Environmental benefits provide 'silver lining' - and social connection - during COVID-19 crisis

Kate McIlwain
Updated March 28 2020 - 3:52pm, first published 3:00pm
Enviro boost: CEO of Green Connect Kylie Flament says more people are taking up gardening or ordering food from local farms. Picture: Adam McLean.
Enviro boost: CEO of Green Connect Kylie Flament says more people are taking up gardening or ordering food from local farms. Picture: Adam McLean.

As panic buying continues to create a shortage of supplies in major supermarkets and society becomes increasingly locked-down, a growing number of Illawarra residents have been looking for ways to become more self-sufficient.

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Kate McIlwain

Kate McIlwain

Journalist

For more than a decade, I've helped the Illawarra Mercury set the news agenda across the region. Currently I'm the paper's health reporter - covering the stories of Illawarra workers and residents in the wake of a global pandemic and at a time where our health systems are stretched to the limit.

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