my dream. I am planning and doing research on how it is possible to move to Australia from Canada, and it is pretty hard due to all the idiotic government policies, etc., which I believe is due to capitalist/herding society.

I earn a little from the work I do (writing, YouTube, donations websites, etc.), but I can survive on minimal as my lifestyle is very minimalistic. I am seeking connections in Australia with vegans and fruitarians (more ethical/spiritual minded people) who I can live with who can get me into Australia.

I got a lot of tips and information from a few people and looking more or less at the area of Cairns or Mareeba, but anywhere Northern Australia where it is warm all year round (17+c) is preferable. My dream is to live in Australia. Therefore, I am willing to live just about anywhere, temporarily, to get me in. Now I know Australia is not for everyone, and there are always pros and cons to living in any country, but my heart tells me I need to move there, I need a change from the crummy weather here in Canada.

I would appreciate anyone assisting in getting me into Australia and living there. Any connections or information would be much appreciated.

Best way to contact me is by email at bookings@michaellanfield.com or WowApp (which is similar to Skype and free) https://www.wowapp.com/w/michaellanfield/Michael-Lanfield

Thank you.

raw food center / intentional community australia

2015-09-24T00:51:10.000Z

We are living on a large property south of murwillumbah nsw growing hundreds and fruit trees and veggeis for local market, I have been eating a raw food diet for about 10 years and would like to turn this space into a raw food community to share with other raw food eaters, let me know if you or know of others that share a similar idea, guess i would like to have others share an interest in growing food and living sustainably, looking forward to hearing from interested folk jamescreagh@hotmail.com

help plz

2015-08-28T12:05:30.000Z

hey guys plz i need help and its being annoying me for the past few months okay

i finish recovering from my eating disorder/anorexia in november, a during that time i was force to be pescetarianism until i was better so on november 10th 2014 i became vegan what i wanted to be for a long time but couldn't coz of my 2 years of that.

for the last 6 months i want to be a high car low fat vegan, but my parents and even my dietician would not alowed me and here are some of my parents reason
1. carb makes you fat
2.sugar makes you fat
3. all those other people that do that must be doing exercise 24/7
4. we by the food wait till you old enough to get your own place
5. it cost lot of money
6. you being brainwashed
7. do what your dietician say she's the expert she study in these for over 12 years

okay 1st, yeah i did gain weight coz i try it for a month before my parents made m stop. i do cardio 5 days a week and weight training 6 days a week, im already vegan why cant i be high carb low fat vegan. even my dietician would allow me to do that. im 16 150cm (short for my age haha-4.9 foot) 55 kg.

so my question is how can i get my parents and my dietician for letting me be a high carb low fat vegan thx you for your time

Inspiration for Cool Project

2014-05-16T02:31:17.000Z

Whilst perusing the library, I read Food Australia!

This article about saffron is a marvelous idea to start acclimating your bulbs today!!

Australia needs more growers, and someone who is an expertise in this field, is making bang!

http://foodaust.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Final_Word_P42.pdf

801010 Share Accom Available North Stradbroke Island

2014-02-07T00:47:32.000Z

ROOM AVAILABLE POINT LOOKOUT
Large bright airy ROOM in treetop house AVAILABLE at our fruitfull family island paradise home at Point Lookout, North Stradbroke Island. If you or you know anyone who may like some quiet, peaceful, health inspired space to live long or short term please facebook msg me. Room will be available from mid to end feb and is $120wk, this inc elect. Room can be furnished and has own ensuite. Vegearian/vegan/or raw vegan only. Must like children, girls age 1 and 6yrs. Bliss and bananas x

HCRV in Newcastle

2014-02-01T01:51:55.000Z

Hey Everyone

I tried to go HCRV last year and lasted a few weeks before falling off the bandwagon. Anyway, really keen to give it a proper go and a second chance.

If anyone is looking for a 30 day challenge buddy that would be awesome as well.

Also, for those who live in Newcastle, where do you guys find is the cheapest for bulk fruit and veggies?

Thanks

Josh

Where to buy bulk dates

2013-11-09T07:52:13.000Z

Hi everyone,

Where do you all get your dates in bulk from? I am local to Brisbane. My last cases were bought from Woolies when they had a massive sale. Unfortunately I am almost out :( Any suggestions? I am not to keen to pay over $20 a kg for them unless they are organic.

