The magic of social mycelium
This is our last full week of deliveries for 2018 (yes, we’re delivering on Christmas Eve Monday). As we wind up for the year and take our usual two week break (our first 2019 delivery is on Monday January 7th) I want to share with you a little of the impact you’ve helped make this year.
In 2018 five thousand five hundred and sixty of you shopped at Fair Food and in turn we channelled $2.6 million to buy organic, biodynamic and regenerative produce and groceries from one hundred and eighteen farms, grocery makers and distributors.
These are the farms and small businesses, many of whom are start-ups, who with the help of their families and employees, have fed us this year….
Barambah Organics
Bbbyo
Bbwalkon
Bee Sustainable
Beenak Farm Kiwifruit
Biodynamic Marketing
Belyhealth
Berringa Honey
Bimbimbi Holdings
Biobag
Biome Living
Bite Me Fine Foods
Black Chicken Remedies Black Chicken Remedies
Blackwarry Farm
Blue Pumpkin
Blue Sky Organics
J&M Alexandra
Bod Conscious
Botanical Cuisine
Broth Of Life
Calendar Cheese
Cello Bags
Central Victoria Honey
CERES Microgreens
Cockatoo Grove
Cocoa Rhapsody
Daylesford & Hepburn Mineral Springs Co.
Day’s Walk Farm
Dench Bakers
Der Partisan
E&A Salce
Ecofarms
Elmore Compost & Organics
Emmeline Park
Encore Tissue
Ethique Limited
Feel Good Foods
First Ray
Foothill Organic
Frank Valente
Gabe & Nick Dellios
Georgia Savage
Gfprecinct
Green Gully Organics
Green St Kitchen
Greenacres Biodynamics
Gsk Westralia
Happygreen
Healthybake
Honey Lane Garden (CERES)
Joe’s Market Garden (CERES)
Kadac
KAS Organics
Kilmorack Farm
King Oyster Mushrooms
La Gousse Farm
La Madre Bakery
Larrykin Dog Treats
Lil Bit Better
Loafer Bread
Louis Melbourne
Loving Earth
Madelaine’s Eggs
Mark Foletta
Melba Fresh Organics
Merri Table (CERES)
Michelle Morstead
Miellerie Unheated Honey
Mount Zero Olives
Mountain Bread Mountain Bread
Naturally On High
Netti
Nourish Foods
Oliana Foods
Onya Think Reusable
Organic Formulations
Ethical Dairy
Organic Growers Group
Organic Needs
P & H Kamvissis
Paleo Pure
PhD
Planet Health
Pud For All Seasons
Pure Organic Harvest
Ratio Cocoa Roasters
Real Free Range Eggs
Reed
Reedy Grown Produce
Rejuve Health Products
Remedy Kombucha
Resparkle
Return 2 Health
Richard Law
Schulz Organic Farms
Segafredo Zanetti
Serenitea Infusions
Skyline Organics
Smalt
Somerset Heritage
Soulfresh
Spiral Foods
Steadysticks
Stephen Routledge & Jennifer Indian
Sugarloaf Produce
Sunzest
The Fermentary
The Little Vegie Patch
The Practical Beekeeper
The Whole Food Kitchen
Tradewinds Tea & Coffee
Trialia Foods
Unique Health Products
Wahrina
Warburton Wellbeing
Wattle Organic Farms
Wilhelma Farm
Yarra Organics
Fair Food seeks to have at least a third of our workforce made up of people who have come to Australia as asylum seekers or new migrants. This past year out of the fifty-five people you helped employ at Fair Food, nineteen of our colleagues have come to Australia as asylum seekers or recent migrants.
By buying your groceries over the last 12 months with Fair Food you have helped generate over $60,000, supporting CERES to deliver hands-on sustainability education to over 300,000 Victorian school children at CERES environment park and in their own schools.
And finally I want to give thanks to the seventy-five Food Hosts all over Melbourne who share their verandas, front porches, sheds, carports, businesses and schools each week for the rest of us to collect our groceries from.
This simple act of generosity works like strands of social mycelium; creating new connections between us, opening up the possibility for new ways to cooperate and share that will go on to spawn new and surprising fruit.
So thank you for a great year and for making all this possible
Chris
Farmer Christmas at Joe’s Market Garden
If the thought of having to go to Northlands this week has got you in the foetal position then get down the Merri Creek this Saturday morning to Farmer Christmas at Joe’s Market Garden (Edna Grove, Coburg).
Featuring talented local Merri Creek crafts people and farmers and yes Farmer Christmas herself doing family pics on her John Deere tidings of comfort and joy tractor – this will be the most unNorthlands environment you will find in the entire metropolitan area!