Peace,

HCRV housemate wanted to share in Northcote, Melbourne area from January 2014.

2013-10-22T22:46:25.000Z

Hi there,Im a HCRV looking for a housemate to share a house in the Northcote area from January 10th, 2014.House will be selected being close to organic grocer (Terra Madre/Joe's Organic), public transport and backyard space to grow own veggies.If you are interested please message, post or email (spaps@me.com) and we can arrange a meet up.Peace,Dan.

Panama Race 4 hits the banana crops in the Northern Territory

2013-08-29T07:40:26.000Z

Disease give bananas an 'uncertain future'

ABC Rural

By Marty McCarthy

PHOTO: Bananas harvested near Tully in north Queensland. (Marty McCarthy)

PHOTO: Panama Race 4 has been confirmed in bananas in the Northern Territory but it is yet to appear on Australia's east coast. (Brian Cassey)

The banana is the world's fourth most popular fruit but the global reliance on the Cavendish variety is giving the fruit an uncertain future.

Cavendish bananas account for 99 percent of all the $13 billion worth of bananas exported annually around the world.

Closer to home, they make up more than 90 percent of bananas grown in Australia.

Dan Koeppel is the author of 'The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World'.

He told the BBC Food Programme that the commercialisation of the Cavendish is responsible for the variety's global appeal.

However he says it's also causing its demise.

"Most bananas don't have seeds, you just cut a piece of a banana tree off and stick it in the ground and you have another banana tree,” he said.

"So every banana is basically a genetic clone of every other one.

"Because every banana is an identical twin they're susceptible to the same diseases.

"When diseases hit they hit hard and they destroy banana plantations around the world."

An example of this is the recent spread of the fungal disease known as Panama Tropical Race Disease, which causes banana trees to collapse before they can even produce fruit.

Mr Koeppel says the outbreak of a strain of Panama Disease affecting the Cavendish variety (Tropical Race 4) in Asia in the 1990s demonstrates how worrying the situation is.

"When it was found in Malaysia it took just 4 years before every Cavendish plantation in the country was wiped out," he said.

"This disease is so virulent that if I took a speck of dirt from an infected plantation and had it on the bottom of my shoe then took a plane from the Philippines to Costa Rica and stepped on a plantation it would spread.

"It's that powerful."

When diseases hit they hit hard and they destroy banana plantations around the world.
Dan Koeppel, author of 'The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World'.

In the late 1990s Panama Disease made its way to Australia and destroyed the Cavendish banana growing industry in the Northern Territory.

The fear remains that one day the disease will spread to north Queensland, where 80 percent of Australia's bananas are grown.

Vicky Kippin O'Connor is a banana grower near Innisfail in north Queensland and the former director of the Australian Banana Growers Council.

"Once Panama comes in there's nothing we can do to stop it," she said.

"Despite every effort to stop the movement of soil and plant material between farms the disease could not be stopped [in the Northern Territory].

"If we got Panama Tropical Race 4 into the Cavendish plantations of north Queensland it would gradually destroy those banana farms."

Despite the distance, Vicky says it's not impossible the disease could travel from the Northern Territory to north Queensland.

"Australia has vast distances and we're used to travelling," she said.

"Machinery travels from the Northern Territory down to Queensland quite frequently.

"It wouldn't be unusual to find heavy machinery that had worked in north Queensland going to the Northern Territory or vice versa carrying affected soil."

Vicky knows the concerns of Panama Disease all too well because in 2011 her farm was crippled by a different strain of the virus.

Panama Tropical Race 1 affects ducasse bananas, which until 2011 was Vicky's preferred crop.

"After Cyclone Yasi we had lots of rain and the plants started to show signs of disease," she said.

"I have no idea [how it got here] but this is the problem with soil borne fungal diseases.

"You just don't know who's carrying them.

"It can come in on shoes, it can blow in or it travels in water."

It’s not often we find an outbreak of disease in Australia or on a farm that DPI can access. Normally they have to do their trials overseas in Indonesia or Papua New Guinea.
Vicky Kippin O'Connor, banana grower near Innisfail

Vicky now makes her money off growing Cavendish bananas, which are not affected by this strain of Panama Disease found in her soil.

Furthermore, Vicky is now making the most of her situation by trying to grow bananas in soil affected by the devastating fungal disease.

"I made the land available to Queensland DPI so they could conduct these trials," she said.

“It’s not often we find an outbreak of disease in Australia or on a farm that DPI can access.

“Normally they have to do their trials overseas in Indonesia or Papua New Guinea.”

Vicky says the trials haven’t yet helped her return her Ducasse operations to commercial levels, but there are positive signs.

"We did find that there was a 20 percent increase where we left a diversify of plants in the rows and around the banana plants," she said.

However Vicky says the Ducasse bananas were not of an edible quality.

"The problem is the tree collapses before the banana bunch has time to grow to maturity," she said.

Vicky says that at the moment, all growers can do is plant different varieties of banana trees if their soil does contain strains of the disease.

For example, because the strain of Panama on Vicky's farm only affects Ducasse bananas, she can no longer grow this variety.

However, Vicky can still grow the Cavendish.

In contrast, although farmers in the Northern Territory can’t grow the Cavendish, they can still grow ducasses and lady fingers.

Vicky says there is a global focus to combat panama disease.

"We even have some plants from Cuba at the moment because the Cubans are able to do vast trials," she said.

"They think they've bred a plant that has some tolerance.

Vicky says understanding how the different strains of panama disease affect different varieties of banana plants is the answer to the mystery.

“If we could find out what the difference is maybe we could infuse the difference in ducasse bananas,” she said.

To hear more listen to the BBC's 'The Banana - Fascinating History, Uncertain Future'.

(This information has been obtained via ABC Rural: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-29/feature-banana/4922208

Maccas backlash in regional vic!

2013-07-29T11:46:41.000Z

hey all,

check this out

http://www.change.org/burgeroff?utm_source=action_alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=29851&alert_id=GmjYLOyqvS_DCYtRlbPYq

Accomodation and 80/10/10ers in Brisbane?

2013-03-07T23:12:31.000Z

Does anyone have a room we could rent in the short term till we get jobs etc? (Or the long term if we get on and it's cool at your place)Hi me and my fiancé are now in BrisbaneWe are from New Zealand, both vegan looking for jobs.It would be great to stay with like minded people! Also to meet other 80/10/10 ers who can show me the fruit shops and maybe the parks with the pull up bars and a good gym.Also to be able to put my banana skins in a compost!Anyone?Please and thank youNeihana and Sarah

Woodstock 2013!

2013-01-10T09:04:43.000Z

Is there anyone thinking of going to the 2013 woodstock fruit festival? got some quotes on airline tickets today for august and i got $1272 return which was cheaper than i thought. let me know if your thinking of going so we can travel together(me and one friend are going, so far)

checkin' out local mangos!:)

2012-12-03T08:38:00.000Z

anyone checkin out those local mango trees? i see them everywhere here(just outside brisbane) and im keen to see that green turn yellow!! so if your mangos disappear...im sorry but couldn't help it :)

811 baby in Bundaberg

2012-10-11T09:23:02.000Z

Hello

I live in Estonia, am a raw food chef and tantra courses translator. I have traveled all over Europe and can speak estonia, english, spanish and a little russian and finnish. I have been on 811 since last november and i'm loving it. But now i really need some fellow 811 people advice and help. Hope you find the time to share maybe your own expirience :)

My boyfriend, is moving to Bundaberg in 18 november, to work for some years. We have been together for 4 years and really happy. I was planning to follow him in december or january.

Yesterday I found out that fruit has a lot on life power and i'm pregnant :) I'm haveing a 811 baby :D I really happy about it but at same time a bit confused. Would i be ok to give birth in Australia? If a wanna a water birth, yoga, good fruit and so, can you give me some suggestions :)

Sunshine, love and seasonal fruit!

Kaija

meet up &/or flat mates in Newcastle, NSW?!

2012-06-06T14:24:38.000Z

Hello guys,

I am so glad to have found this forum! I am going to move to Newcastle, NSW in two weeks time and I am looking for a shared accommodation and/or nice people to meet up with.

I am currently living in Cologne, Germany and it's a wonderful city for vegans. We have vegan restaurants, cafés, bars/bistros, big organic vegan-friendly supermarkets, local organic farmer's markets, and juice bars, of course. I am a bit concerned about being able to keep up my lifestyle in down under and would be stoked to get to know fellow vegans/811 fellas who can give me good advice.

All the best to you, any tips welcome!

CU, Sam xx

Visiting Australia in May

2012-04-17T18:29:54.000Z

Hello lovley Aussies,

I will be visiting your beautiful country for 3 weeks in May. 2 weeks working 1 week to do whatever I want.. I will be in Brisbane, sydney, and Melbourne. asking for any clever ideas as to what I should explore while there? I love to surf and dont like tourist type things. Should I stay in melbourne or Sydney for the last week? Also where should I stay any hostel/ surf camp? and where can I get the best fruit in sydney? Any ideas will help me immensely

THANKS!

-Trent

Achachas! Have you tried them yet?

2012-02-17T06:35:45.000Z

earth frequency festival QLD

2012-01-22T22:15:02.000Z

Hi,

Is anyone heading to the earth frequency festival in febuary?

Chemical free coconuts

2011-11-10T04:25:39.000Z

Hello, fellow Aussie 810ers, just wondering if its possible to get fresh coconuts in Australia, I know there is a guy in QLD who sells the but you have to purchase 200 at a time. I only have available what Coles and Safeway sell, they are all from thailand, and I'm sure are treated with formaldehyde.Youd probably choke if you knew what was sprayed on your fruit/veg in your local supermarket.Is it better to do without?

Regards

Brett

Brisbane Fruitbats

2011-09-24T05:14:42.000Z

Hey guys and girls,

I have created a Brissy group called Brisbane Fruitbats for those who wish to connect in the greatest capital city of Oz!

Join up and we'll have a picnic in the sun soon. I know of a frozen durian supplier.

Those transitioning most welcome (like myself).

Luke

Mail order fruit in Oz?

2011-08-27T01:55:27.000Z

Hi :)

Just curious if anyone has recommendations for online retailers in Australia, preferably organic?

I live right down the bottom of Western Australia, so Perth etc or even South Australian retailers are the preference freight wise.

To make this diet/lifestyle work well I will need to source good produce (and a variety of) at decent prices, fairly sure that I am going to struggle to do that locally.

Thank you :)

people living around Brisbane/ Byron Bay

2011-07-18T08:18:35.000Z

how many people on here live in Brisbane? how many in Byron Bay? i am thinking of moving to QLD next year and would love to make friends with others living in this area :)

Win a Vitamix

2011-06-02T02:41:14.000Z

Hello Aussies.

Here is comp where you can win a Vitamix...

http://www.teresacutter.com/2011/05/win-a-vitamix-competition-entry-details/

1st prize = Vitamix 5200.

2nd prize = an '80/20 cookbook'. Not quite the same as '80-10-10', but it does add up to the same ;)

Hope ya win it if I don't :)

Carly

Moving to the ACT - Need some Raw Vegan Friends

2011-05-08T07:48:15.000Z

Hi,

I'm a Jamaican living in Thailand, and moving to Australia.

(yes, it confuses me too).

I'm just been granted permanent residency in Australia and am headed to Canberra, my new home. Will be in desperate need of new friends who know where to get all the good fruit.

I arrive in Canberra on Friday May 13.

Would love to meet up.

Lisa

Housemate wanted in Yeppoon!

2011-04-29T08:48:43.000Z

Beautiful beaches a 10 min jog away!

If you are looking for work, I can get you a job at the pineapple-packing shed where I work.

The weather is gorgeous now!

For fruit, there is the usual Woolworth's, Coles, Foodworks, Spar, 1fruit shop, a health-food store, and a weekly Saturday morning farmer's market, and as well as various monthly Sunday markets.

I have been living here for 3 weeks and absolutely love it!

Free star fruit (carambola) in New Farm

2011-04-22T04:19:10.000Z

I need help harvesting a fully loaded star fruit tree!

I have the owner's permission.

best Places to live long-term in Australia?

2011-01-31T23:20:58.000Z

With good selection of tropical fruit, sunny weather, wwoof,work exchanges? What's required if staying 3-6 months besides visa and passport?